Compare and Contrast: United States & China IMAGE_1645009804

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Sociocultural

Sociocultural

Political

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Similarities

Individualism

Direct Communication (Evason, 2022).

Democratic, Libertarian, Republican, and Green Party

Government type: Constitutional federal republic (United States, 2023).

Legal system is a common law system based on English common law at the federal level (United States, 2023).

Anyone born in the United States receives U.S. citizenship.

Collectivism

Indirect communication (Scroope & Evason, 2017).

Chinese Communist Party

Government type:
Communist party-led state (China, 2023).

Sociocultural

Legal

Political

No citizenship by birth in China

Legal system is civil law influenced by Soviet and continental European civil law systems (China, 2023).

Both countries require everyone to be in agreement before making any decisions

Both U.S and China value and recognize punctuality (Brooks, 2019).

Both China and United States have president and vice president

Both have large military and service age is 18 (Military service age, 2023).

United States and China both have executive, legislative, and judicial branch

Suffrage or the age to vote is 18 years old for both countries (Suffrage, 2023).