象形文化: Chinese high school students don't have to memorize thousands of thousands new words in order to be able to enter college. By the time they enter the middle school, you've already mastered almost all the words they need for the rest of their lives.
字母文化: Now US high school students need to learn 20000-30000 words to pass SAT, 40000-60000 to pass GRE. English is ever expanding in this information exploring world. At present, a common English dictionary has about 1 million words, what do you think it will have in 20, 30, 50 years. It may come to the point that a person's entire life won't be enough to learn all the words he or she needs to communicate with the rest of his or her world.
Chinese combines old words to express new meanings.
English creates new words to meet the needs of new meanings.
Another good thing about Chinese is that, you took a glimpse of a page, you understand generally what the page means. One has to read entire page to get the main idea if it is written in English.