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¡¡¡¡2.2 Personal and Public Relationship¡¡¡¡The result of the globalization of education£¬ business and media environ-ments is naturally leading to the fast increase in personal and public relation-ship of intercultural communication. Take China as an example£¬ some great changes in Mainland have taken place since the reform and opening of China in the past 30 years. Data from CCTV shows that in 1976 there were only 67 of-ficials of foreign affairs in total in American Embassy to China£¬ but in 2008 there are already 1167 officials in total there. In 2013£¬ even in a university of the US£¬ emails to a Mandarin teacher from the US government can be re-ceived£¬ asking her to inform the class that some American students who can speak Chinese fluently would be needed for some positions of the visa officials to China£¬ if they succeed in applying for those positions. Apparently£¬ inter-cultural communication appears a crucial part of orchestrating a solution on many aspects. Meanwhile£¬ friends£¬ colleagues£¬ partners and mixed marriages between one culture and another£¬ produce many problems for us to deal with in these encountering. These intercultural contacts are often synchronous and harmonious£¬ but sometimes are fraught with friction£¬ conflict and misunder-standings as well. Therefore£¬ making a contrast between the American and Chinese in communication to promote the quality and quantity in intercultural communication seems essential to us all.¡¡¡¡2.2.1 Friendship and Colleagues Relationship¡¡¡¡In talking about friendship and colleagues' relationship£¬ Chinese people are publicly recognized as very hospitable. In general£¬ they tend to take great care of their friends or guests and try to help them with everything esp. when their friends and guests visit them. Their hospitality is usually more than a Westerner can understand sometimes. At the same time£¬ they expect others return to some degree too. and receive the same kindness from others when they become guests of theirs. While American people£¬ esp. Northern Ameri-can are trained to feel highly time-stressed and to do things for themselves.¡¡¡¡They would feel uncomfortable when surrounded by people who try to be kind-hearted all the time. They would rather be alone and arrange their time in their own way.so as to take in as many new things as possible in another cul-ture. What they expect is help in need. Therefore£¬ both cultures with their different traditions of hospitality would lead to the expectation of self-reliance versus expectations of companionship and warmth all the time£¬ and Chinese overdone hospitality versus American underdone hospitality. Both will suffer if they can't know where the difference lies. Here is an example worth ourconsideration in learning intercultural communication.¡¡¡¡¡­¡­