issue207 =美丽G程小组=小组第二次作业 by 曦范

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Issue 207   
Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of whom they are.
  Do we need rituals and ceremonies to help us build up the sense of  belonging to the society or the group? In response to this issue, we need to analyse the proposition from a dialectic perspective,investing the nature of truth by critical analysis of concepts and hypotheses. The author conclude his point that rituals and ceremonies help the societies and groups of people to define the culture, the final judgement, in my point of view, should be seen the whole as well as the parts.
  It is a kind of common sense that rituals and ceremonies have the function to preserve culture identity. In the rapidly changing and gradually harmonized world, ones cultural uniqueness may not be so much personal as before. Thus, rituals and ceremonies are regarded as a very important approach to preserve it. Rituals and ceremonies can indeed become “rigmarole,” but something far deeper than repetitive performances makes a ritual both vital and enduring. A good ritual or ceremony is a distillation of wisdom from ages past.
China's traditional ways for celebration, for example, peking opera, dragon-lion dance, can reflect the 5000 years
of history, and tell the stories of ancient glorious events. An outward display of traditional customs and distinct heritage is needed to put the world on notice that each tribe is a distinct and autonomous nation, with its own heritage, values, and ideas.
  However, there must be some other functions of rituals and ceremonies than preserving cultural identity. In fact, the initial purpose of rituals and ceremonies is rooted not in cultural identity but rather superstition and spiritual belief. They were first set up as a way to bound the populace with higher spiritual forces, various divinities. The very act of expression of Dancing, music, drumming, chanting, singing and other ceremonial expressions. Even today, some primitive cultures engaged in ritual primarily for such reasons.
  On the other hand, in order to preserve cultural identity, we can use various ways to achieve it. Beside all the ceremonies, rituals, and even festivals, we can still do a lot. We can demonstrate our distinctiveness through dress , life-style, speech and gesture. To illustrate, Amish, Hasidic Jews, and Africa- Americans set us the examples. What's more, education to young children and adolescents should on board. Because children are easily involve in the fusion of cultural exchange, and mix the personality of their own cultural and other's.
  In sum, from the analyses made above, I strongly commit to the notion that we need to preserve our cultural identity through various methods. Nevertheless, rituals and ceremonies serve a spiritual function as well, which had limited function relating to the preservation of cultural. In a word, this complex issue depends on the case-by-case analysis.

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上次内个谁说稀饭（是这样译吧）姐姐的文\(^o^)/~。。。膜拜下来

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修改晚了，不好意思，本文观点写的含糊，应该观点明确些