摘 要

随着中美两国之间政治、经济、文化等方面的交流日益频繁，中美两国人民之间的交流也日益密切，但在交流过程中，由于受价值观、历史、文化等诸多因素的影响，对隐私权的理解也存在着较大的差别，摩擦与碰撞时有发生。因此，中美隐私权对比研究对中美跨文化交际有着非常重要的实践意义。本文着重分析了中美隐私差异在实际生活中的具体表现：中美日常人际交往、情感表达中的隐私和空间知觉的隐私，继而从集体主义与个人主义、儒家思想与海洋文化、小农经济与工业经济等方面，对中美隐私差异的深层原因进行分析。最后,文章得出结论,中美隐私差异实质是群体隐私和个人隐私之间的差异,并在此基础上总结中美隐私差异对跨文化交际所带来的启示意义。

关键词：隐私权；文化

ABSTRACT

As with more contact and exchange in Chinese and American politics, economy, culture, etc., there has been increasingly frequent communication between the two people. However, frictions and collisions have been arising due to different understanding of privacy in China and America, which is caused largely by different factors such as values, history, culture, etc. Therefore, this thesis is to focus on comparing and analyzing the privacy between China and America, which is of much help to cross-cultural communication. The paper places emphasis on analyzing the privacy differences in the daily life of China and America. Then, reasons for the privacy differences are explored from cultural, historical and economic aspects. Finally, a conclusion is reached that the essence of the differences of privacy is the difference between group privacy and personal privacy.

Key words: privacy; culture

Chapter One   Introduction
Privacy is based on the right. At the beginning, people yearn for the equality of tangible, but significant private rights created with the development of material production. People request rights and equal treatment. Private rights means a natural person get equality of personality and independence. In the tide of commodity economy, people respect for rights and the awareness of protection is much stronger, every social body needs a relatively loose environment and relatively peaceful mood when engaged in social behavior, so privacy is gaining consensus in many countries around the world.