EAST -WEST CULTURAL PASSAGE (2025)

Understanding Different Cultural Patterns or Orientations Between East and West

Rudyard Kipling says in the Ballad of East and West: " East is East, and West is West; and never the twain shall meet. " Yet, he never expected that with the technological development in transportation and communication, the Westerners and Easterners that have quite different cultures respectively would meet so frequently nowadays in international settings. However, in a sense, Kipling is absolutely correct in that people with different cultural patterns (including beliefs, values, attitudes, norms, customs, and material aspects), especially those from East and West, do encounter communication difficulties, breakdowns, misunderstandings and even conflicts and confrontations just because they fail to understand each other in their intercultural communication. The study of intercultural communication is not something new. However, the perspective from which the author probes into the problematic interaction between Easterners and Westerners is something different. In the paper, the author compares some major cultural patterns: high-context communication vs. low-context communication, individualism vs. collectivism, equality vs. hierarchy, and assertiveness vs. interpersonal harmony. Each of these cultural patterns is defined by examples, two opposite patterns are contrasted, and then potential problems are presented, thus making quite obvious the differences between East and West and their possible consequences in the intercultural communication. Understanding these cultural patterns or orientations which underlie most common behavior of the Easterners and Westerners helps us to see beneath the surface to find out why people from East and West act as they do. This discovery may lead us to appreciate the rich diversity and genius that exist in different parts of the globe, avoid potential intercultural problems and become successful communicators in the interaction between East and West.

Exploring Intercultural Differences between East and West throughout Cultural Dimensions and Literature

Annales N - Educatio Nova, 2020

The article explores intercultural differences between East and West throughout cultural dimensions and literature. Already existing sociological research is supplemented with literary one, thus creating a modern way of performing research in the field of interculture. Hofstede's cultural dimensions became the basis of the presented research as well as literary texts originally written in English, whose plot is set in the selected Muslim countries (Iran and Afghanistan).

Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World , 2017

The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacific are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of knowledge production in arts and humanities and, in the future, seem to be able to grow significantly as a major contributor of culture, science and arts to the globalized world. The book will help shed light on what arts and humanities scholars in Asia and the Pacific have done in terms of research and knowledge development, as well as the new frontiers of research that have been explored and opening up, which can connect the two regions with the rest of the globe.

13th Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations: Voyages between the West and the East,Travelers, and New Realities

2023

The Ironies of Comparison: Comparative Literature and the Re-Production of Cultural Difference between East and West

TRANS-, 2006

Crossing Frontiers - Intercultural Perspectives on the Western

2012

Intercultural Masquerades: New Orientalism, New Occidentalism, Old Exoticism

Chapter 19 Exploring Cross-Cultural Boundaries

Handbook of Narrative Inquiry: Mapping a Methodology, 2007

East, West, Best: Cross - Cultural Encounters and Measures

2002

Culture of western and oriental countries

Современные тенденции инновационного развития науки и образования в глобальном мире

Why do representatives of different cultures understand and perceive the world so differently?The most obvious differences are observed in European and Asian ethnic formations.Oriental culture is mostly characterized by contemplation, while Western culture is identified by dynamics where culture should fill human life with new knowledge and beauty. In fact, the differences between two societies are quite stark. One way or another, but Western and Oriental culture enters into a certain conflict situation in contact with each other. Then the differences between cultures are worthy to study thoroughly and draw a line between the differences. Or maybe these are all false beliefs that are no longer valid in modern society?