Exploring the Impacts of Cultural Globalization on Cultural Awareness/ Values and English Writing in Chinese Context

This article explores the impacts of cultural globalization on the cultural awareness and orientation of cultural values among educated Chinese young people and on English writing of Chinese college students. It demonstrates that, while making fast achievements in its economy in the process of globalization, China has also gone through great changes in its national culture in the areas of traditional cultural values, multicultural awareness, and English education since the historical reform of 1978. One noticeable impact of cultural globalization on Chinese society is the phenomenon that many Chinese educated youths have become more orientated toward individualism and that Chinese college students have gained stronger intercultural awareness, thanks to university teaching practices that focus on this awareness. Finally, the author argues that the practice of teaching English as the dominant foreign language in Chinese universities and high schools during this period of cultural globalization has contributed to the findings that Chinese college students have learned a variety of rhetorical patterns from both Chinese and English rhetoric, in particular, that they seem to prefer a deductive organizational pattern in their English writing.