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Do rituals and ceremonies the only ways help us define a culture? The speaker contends so. For that matter（好像这种表达不很地道，可用hence,thus,concequantly）, he asserts that without the rituals and ceremonies, we will gradually lose the sense of identity. I agree that one of the purposes of the rituals and ceremonies is to preserve cultural identity. However, the strong sense of identity is not only resulted from the rituals and ceremonies. Without them, many other factors will continue this function.

To begin with, every culture is characterized by a set of rituals and ceremonies. Actually, rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. For example, when it comes to the spring festival, China will come into our mind. By contrast, while referring to the Christmas day and the Thanksgiving day(Day), some western countries such as the USA are the representatives. Besides, the way to celebrate the ceremonies differs with the culture. In Chinese spring festival, the custom to celebrate it is to explode firecracker, make dumpling and enjoy a family get-together. The eldership in the family gives money as a lunar New Year gift to children. In Christmas Day, people will do the Missa to commemorate the Christ. (此句说完后应该再加一句例子与主题的联系会比较好) Moreover, rituals and ceremonies are represent of psychic believes, their hopes and so on. They put people on the way to find the culture identity. for example, the ceremony of the Christmas represent their religion of Christ; the thanksgiving day held(？？？) to thank god for the harvest and health, to commemorate their friendship with Indian; the spring festival of China show a traditional emphasis on the family welfare and an optimist attitude to the future life.

Secondly, although rituals and ceremonies are an essential part of the culture, still, many other factors contribute to the sense of identity such as clothes, native languages, arts and so on. Without rituals and ceremonies, the culture of a country will still be identified. For example, from the behaviors and thoughts, the Chinese are usually quite conservative and modest. By contrast, in the culture of the USA, people usually put more emphasis on candor and are eager to exhibit the ability. When it comes to the clothes, the people wearing clothes such as cheong-sam and some clothes with the bohemia style, respectively, come immediately into our mind, undoubtly, you can figure out where they are from. Thus, the way we think, the things we value, the way we solve problems, detail of our behavior could also help define a culture. moreover, It is culture that makes American open-minded and aggressive and Chinese implicative and modest; and it is culture make there are a lot of artists in France and a lot of philosophers in Germany.（段后再总结一下会比较好）

Thirdly, in the era of rapid social and technological change leading to the modern trends of secularization and globalization, traditional rituals and ceremonies are declining in every culture of the world. Culture exchanges and communications are more frequent than ever before. With this change, the rituals and ceremonies originated from some country are likely to become the culture of the world, in another word, it seems meaningless to say the culture is defined by certain ceremony. For example, the Christmas Day, which represents the culture of western world, is now celebrated by a considerable amount of people from eastern countries. And we can often see people from Japan or South Korea enjoying their Valentine’s Day on television, which is impossible to imagine in the past few centuries.

In sum, although there are no denies that rituals and ceremonies help define a culture in some degree, that to maintain the sense of identity, lacking rituals and ceremonies will lead to lose the sense remains unfounded for without them, more factors will be involved. In fact, some rituals and ceremonies are homogenized through the culture exchange（本段没有和开头相对应啊，少了一些）

总结：

1．             语言还是有点不太流畅

2．             例子有些普遍