Self Reflection Statement
Culture difference is a common phenomenon in the world. When we visit every places, we might encounter lots of kind of cuisines, communication mode, languages…etc. Nevertheless, conflicts, competitions and depressions may derived by Nation due to culture difference, both of them were proud and advocate to their own culture. At the end, Nations can become competitive. In the following information, it shows that the two behaviours of Australian and Indonesian in their academic culture, and here is my understanding.
In fact, there is a huge difference between Eastern and Western culture, which the origins are “Concern” and “Wonder” respectively. “Concern” is about Chinese treat the nature as a respectful organism, they think the nature belongs to every people in the world, that’s why what they are concerning is the safety of the nature, and would not allow anyone to destroy this beautiful scene. Apart from this, Western people think the nature is being unknown and awaiting for someone to explore. They wish to know more about the nature and science is the way that they think they can related to, they rely on statistics to look through the nature which is mostly accurate. And that is they “wonder” about the nature.
In other cases, as an international city of Hong Kong, there are a lot of difference in academic culture. Although the education system in Hong Kong is similar to United Kingdom, the teaching skills is totally different. In UK, the aim of education is to inspire students learning from mistakes, having their critical thinking. However, Spoon-Fed education is the only way as teaching skills in Hong Kong. Memorizing from textbook is the daily work for students, holding books and memorize by rote every morning. They do not know the main reason to learn, just do what teachers ask them to do, simply like a robot.
To sum up, culture