Making Friends
Different nations have different cultures; different cultures produce different concept of making friends; even everybody’s concept of making friends is different as well. ___36.__
First, the Anglo-American people’s concept of making friends is more practical. When they meet strangers for several times, they talk much with one another and they have common interests and hobbies, then they can become friends. They might call one another to exchange greetings, send cards as soon as they become friends in the beginning, while all will disappear into air as time goes by. Perhaps they will meet again a few years later, but they will talk something in the past only.___37. ___
Secondly, the Anglo-American people don’t have the responsibility and obligation for their friends, nor do they have too much expectation and love. ____38.___ However, if he tells the private affairs to you, it doesn’t mean that he will keep the long-term friendship with you. Sometimes you will find that a bunch of people from English-speaking countries go out for dinner, it’s normal for each of them to pay his own share after dinner, but we can’t understand it.
_____39.____ Maybe you help them a lot, but they will call you and exchange cards for greetings only when they return to their own countries. You will find that they have less and less contact with you day by day. You shouldn’t be surprised at this and hate them. In fact, this is the concept of making friends in Anglo-American countries.____40. ___
A. The following Chinese concept of making friends differs from that of the Anglo-American people.
B. Generally speaking, don’t expect too much when you make friends with the Anglo-American friends, nor impose our concept of making friends upon them, or you will have a feeling of being cheated.
C. It seems that a person making friends with someone who has different interests is peculiar.
D. They are not willing to establish a close relationship with others, and they don’t ask the private affairs of one another.
E. The Chinese concept of making friends is different from that of British and American people, which will be introduced briefly in the following.
F. Namely, the friend is a time limit, and the friend here at this time will be replaced by the friend at different time in other places very soon.
G. In their mind, the friend is a time limit.
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