Compare And Contrast Hong Kong And Chinese Culture

Compare/Contrast Chinese (HK) culture with another culture. “Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.” (Mencken, n.d.) This shows that culture is always exists in any circumstance. In accordance with different periods, different countries, cultures become different and interactive. Like Hong Kong and Japan, where contain its own distinctive culture, yet influence each other culturally. Although Chinese culture (HK) and Japanese culture differed greatly in cuisine, language and social behaviours, they also contain similarities like religion, collectivist. Geographically, Japan is an island country enjoying the ample aquatic resources attained near coastal area.(Akira, 2017) Hong Kong is an international city with ample import resources around the world. It is clearly that main ingredients from two places are not alike, indeed, cuisine of Japan and Hong Kong are not equal. Basically, dishes in Japan are always raw. For instance, sashimi, one of the featured Japanese main dish, with thinly sliced raw meats, Japanese always dip sashimi with soy sauce and wasabi (japan-guide.com, 2014). However, food in Hong Kong mainly include meats like beef, chicken, pork and duck, which are cooked thoroughly. Hong Kong …show more content…
(KOICHI ,2010) Japanese have used Chinese characters in writing system for a long time, there are differences between Japanese and Chinese language culture. Apart from using Chinese character, Japan also use Hiragana and Katakana to write. To compare with Japan, Hong Kong people mainly use Chinese characters for writing. Pronunciations of Japanese and Chinese are also different, some Japanese single words enunciate polysyllabic, Chinese words only enunciate monosyllabic, in particular, Chinese name “Lee, Siu, Ming”, is monosyllabic, while Japanese name “Hayate, Minato, Yuzuki”, is