Culture Question:

Cultural differences (in pictures) between German and Chinese People?

 

(posted: Oct. 24,2010)

The following were drawn by Yang Liu (source information at the end):

Yang Liu was born in 1976 in Beijing, China. Since 1990 lives in Germany. She studied at UWE at Bristol, UK and gradueted with Master degree for Design in 2000 at the University of Arts Berlin, with Prof. Holger Matthies, since 1999 she has worked with Derek Birdsall in London, 2000 -2002 with Thomas Manss London and Berlin, 2003 - 2004 Chermayeff & Geismar New York, since 2004 she has established Yang Liu Design in Berlin.

The design of cultural differences. Germans are the blue side, Chinese the red:

1) Complaints (or suggestions)http://static13.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g8390620d980c&690

2) Lifestyle                                              http://static4.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g839066692143&690

3) Punctuality                                             http://static13.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g839068aad49c&690

4) Human network                                             http://static1.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g839069d90900&690

5) Attitudes toward angerhttp://static4.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g83906ad28db3&690

6) Standing in line
http://static15.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g83906bdb3f0e&690

7) Ego                                                                          http://static9.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g83906f8cb978&690

8) Streets on Sundayshttp://static4.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g839071bc2033&690

9) Parties           http://static7.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g8390a147e376&690

10) In restaurants (decibels)http://static4.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g8390a63501d3&690

11) Standard of aesthetic beauty (tan level)http://static15.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g738e77316b6e&690

12) Problem solving
http://static1.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g8390a9948b80&690

13) Three meals a day (hot or cold)http://static10.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g8390ab5ae0c9&690

14) Transportation preferences (1970 and present)http://static8.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g8390aee37e67&690

15) Dailylife                                                                         http://static14.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g8390afd750ad&690

16) Time of showers
http://static13.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g738e783bab0c&690

17) Mood and weatherhttp://static1.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g8390b3a2a8e0&690

18) View of superiorshttp://static10.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g8390b6a98219&690

19) Children                                                                              http://static5.photo.sina.com.cn/middle/5d20abc2g8390b7939744&690

20) Approach to new things
【转】图释德国人和中国人的差异鈥斺斄跹铩抖飨嘤觥
 
21) Travel                                                                                          【转】图释德国人和中国人的差异鈥斺斄跹铩抖飨嘤觥

22) Fashion                                                                            
【转】图释德国人和中国人的差异鈥斺斄跹铩抖飨嘤觥

23) What to drink when you have stomach pains 【转】图释德国人和中国人的差异鈥斺斄跹铩抖飨嘤觥

24) How they imagine the other culture
【转】图释德国人和中国人的差异鈥斺斄跹铩抖飨嘤觥

Sources:

Yang Liu. “The Design of Cultural Difference”, (http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5d20abc20100hkwy.html) 24-Oct-2010

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