1.2 The Definition of Campus Culture

The same with that of culture, the concept of campus culture is also difficult to define. But with discussions on the meaning of culture as foundation, it is much easier to interpret that of campus culture, namely: campus culture refers to the community spirit and its accompanying carriers that are developed in the campus life and practical activities of the major body of the school, including students, faculty and administrators. The community spirit means the ideologies and values that the students and teachers cultivate in their school life. As these ideologies and values are manifested by their behaviors and the languages they use, such languages, behaviors, and the system that conducts these behaviors are all the carriers of campus culture.

Campus can be compared to the sacred hall of social culture. It is an important position for the construction of spiritual civilization in the whole society. And this is why campus culture is said to be an important part of the social culture. It comes from the social culture, and is a part of it. It is the refraction and reflection of social culture. Construction of university campus culture is of vital importance in the process of constructing harmonious society. So strengthening the construction of campus culture in constructing harmonious society is of great significance. At the same time, campus culture is an important component of moral education. The main bodies of campus culture are the academic staff, and the giant space of it is the broad campus. It is characterized by a specific campus lifestyle and spirit and always affects the personal values, feelings and beliefs of each staff. With a clear oriented ideological and political education goal, campus culture is an important form of ideological and political education in colleges and universities. It is one of the most important carriers of ideological and political education in colleges and universities. Because of the different social and educational systems, the constructions of Chinese and American campus culture have different characteristics. Especially in recent years, the American higher education is growing rapidly. Fully developed market economy, inclusive system of various nationalities-hybrid cultures as well as a high degree of thinking freedom and academic freedom have not only contributed to a unique education model of the United States, but also made the American campus culture different from that of China in terms of tangible culture, institutional culture and even intangible culture.源'自:优尔`!论~文'网www.youerw.com

This paper emphasizes on the analysis of the cultural differences between the university campuses in both China and the United States as well as the reflections on differences between Chinese and American culture, and hopes that the two countries could learn from each other and draw lessons as possible as they can from each other's campus culture to strength their own construction of college campus culture and then achieve mastery through a comprehensive comparison to promote the development of university campus culture.

2. The Comparison between Chinese and American Campus Culture

Due to the differences in economy, traditional cultures and social values, there is a great gap between Chinese and American campus culture. And this part will compare the two campus cultures mainly from the following aspects: tangible campus culture, institutional campus culture and intangible campus culture.