Decreasing Chinese Cultural Competence Level During COVID-19 and Ways to Better the Situation
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.399How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Cultural Competence, Weibo, COVID-19
- Abstract
In the following study analyzing the change in Chinese Weibo users’ cultural competence before and after exposure to Western responses Chinese media transcribes as Weibo posts, six events were selected with their top 30 most-liked comments categorized according to the code of cultural competence created through sampling previous research. The decrease in the cultural competence of Chinese Weibo users was quantified, and a suggestion of using entertainment, more specifically movies, to deepen the level of cross-cultural skills and competence was subsequently presented. Providing content analysis of the three top-grossing movies in China and qualitatively analyzing the corresponding movie reviews for each film from foreign audiences, our research demonstrates the extent of Chinese cultural competence and evaluates the degree of cultural competence the commentaries possess. With the correlation between movies and the viewers’ cultural competence proved by evidence and knowledge of primary reasons for such cross-cultural respect and understanding, we proposed the conclusion with several suggestions to improve the decreased level of cultural competence in China during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Danyi Yu AU - Lujing Rui AU - Yihan Jia AU - Yuxin Feng PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/17 TI - Decreasing Chinese Cultural Competence Level During COVID-19 and Ways to Better the Situation BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 83 EP - 94 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.399 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.399 ID - Yu2020 ER -