Abstract
With China’s development with other countries, no matter inland or on board, it is usual for the Chinese to appear in a banquet. When people take part in a banquet, the decent etiquette can establish people’s confidence; what is more, it also can help many friends. Decent etiquette can cultivate people’s attainment in work and daily life, especially to ladies, if they project themselves decently, then it may make them look more charming. It is known that the banquet etiquette of modern society assimilates and accede the fruit of the ancient. Some are enacted by people through the social action, and the others are behaviors that come from the history. Both of them have been approbated by people. To comply with the etiquette is a kind of respect to others as well as to people themselves. This paper will stress on introducing and analyzing the differences between China and America in banquet etiquette. After writing this essay, the author has improved the refinement, and also understands that how important the decent etiquette is to a Chinese. Besides, this paper can also offer help to those who plan to take a job concerning foreign affairs.
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Hu, S., Zhang, Y., Gao, B., Xie, Z. (2013). Research on Banquet Etiquette of China and America. In: Zhong, Z. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 220. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4844-9_6
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