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发表于 2013-12-22 04:29:31 |显示全部楼层

5 Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.
Reason: It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated.

Time: 12:53 pm --2:03pm words: 680

I fundamentally agree with the statement above that government should financially support major cities in order to thrive because most of the cultures and traditions are gathered in cities. Cities normally share a big proportion of population of a country. Cultures and traditions are created by people and defined as ways of people in a certain place thinking, acting and feeling. Thus cities are the beat place to preserve cultural traditions. Cities thrive, cultures and traditions thrive; Cities fade away, cultural traditions fade.

Cultural traditions are divided into two categories: Nonmaterial Cultural Traditions and Material Cultural Traditions. Nonmaterial cultures include arts, music, languages and lifestyles. Material cultures refer architectures, city layout, and etc. Nonmaterial cultural traditions in cities are abundant.

To begin with, traditional lifestyle is best preserved in cities. Each city has its own rhythm of life, which is a good example to represent people's lifestyle in a city. Comparing New York and Suzhou, a medium city in south China, the pace of the city is totally different. One is fast and the other is slow respectively. That indicates the lifestyle--one of the nonmaterial cultural traditions, is different from each other. People in Suzhou enjoy the slow pace of life so they have time to relax themselves and gain inner peace. However people in New York are in a rush all the time seems they 24 hours a day is not enough for them to deal with their business and make money. This cultural tradition is best preserved in those two cities because both cities gained enough financial support form government in order to thrive. If there were no sufficient fund to boost economic in those city, the unemployment rate would be high. People in the city lose their jobs and move out of town. There is going to have no cultures and traditions to talk about for an empty city.

Moreover, another nonmaterial culture is arts. No matter contemporary arts or classic arts, they are perfect to represent a society's culture and cultural traditions. Almost all famous museums and art galleries are in cities such as cosmopolitan museum in New York City and palace museum in Beijing, China. Hundreds to thousands paintings are collected in those museums. Those paintings of course documented the cultural traditions of a nation. Based on a survey carried out by Peking University in 2002, 92% museums are public and funded by government. If a government failed to fund major cities, museums like cosmopolitan museum or palace museum in Beijing has to close. Thus, all of those amazing paintings that stand for a nation or a society's culture would be sealed and mass public would never see them again.

For material culture and traditions, I believe architecture is the most suitable example. Different cities have different architecture styles. Beijing is an old city with a history of more than 1,000 years. The style of buildings in Beijing is unique to other cities in or outside China. As a capital city for six dynasties, the architecture in Beijing gives people a feeling of great and awesome. Colors of traditional building in Beijing are red and yellow, which are colors exclusive for royal members to use. If government cannot give enough financial support to Beijing, for example, people in Beijing have to find their way to make money. Businessmen might build new apartments or office buildings to sell or for rent in order to make money. Many original and traditional buildings represented Beijing's traditional culture must be facing a problem that being destroyed or replaced. The traditional cultures will be destroyed with old buildings.

To sum up, financial support form government is important for cities to thrive. Without financial support, a city is difficult to survive and thrive. However, cities are the foundation of cultural traditions. Thus, cultural traditions cannot be well preserved without funding cities.