These days I’m attending different conferences concerning cultural aspect in international management. This topic is actually quite interesting. Nowadays we all think we are open-minded, we have friends from all over the world using social networks such. Therefore we think we can get along well with anyone regardless of his or her origins, but it’s actually not that right…
I don’t really intend to talk about that, but it reminds me of a Chinese artist called Yang Liu. She is living in Germany since 1990, so she is influenced by both cultures. I saw her work on the web months ago and I spend almost one hour to find it back last night.
Knowing both chinese and western culture she decided to held an exposition about drawings showing cultural differences between Chinese and Westerners. I’ll post some of them here.
Everyday life
On the left part we can see a Westerner on his own and on the right part Chinese holding hands, but this is not about crowd in the streets! We can understand from this picture that western culture is mainly individualistic and that Chinese have a collectivist culture. You can make your own conclusion about it!
Self consideration
Western society is focused on the me but Chinese usually are more concerned by the others. But actually, we can see that this situation is changing in the new generations because of everyday life competition and especially during childhood due to the single child policy.
I’ll pick up funnier pictures next time, I promise! 
– Woods
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