6 cultural differences between China and the US

3. Friends

Chinese people have different meanings to define friends. Just hanging out together time to time is not friendship. Friendship means lifelong friends who feel deeply obligated to give each other whatever help might seem required. Americans always call people they meet friends, so the definition of friends is general and different. There are work friends, playing friends, school friends and drinking friends.

Some students at Jiangsu University in Zhenjiang planted trees with their foreign friends to celebrate the Tree Planting Day on March 12.[Photo/english.jschina.com.cn]