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issue10 又来微笑地接受大家的砖头了
题目
8-10. "Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive, because it is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated."
文章
Do major cities need sufficient financial support to develop? Many people, including me, support this idea. But when someone tells it is because they are the breeding ground and sanctuaries of cultural traditions that money should be invested in, I don’t think it reveals the reason for the fully financial support of major cities.
On the one hand, t is well received that major cities should benefit more from financial investments. Firstly, Most major cities have the born advantage of location, some of them are the hinge of communication and transportation, while others boarder on rivers, seas or Oceans. Therefore, they possess the priority of economy developments. Investing money in cities like these would give us more financial return comparing with that we allocate money to some remote and undeveloped areas--- maybe officials who decide which one will have the financial support, the New York City or a small town in the Rocky Mountains would confirm my viewpoint. Secondly, major cities such as Beijing and Washington are the brain of their countries, so important the role they play in national political life that we can not neglect their requirement of financial support. Suppose that one day Uncle Sam stop to subsidize Washington, what would be the result? Senators would be late for conference deciding the destiny of the country as the road is damaged but could not be repaired without sufficient money; President breaks his leg when walking down the street owing to the same reason mentioned above, and could not work normally for two weeks; no spokesmen would ever stand in front of White House to make a speech, because so shabby the building would be that nobody wants it to be broadcast all over the country, even the world. Maybe it is an extreme example, but the terrible result of we not subsidizing enough money in cities like these should not be neglect by anybody.
One the other hand, though we all agree that the major city should receive enough financial support, that preserving and promoting the cultural traditions might not be taken as the reason. The major cities are sometimes the tomb of cultural traditions and multicultural stew pots rather than a shelter (sanctuary) of them. Major cities, especially those enjoying transportation facilities, are the first to feel the impact internationalization and economy market brought about. When societies have become net profit chaser, most traditions, which are generally believed out of date and over-conservative, are pulled down and substituted by skyscrapers and highways, as well as KFCs and GMs. The only remains of this broad jeopardy might be some ancient structures, on the seeming purpose of preserving the traditions or protection for historical researches, but actually hollowing out the tourists' purses and gathering money for the government to build more modern edifices. Because of these, maintaining the traditions by investing money in these cities would be nothing but swallowed by sheer economy interests.
In sum, many reasons reveal that major cities should receive sufficient financial support, while at the same time the reasons should not embrace anything about cultural preserving and generating. In fact, the more we invest money in major cities, the more economical political interests they would return, and the rapider pace of the distinction of traditions would be. |
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