Compare and Contrast: United States & China
United States
China
Political
Legal
Sociocultural
Sociocultural
Political
Legal
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).