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TOPIC: ISSUE130 - "How children are socialized today determines the destiny of society. Unfortunately, we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help bring about a better society."
WORDS: 594          TIME: 01:31:00          DATE: 2010/5/30 18:18:57

I agree with the speaker's assertion that the way children are socialized is the determinant of where our society is going. However, socialization alone cannot determine the destiny of our society. A number of other essential factors, including the education of the young,the moral standards of the society members and so forth, together shape our society.

I want first to make clear about the key concept--socialization. According to my understanding, the process of socializing, or becoming socialized, can be divided into two parts. One is the education and guidance society offers to youngsters, and the other is the establishments of interpersonal ties among them. Both parts play important roles in shaping children's personality, their outlook on value, world and life. Given these facts, we can safely draw the conclusion that once any of the two parts goes in the wrong way, our society suffers and risks going into the dead corner.

Here I would like to cite the Lost Generation as an example. This group of people emerges after World War I in the United States. People belonging to that group are typically characterized by frustration, hopelessness and resistance to the real world, for many of them have gone to the European lands, in hope of fighting for a saint cause, but only to see the dying and suffering caused by war. Here the society abused its guidance to its young, using them as nothing more than killing weapons and this eventually resulted in the pessimism of the generation.

The speaker's second statement also reflects some problems in today's parental guidance on their children. I’d like to take the Chinese parental guidance as an example. In the past decades, China’s economy has emerged tremendously. Contrary to this is the relatively slower pace of the moral development, thus causing a interest-oriented social atmosphere. By the term interest-oriented, I intend to say that I have witnessed countless examples of parents forcing their kids to join different workshops at weekends, even if it actually violates the kids’ will. This phenomenon, at first thought, might be interpreted as experienced parents preparing the young for the future competition, but a second thought reveal the potential harmfulness. If parents, typically regarded as the bridge between their kids and the society ,force their young to do things only for the sake of future interest, they might possibly be telling their children that grown-ups' world is nothing more than getting and protecting your own interest. If every single children grow up in such kind of interested-oriented society, you can hardly expect the society to develop any more.

What's more, for the same reason, the development of interpersonal ties will also be at stake, since the children in such a society will probably develop into indifferent, self-centered adults.If we still adopt this kind of way to raise our kids, we might be expecting a retrogression of our society, whether in the consideration of economies or moralities.

However, the writer is too pessimistic about today's children guidance, and he over-stated the importance of socialization. In my opinion, several other factors also contribute to the growing of a caring, responsible and well-educated citizen. For example, education prepare children with the basic knowledge to understand and make use of the world around them, the morality of a society teaches its children to be caring and responsible, and the complexity and difficulty of today's social problems shows the young that they have to be cooperative, etc.

In sum, socializing is extremely important, because it provides the children with a stage to perform--once the stage is set in the wrong manner, you can hardly expect a nice show .And other factors-including education, the teaching of morality, and the notion that cooperation is indeed important--is like the lightning and music on the stage. What parents and society should do is to make sure that all the elements of a good show is in place, and then just sit down and wait for their young's excellent performance.

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TOPIC: ISSUE130 - "How children are socialized today determines the destiny of society. Unfortunately, we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help bring about a better society."
WORDS: 594          TIME: 01:31:00          DATE: 2010/5/30 18:18:57

I agree with the speaker's assertion that the way children are socialized is the determinant of where our society is going. However, socialization alone cannot determine the destiny of our society. A number of other essential factors, including the education of the young,the moral standards of the society members and so forth, together shape our society.

I want first to make clear about the key concept--socialization. According to my understanding, the process of socializing, or becoming socialized, can be divided into two parts. One is the education and guidance society offers to youngsters,and the other is the establishments of interpersonal ties among them(指代不太清楚). Both parts play important roles in shaping children's personality, their（前面有了children这里不用了吧？） outlook on value, world and life. Given these facts, we can safely draw the conclusion that once any of the two parts goes in the wrong way, our society suffers and risks going into the dead corner.

Here I would like to cite the Lost Generation as an example. This group of people emerges after World War I in the United States. People belonging to that group are typically characterized by frustration, hopelessness and resistance to the real world, for many of them have gone to the European lands, in hope of fighting for a saint cause, but only to see the dying and suffering caused by war. Here the society abused its guidance to its young, using them as nothing more than killing weapons and this eventually resulted in the pessimism of the generation.

The speaker's second statement also reflects some problems in today's parental guidance on their children. I’d like to take the Chinese parental guidance as an example. In the past decades, China’s economy has emerged tremendously. Contrary to this is the relatively slower pace of the moral development, thus causing a interest-oriented social atmosphere. By the term interest-oriented, I intend to say that I have witnessed countless examples of parents forcing their kids to join different workshops at weekends, even if it actually violates the kids’ will. This phenomenon, at first thought, might be interpreted as experienced parents preparing the young for the future competition, but a second thought reveal the potential harmfulness. If parents, typically regarded as the bridge between their kids and the society ,force their young to do things only for the sake of future interest, they might possibly be telling their children that grown-ups' world is nothing more than getting and protecting your own interest. If every single children grow up in such kind of interested-oriented society, you can hardly expect the society to develop any more.

What's more, for the same reason, the development of interpersonal ties will also be at stake, since the children in such a （不需泛指了，有也没错）society will probably develop into indifferent, self-centered adults.If we still adopt this kind of way to raise our kids, we might be expecting a retrogression of our society, whether in the consideration of economies or moralities.

However, the writer is too pessimistic about today's children guidance, and he over-stated the importance of socialization. In my opinion, several other factors also contribute to the growing of a caring, responsible and well-educated citizen. For example, education prepare children with the basic knowledge to understand and make use of the world around them, the morality of a society teaches its children to be caring and responsible, and the complexity and difficulty of today's social problems shows the young that they have to be cooperative, etc.

In sum, socializing is extremely important, because it provides the children with a stage to perform--once the stage is set in the wrong manner, you can hardly expect a nice show .And other factors-including education, the teaching of morality, and the notion that cooperation is indeed important--is like the lightning and music on the stage. What parents and society should do is to make sure that all the elements of a good show is in place, and then just sit down and wait for their young's excellent performance.

全文对演讲者的观点基本支持

1首段让步+转折 提出社会命运由很多因素决定

2 理解socialization的概念为下文铺垫