【ineffable】第二次作业，ISSUE207, by xiaxiaobing，请组员跟帖

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207"Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are."


The speaker asserts that rituals and ceremonies help define a culture to maintain the sense of who we are. I agree insofar that the rituals and ceremonies are past from generations to generations, which can represent the conventional tradition of the culture that gradually formed through history. However, with world-wide communication, some rituals and ceremonies become universal so as to lose the function of identifying a culture. Moreover, the approaches to maintain the sense of who we are go far beyond that.

To begin with, the rituals and ceremonies can manifest the tradition of societies and groups of people, which can be expected to identify the culture. For example, the traditional ceremony of pouring water to each other to wish a good luck of Dai minority in China, is originated from an old legend that help to identify themselves. With the globalization, many minorities use the rituals and ceremonies to identify its culture, which is the most efficient way to maintain their sense of identity. Furthermore, rituals and ceremonies are more efficient tools for religions to identify themselves, such as the rituals of not eating meat of Buddhism, and the pray in church of Christians.

Unfortunately, many rituals and ceremonies disappeared or lost its traits through the increasing international communication, and therefore the function of which to identify cultures is also gone with the wind. This point can be appropriately proved by the example of the ceremony of the wedding. At the beginning, the western people would like to wear the white wedding dress to have its ceremonies in the church, because the white means purity in their cultures, while the Chinese people would prefer to dress red, and have the ceremonies at home, which they believed would bring bless to the new couple. However, currently, the people would choose to wear white dress to have their own weddings in the world wide scales. Thus, this ceremony has lost its function to identify a culture.

In this case, rituals and ceremonies are not sufficient to identify a culture, which enforced us to take advantage of other approaches to identify ourselves. For instance, the ideas of C, a famous ancient Chinese social philosopher and educator, have exert a great impact in the history of China, since it is used by the numerous emperors to organize its country. Even society develops, we have more advanced ideas to direct our behaviors and personal values, however, an increasing trend to date back to that idea appeared in China, which is aiming at identify our cultures. It has set a moral standard for the people to abide by in a long period of time in China. Although its prosperity has fade off, however, people can still find some virtue to help identify themselves.

In conclusion, I agree with the speaker that rituals and ceremonies help define a culture, especially for those minorities and religions. However, with globalization, many ceremonies have
lost their trait so as not be able to identify the culture. Furthermore, in the current society, rituals and ceremonies are not the only approach for us to identify our selves, for we can find a myriad of other approaches such as the ancient philosophy.

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The speaker asserts that rituals and ceremonies help define a culture to maintain the sense of who we are. I agree insofar that the rituals and ceremonies are past from generations to generations, which can represent the conventional tradition of the culture that gradually formed through history. However, with world-wide communication, some rituals and ceremonies become universal so as to lose the function of identifying a culture.观点不错 Moreover, the approaches to maintain the sense of who we are go far beyond that.

To begin with, the rituals and ceremonies can manifest the tradition of societies and groups of people, which can be expected to identify the culture. For example, the traditional ceremony of pouring water to each other to wish a good luck of Dai minority in China, is originated from an old legend that help to identify themselves. With the globalization, many minorities use the rituals and ceremonies to identify its culture, which is the most efficient way to maintain their sense of identity. Furthermore, rituals and ceremonies are more efficient tools for religions to identify themselves, such as the rituals of not eating meat of Buddhism, and the pray in church of Christians.举例（包括下文）中国例子太多了，最好能有点西方的例子

Unfortunately, many rituals and ceremonies disappeared or lost its traits through the increasing international communication, and therefore the function of which to identify cultures is also gone with the wind. This point can be appropriately proved by the example of the ceremony of the wedding. At the beginning, the western people would like to wear the white wedding dress to have its ceremonies in the church, because the white means purity in their cultures, while the Chinese people would prefer to dress red, and have the ceremonies at home, which they believed would bring bless to the new couple. However, currently, the people would choose to wear white dress to have their own weddings in the world wide scales. Thus, this ceremony has lost its function to identify a culture.

In this case, rituals and ceremonies are not sufficient to identify a culture, which enforced us to take advantage of other approaches to identify ourselves. For instance, the ideas of C, a famous ancient Chinese social philosopher and educator, have exert a great impact in the history of China, since it is used by the numerous emperors to organize its country. Even society develops, we have more advanced ideas to direct our behaviors and personal values, however, an increasing trend to date back to that idea appeared in China, which is aiming at identify our cultures. It has set a moral standard for the people to
abide by
in a long period of time in China. Although its prosperity has fade off, however, people can still find some virtue to help identify themselves.孔子的例子是否偏离ritual and ceremony范畴？

In conclusion, I agree with the speaker that rituals and ceremonies help define a culture, especially for those minorities and religions. However, with globalization, many ceremonies have
lost their trait so as not be able to identify the culture. Furthermore, in the current society, rituals and ceremonies are not the only approach for us to identify our selves, for we can find a myriad of other approaches such as the ancient philosophy.