Reflective Journal on Chinese Culture

Added on 2021-02-20

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In my perspective, the lecture proved to be extremely beneficial as it increased myknowledge about China, their culture and beliefs. Although, the present day Chinese culture is aperfect blend of old Chinese traditions and Westernized culture but it still has its unique essence.I learned that Chinese people participate in different cultural program and festivities and themedia has played a very important role in shaping the cultural beliefs and values on the people. Ialso got to understand about the Chinese philosophy that mainly focused on individualism,collectivism and nationalism.The individualism theory focuses on the individual strengths and weaknesses and it also helps inanalysing self-worth as it helps a person in becoming much stronger, faster and powerful.The collectivism theory states that it is important to focus on group rather than just focusingoneself and a person must work in group to achieve common goals and objectives effectively andefficiently.Nationalism theory: The nationalism theory promotes the concept of nation first and it isimportant for every individual to give top most priority to their nation and work hard for itsoverall growth and development,I also read about Agricultural civilization in China and it was very surprising for me as Iobserved that there are more than 300 million farmers in the country and it ranks first inproducing rice, wheat, potatoes, tomato, cotton and soybeans. The Chinese have a strong historywhen it comes to agriculture and the country has significantly improved its services over theperiod of years.The New Zealand and China's trade in 2007 was $8.6 billion and in 2017 it increased up to $26.1billion which clearly shows the growth in trade and international relations between both thecountries.The Chinese and Kiwis have a lot in common but at the same time have some differences toolike the people of New Zealand are progressive whereas the people of China are conservative,Kiwis are culturally tolerant which means that they respect and withstand with all the differentcultures and traditions whereas Chinese are culturally inclusive which means that they onlyfollow their own culture and set f traditions.The similarities include that both Chinese and Kiwis are that both are family centred whichmeans that their main priority is family and works comes after family.