In my opinion, the definition of culture is a group of specific people in an area that works to create their own spiritual wealth, and then handed down from generation to generation. It gradually accumulates and becomes the symbol of a nation. Such as ethics, beliefs, values, and even behavior, which becomes the customs of life which we usually called "The Culture". Typically, when Americans write articles, they prefer to put the key sentence at the beginning of the paragraph in order to directly express the meaning of article to the reader, and to make them clearly understand what the writer wants to say. But in Chinese articles, the topic sentence is usually on the last sentence of the last paragraph, or even sometimes Chinese writers simply do not write it down on the paper, they just let the reader think about it. I think this example shows that there are differences between these two cultures. It means Americans like to be straight, while the Chinese like to have some reservations in mind. Whichever they prefer, there is a big difference between cultures. On the other hand, we can say that this is "culture" because of these differences, if all the cultures of world are the same, and then there is no "culture" to speak of.
Because of the Servicing Learning for Children Center, I have a lot of opportunities to get close to American Children. I still remeber the first impression which they gave me is “crazy”. Because they often shouted loudly while they were playing games and put their hearts and soul completely into the game. Sometimes they made themselves very dirty and even tumbled over the ground. But at that moment, the adults didn’t raise the children from the ground and usually let them pick themselves up and go on playing. Once when I was working at the Children Center, I tried to raise the child who fell down, but to my surprise, he didn’t accept my help. In addition, American adults seldom interfered with their children's game, so children could play with their friends freely and do anything they want. In my view, “Do anything you want” is most admiring place for Chinese children, but usually it’s also far away from them. One of my teachers said to me before I left China: Today we study hard and learn English in order to get a good job so that our children can live as American Children, having the time of their lives. He said that because he had realized that he didn’t want his children to live like us, and our children should do anything they want. Once Jay asked me to his professor party, and the professor comes from China, but his daughter was born in America and living in America. She spoke English fluently and did anything as an American child. Although she looks like a Chinese girl, and except for that, she was a pure American. She just chose anything she enjoys in her life such as clarinet, skiing and Wii—when I was childhood, I never know what I want. Because parents had already told me what I should do. So I didn’t consider this problem until I went abroad. But now, “Do anything I want and go my way” always haunts my mind.
