Chinese people’s names are differently shaped to the ways in which people’s names are structured in most Western cultures. In Western cultures everyone has given or personal names, which are the names those close to you use. Western people also have family names. Family names are the names that are shared with parents, siblings, and...

Chinese culture is hierarchal. As language and culture reflect each other hierarchy is also found in the Mandarin Chinese language. This is specifically found in the ordering of objects and other things such as time by their size. What this means is that when describing something the largest or most important term or reference will...