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nationalities in the People’s Republic of China are equal.” In Article 19 China promotes education “The state develops educational facilities of various types, in order to wipe out illiteracy and provide political, cultural, scientific, technical, and professional education for workers, peasants, state functionaries, and other working people.” Throughout China’s Constitution it covers providing medical and health services, family planning, laws to protect the people and the environment. The people of China take the Constitution as the basic norm of conduct (ICL- China- Constitution, 1988). The laws in the U.S. are about protecting and keeping the rights of the people. Freedom of speech, religion, to bear arms, and the press are only a few of the precious rights that

Americans have. These laws are kept and protected by the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Many of the great programs created by the U.S. Government were established many years ago. The people of the U.S. are privileged to have Social Security, Medicaid, Government loans, educational assistance and many more government programs. The Federal Republic of the United States offers a land of freedom and opportunity to all people. The population of a country can give a clue as to how a society functions in the way that it does. The population of China as of 1998 was 1.248101 billion. The Chinese birth rate was 16.30 million and death rate 6.50 million as of 1998. The average lifespan of Chinese people is 70.8 years (National Day Special, 1999) In the U.S. the

population is 260,650,000 million people. In 1998 birth rates were listed at 3,944,046 million and death rates were 470.8 per 1,000 population. According to U.S. Vital Statistics life expectancy reached a record high of 76.7 years (APA News Release, 1999). The information that has been provided about the countries of China and the U.S. clearly shows that cultures are different based on many things. People’s values, beliefs, ideas, and norms dictate how and what their culture will be and how others perceive it. To be informed, educated and aware that there are differences from culture to culture could possibly help unite nations and societies. The biggest difference I see about these two countries is the order of their priorities. China puts family and religion first in

everything and the U.S. seems to have this last on their list. It seems that this has caused society to have no morals and conscious about the ugly things that happen in the United States. References Ebrey, B. P., (1996). Cambridge Illustrated History China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. National Day Special: 50 years a look at China (1999). Retrieved March 21, 2001, from the World Wide Web: http://english.peopledaily.com. Chinatown-online is a wonderful site with an abundance of information about China. (http://www.chinatown-online.com). Henslin, J. M., (1999). Sociology A Down-to-Earth Approach (4th ed.). Massachusetts: Allyn and Bacon. Education for Children: (1999). Retrieved March 21, 2001, from the World Wide Web:

http://chineseculture.about.com/culture/chineseculture/l…/blskids4.htm?terms=chinese+educatio Thinkquest Team, (1998) . Destiny, the Culture of China: http://library.thinkquest.org/20443/culture.html ICL Document, (1988) . ICL- China Constitution: Retrieved MarcH37, 2001 from the World Wide Web: http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/law/ch00000_.html American academy of Pediatrics (AAP), (1999). US Vital Statistics show Death Rates down, Birth Rates up: http://www.aapaorg/advocacy/archives/decvital.htm