篇一：文化差异引起的英文笑话
"txt">日本就是崇尚欧美，谁能讲英语，谁就是老大。日本首相森嘉郎不会英语，但为了表现自己会英语，就叫秘书安排了一套程序，准备在冲绳开政府间合作会议时，见到克林顿用英语问候一下。但是日本人讲英语很糟糕，森喜郎见到克林顿，将How are you!说成了Who are you?，克林顿以为这是森喜郎在跟他幽默：我明明是美国总统，他还不知道吗？他为什么还这么问我？我今天也跟他来个幽默：I am husband of Hilary.（我是希拉里的丈夫），森喜郎不管克林顿怎么说，就忙按照程序回答：Too me.、 Me too.，克林顿想你这个玩笑开得太大了，我老婆怎么变成你老婆了？这在日本就成了个大笑话！2. How would you like your coffee?
在北美生活过的人都知道喝咖啡是北美人必不可少的生活方式，所以满街最多的就是咖啡店。加拿大最著名的咖啡店叫Tim Hortons，到处都是。几乎从早上到晚上总是很多人在里面。第一是他的咖啡价格不贵，第二是他的dounuts 品种多，味道好。很多中国人慢慢的也会养成到咖啡店喝咖啡的习惯。对于第一次来加拿大的人，出于好奇，也会走进去看看，因为一开门，那股特别香的咖啡味道，就诱惑的人想品尝。但是由于咖啡属于西方文化，所以我们很多中国人在学外语的时候，都没有学会如何点咖啡，因此对买咖啡的英语经常听不懂。我就遇到过一次特别好笑的事情。
一次我去Tim Hortons 给我女儿买早餐，在我前边排了两个中国年轻男子。他们点了两杯咖啡。然后售货员笑着问他们：“How would you like your coffee?”
其实这句话的意思是，你想要什么样的咖啡，是不加糖的黑咖啡，还是加糖，还是加奶。但是他们俩没有听懂，就按照在中国学的英文理解，可能认为人家问他们怎么喜欢咖啡。 所以就听其中一个笑着回答：“I like coffee very much.”
那个售货员先一愣，然后依然笑着说：“Yes,our coffee is great.so how would you like it?”
然后这个小伙子依然笑着说：“I like it very very much.”
这个时候，那个售货员猜想他们可能没有听懂，就又问了一句：“would you like some sugar or milk?”
这两个年轻人相互看了一眼，一个说：“No,No,just coffee.”
然后这个售货员就给了他们两杯没有加糖也没有加奶的咖啡。
这两个人一边往外走，一边喝了一口，只听其中一个用东北口音说：“我靠，什么破玩意儿，贼他妈的苦，也不给加点儿糖，还这么多人排队，赶着喝汤药呢。”
我一听，给我笑得嘴咧到脖子后面了都。
3. Where
处处都漂亮
一位外国朋友不知道中国人的“哪里！哪里！”是自谦词。一次
他参加一对年轻华侨的婚礼时，很有礼貌地赞美新娘非常漂亮，一
旁的新郎代新娘说了声：“哪里！哪里！”不料，这位朋友却吓了一大 跳！想不到笼统地赞美，中国人还不过瘾，还需举例说明，于是便用
生硬的中国话说：“头发、眉毛、眼睛、耳朵、鼻子、嘴都漂亮！”结果 引起全场哄堂大笑。
4.
时下苹果公司的爱奉很火，连幼儿园的小朋友都知道。幼儿园的老师教孩子英文。
老师：香蕉怎么说？
小朋友：banana。
老师：桔子怎么说？
小朋友：orange。
老师：苹果呢？
小朋友：iphone.
5.
一个台湾人出国，海关要求打开行李检查，发现有七条内裤，奇怪问原因
台湾人回答：" Sunday、Monday、Tuesday ... Saturday "
官员明白是一天一条。
接着来了个法国人，官员要求打开行李检查发现有五条内裤，奇怪问原因 法国人回答：" Monday、Tuesday、Wednesday、Thursday、Friday " 星期六，日如何？ NO WEAR.
官员明白法国人浪漫，星期六 . 日是不穿的。
接着来了个印度人，检查发现有十二条内裤，
官员大惑不解，忙问如何？
印度人慢悠悠回答：" January、February、March、April ....... "
篇二：英语作文-东西方文化差异 -Cultural differences
class="txt">There are plenty of. people in the world. They come from different countried, have theirown race, belief and way of life. What is more, their culture is different from others'. So,
there is no doubt that cultural difference exist among lots of countries, especially between
eastern and western countries.
Compared with the way of life, eastern people always have a bath in the evening or at
night in order to relax themselves after one-day's hard work while western people take a
bath in the morning. so as to keep freshly for the whole day. In general, it is true,
especially for Chinese people. We, Chinese people would like to take baths at night rather
than in the morning. It is a kind of habits we behave all the time.
Compared with the relationships, differences are as follow: firstly, eastern people like to
make friends, sometimes through their friends, parents, relatives. While western people
behave a little shyly. They do not want to make friends all the time. Secondly, eastern
people would like to hang out with the person they do not know about quite a lot. while
western people just like going out with the person whom they get along well with.
Finally, eastern people have much more friends than western people for their quite
different way of getting along with. their friends. There is no doubt that eastern people
are more outgoing than western people, so I agree with these a lot.
As for way of solving problems, eastern people always deal with things indirectly. They
pay much attention to many things around them, and always work for a long time to solve
the problem. However, western people just go straight the heart of the problem and solve
it directly and efficiently. As far as I am concerned, this difference between eastern and
western people is quite normal and correct. Eastern people, especially Chinese people
care about things around them a lot, they always want to satisfy everyone's need, so that
they spend much more time to solve a problem than western people.
As for way of thinking, people in eastern areas usually think indirectly. They used to
think about the things around them a lot and try to deal with things in a reasonable even
perfect way. However, in comparison with the eastern people, people in the western areas
often think directly. They pay less attention to the things around them and care much
more about themselves. Honestly speaking, I disagree to this.In my opinion, everyone is
special and has their right and obligations to do things. There is no need for us to critise
others and what we should do is to respect their own. decision.
There are a lot of differences between eastern and western culture. These are the symbols
of their own characteristics and we need time to dig out more differences so as to learn
more about them. Most importantly, we must respect their culture firstly!
篇三：中美文化差异英语作文
ulture and American CultureI have been living in China for twenty years. I was born in JiangSu province, and also grew up in there. My family members were from different parts of China. My mom’s hometown is at the Huabei plain which is the north side of The Yellow River. However, my father grew up in Nanjing, the famous city which locates beside the Yangzi River.
Most of people in southern China are used to have rice as their daily main food resource, but northern China mostly has wheat. But no matter which part of China, meat is not the major food for us. Chinese people always believe that rice, wheat, vegetable, fruit are the best for our health. In contrast, meat would give more troubles to our health, for example, heart attack, high blood pressure, and etc.
But people in America, mostly have meat as their food resource. The most important is that they mostly have beef, chicken, shrimp, turkey, instead of pork and lamb. In restaurants, you can easily find hamburger, steak, ribs with a little rice and a piece of bread. I believe that the food style gives American people much more energy than we have. They are much stronger than us. That is the fact!
I have heard of an interesting story about Yao Ming, who is one of the famous NBA player right now. During his first season in NBA, millions of people are attracted by his height and his cute smile. However, he is not strong enough to play NBA game yet! He ever told the reporter that he likes to have soup that his mom makes for him. Soup could not help him, only steak, cheese, butter could make him stronger and gives him more energy. In order to increase his competition, he has to be used to American food style!
“Custom is the great guide of human life”, wrote Scottish philosopher David Hume. Knowing the customs of a country is, in effect, a guide to understanding the soul of that country and its people. As a foreign language leaner, we should know the culture in our target language’s country. Only in this way, we can really learn the language well.
People express their culture through traditions in food, clothing, recreation, and ceremonies; through the education system and institutions of learning, including museums and libraries; and through the arts, encompassing the visual, literary, and performing arts. As a result, we will talk about the differences from some aspects.
First, I will mention the addressing. In China, we will put the family names before our given names, and then in order to express our politeness, we would like to add “sir” or “lady” or their title after the name. On contrast, in America, people would like to put their family names after their given names and first names and they will put Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms, Dr. or
Prof. before their names. It is foremost and first for us to know these differences so that we won’t make misunderstandings.
And then we will talk about time conceptions. In America, their living beat is quite fast, so they consider time is quite precious. So, when they accept an invitation, they would try their best not to be late, but they also don’t go early to the inviters’, as this is considered to be impolite, and it seems to disturb the inviters’ preparation. In China, we should also not be late for the inviters. However, in order to show our thanks and politeness, we would go to the inviters’ house to help them prepare the meals and then we will have a happy time together.
To open a conversation, people in different countries have different ways. In China, when people meet their friends by chance, they will say.” Where are you going?” or “ have you eaten?” and then they will go on talking about other things. But if you do this in Ameri(转自：wWw.DXf5.Com 东星 资源网:文化差异的英语作文)ca, you will be misunderstood that you want to invite him or her. Americans would like to say,” beautiful day, isn’t it?” to open a conversation even sometimes it is raining. It is not because the Americans can predict the weather but for the sake of customs.
Let me come to the aspect of eating. Chopsticks are used for all meals in China. Food is placed at the center of the table and may include more than one type of main dish to be eaten with rice. All the food will be shared by all the persons and won’t be divided into several helps. While in America, they would use forks and knives for their meals. Every person has his own dishes and they won’t share one dish together. They think this is quite hygienic and they will enjoy their meals comfortably. However, what they eat is not so healthy, because they would like to eat a lot of meat and something with high calorie. Maybe it is good for them to obtain more fibers and keep a healthy body.
Finally, I would like to mention something about the difference in marriage. Besides the ceremony for marriage has obvious difference----Americans will hold it in a church, while Chinese will hold it in a hotel inviting their relatives and friends to have dinner----their marriage notion has quite a lot of differences, too.
From all these aspects, we can think of many differences in values, such as the notion of social statues, collectivism and socialism, the treatments to children and so on. In fact, we cannot say which one is right, which one is wrong, as we all know Americans and Chinese are not in the same group, people on the opposite side of the globe can never achieve the thousandth part of the group on the other side of the globe. What we should do is to learn the difference, and then we can really learn the difference well.