Abstract
With
the
rapid
development
of
globalization,
intercultural
communication
becomes
increasingly
frequent.
As
a
universal
phenomenon,
privacy
exists
in
every
culture.
Different culture has different attitudes towards privacy and different ways to deal with it,
which leads to cultural crash and conflict unavoidably. Therefore, this thesis is dedicated to
demonstrate the different attitudes of Chinese and westerners towards privacy.
This
thesis
consists
of
three
chapters,
which
mainly
deals
with
the
differences
of
attitude
in
opinion
of
privacy
between
China
and
western
countries.
The
first
chapter
reveals
the
different
orientations
of
privacy,
that
is
collective
privacy
in
China
and
individual
privacy
in
western
countries;
the
second
chapter
presents
different
manifestations of privacy, including physical space in China and p
sychological distance
in