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发表于 2004-3-28 10:46:44
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上午限时写得,差一点没写完。
贴到words上看,拼写错了不少~
麻烦大家看看ts,把握一下大方向就好了,语言的东西估计也没时间纠了,谢谢~
10"Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive, because it is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated."
Whether major cities should received the financial support from the government? The speaker in the title statement claims so, in that he believes that it is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated. While it is true that there are some cities owning complete and well-preserved cultural traditions, I strongly suggest government fund more on rural areas where such kind of financial support is necessary and indispensable for the local cultural as well as for the local artists.
Admittedly, there is no doubt that some cities have long histories and are rich in their cultural heritage, yet such cities have the ability and power to support themselves, for example through attracting business, developing tourism, etc, there are so many ways for these cities survive and boom that they do not need the financial support from government. A case in point is Beijing, the capital and center of culture as well as politics, who is famous for its historic culture and traditional arts such as Peking Opera. Nevertheless, Beijing receives little financial support from government, since Beijing could attract tourists all over the world and attract many foreign company to invest here, it does not necessarily accept the financial support, or sometimes, even support the government from the annual income. In this sense, major cities do not need the financial support from the government.
In addition, it is also true that not all the major cities are well-preserved in traditional culture due to the strong impact of globalization. As we all known, many cities look quite the same: full of skyscrapers, automobiles, fast food restaurants, and of course the busy people. As far as I am concerned, I have ever been to Tokyo, and Seoul, except by speaking different language of their citizens, I found no big cultural discrepancy between the two and have good reason to doubt whether the varied cultures preserved well in such big cities, and if such cultural traditions is on the verge of extinction in major cities, how could government preserve and protect such cultural treasures simply by funding and giving financial support to major cities?
In fact, it is just in some rural areas that a nation's culture tradition is well preserved and intact, because the traditional life style and local culture are not, or less, ruined by the process of globalization. Not only does folk music still widespread, but also many handicraft arts are popular in small towns or rural areas, such as embroidery. Such local culture and arts are big treasures, without which a country or a nation will lose its characteristics as well as features and cannot be distinguished with other nations. Suppose the mere cultural difference is eliminated, the separation of a nation or a country makes no sense. Besides, many folk musicians and handicraft artists in the rural areas, now suffer from the lack of money, if government could not give them financial support in order to encourage them continue their traditional skills, maybe, one day, such culture tradition will disappear from the world.
To sum up, I strongly believe that government should fund more and give support to rural areas, where is most urgent in need of such money. After all, we are reluctant to see a nation without its own cultural tradition. Only with more concern to such big treasures--cultural tradition could a nation achieve success in the long run. |
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