Feb 28, 2010

The interesting pictures (Yang Li)

The differences between Western and Eastern are directly showed on these pictures. Two ways of punctuality are not the same. The left one shows the point of the clock, the minute and hour hand point 12. One the right clock, there is arcuate represents 20 minutes around the 12 o'clock. The whole picture means if we make an appointment, the Easterns would come early or late. The Westerns would be on time. It's a good habbit to come on time without waiting.
In my opinion, not all Eastern people prefer to be late. Maybe the situation depend on person's characteristic. Some people don't care of the time. Some people don't pay more attention on calculating the traffic time or probability of accident. For instance, the girl is late on usual when she is dating with a boy. Because the girl pays too much time on dressing and making up to forget the time. The comparison picture cannot display the tipical point which is difference between the Western and Eastern.
The name of " The Child" picture is interesting and attractive. In the Western family, the child hvae equal statues, but in Eastern family, family members take care of the only child. The Eastern family members pay more attention on their child who has more stress when he or she feels uncomfortable. It's beneficial to take care by own when the child grows up. In addition, the political instituation encourage Chinese family only have one child because of the increasing number of population. Therefore the singleton has too much love from their grandparents and parents. The family relationship bwtween the Eastern people is more closely than Westerns.

1 comment:

Leslie said...

Good comments. Both something you agree and disagree.

The generalization to these pictures is same with Begley's article, which also provides a lot of generalization to eastern and western people's thinking way.

Then what you agree and disagree are your assessment to her article and explain why you agree or disagree is make your points more convincing than hers.

You have done a good critique here.

Leslie