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The speaker states that rituals and ceremonies are important in defining a culture, and people will possibly experience a diminished sense of self-identity without them. I concede that rituals and ceremonies are vital factors in the forming and preservation of a culture, however, the speaker overlooks other important elements such as language and music in a culture’s forming process, what’s more, there should be many other functions of rituals and ceremonies besides defining a culture.

Admittedly, rituals and ceremonies can be helpful in defining a culture, especially in the forming process of cultural identity. To support this, we can see no further than rituals and ceremonies of becoming adults in current society. Obviously the adolescents acquired the cultural and social acceptance from the adults' world, through these important rituals. Another example is native Americans, who have been striving for persevering their distinct rituals and ceremonies in their cultural, transmitted their unique culture from generation to generation. To the contrary, we can find evidences that lacking rituals and ceremonies can result in disorders in people's culture identity. The obvious example is contemporary American society, which consists of various groups from all over the world, each with their own culture, and each wants to keep their own identity. Thus the phenomenon that most Americans have difficulties in acquiring their cultural identity is not so surprising, for the fact that there is no unit or format rituals and ceremonies in American society.

However, the speaker overlooks another important element---language, which contributes greatly to the forming and preserving of the culture. We can easily find many cultures which have been extinct since the arrival of Europeans. This is especially true in Australia, where many local ethic minorties gradually lost their own language, finally became an English culture country, with few other cultures existed. It is clear that those cultures dead or dying are largely due to the extinction of their own language. Such examples still happened(occured) and happening in many developing countries, where English is prevailing the native language, along with the invasion of western cultures. Accordingly, we should always recognize the importance of language in the definition of the culture.


Besides, music is another important factor contributing to the definition and generation of a culture. When it comes to the African American culture, we are always surprised and shocked by its unique music styles. During the long history of rooting in American society, it has assimilated many other cultures' elements, and finally developed its distinct culture.


On the other hand, defining a culture is not the only function of rituals and ceremonies. Many historical records revealed that rituals and ceremonies are fairly common in people’s daily life. In the acient days, various rituals and ceremonies are often organized to gather people together, to discuss about some important events, or just to pray for good harvest, or to instill a spirit of religious belief. We can even find them in the war, where rituals and ceremonies usually played a key role in provoking the soldiers’ encouragement and patriotism. Such as the Nazi had ever taken advantages of rituals and ceremonies to stabilize their rule. In short, besides the role in defining a culture, there are still many other functions of rituals and ceremonies.



In sum, while rituals and ceremonies are important factors in defining a culture, another factors, such as language, music, are also of equal importance in the forming and preservation of a culture. In addition, besides defining a culture, rituals and ceremonies can also be used to realize many other goals.

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