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发表于 2004-10-17 02:18:42
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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."
政府必须确保给予主要城市发展所需的财政支持,因为一个国家的文化传统主要发源于并保留在城市中。
立场:不完全同意。大城市作为政治经济文化的中心具有极其重要的意义,但是农村和一些中小城市一样具有保存文化的作用,而且作为主要城市,他们已经在全球花的过程中丧失了很多的个性,在保存文化方面起的作用可能远远没有那些小城市和农村大。
1,让步:政府当然应该给与大城市以财政支持——政治,经济,科技和现代文化的中心。
2,转折:但是受到全球化浪潮的影响,一些大城市已经逐渐得失去了自己的特色,在保存文化产同方面的作用被削弱了。
3,反倒是一些小城市和农村,保存了自己的特色和文化传统。
所以,应该综合考虑。
Should governments ensure their major cities receive the financial support they need? In my point of view, the answer is definitely positive. Whereas, is it true as the author asserts that a nation's traditions are preserved and generated primarily in these cities? I cannot agree with the author this time.
It is well known that major cities, as the centers of politics, economics, science and technology, and modern culture, play the indispensable role in a nation, which makes them have priority when the government distributes financial supports. Every nation must have some major cities, for example, Beijing and Shanghai in China, New York and Washington in the United States. Such major cities not only are the centers in its nation, but also some important parts of the whole world. Most of the political, cultural and commercial communications are fulfilled in those cities and most of the competitions between different nations also come on in these cities. In a certain degree, these major cities are the symbols of their nations, whose degree of thriving will influent the prosperous of the whole nation. Hence, it is easily to understand that why nations must ensure those cities enough financial support.
However, as for the preserving and generating a nation's cultural traditions, I have to say that those major cities are not so important as the author thinks. Although those major cities having long history used to generate some resplendent cultures, with the development of the globalization of the whole world, they are inevitably involved into such progress that may lead to the unfortunate losing of their precious historical relics. Beijing is a case in point. In order to accelerate the pace of modernization and globalization, many traditional domiciles and old-line buildings of the old Beijing are pulled down for leaving more space of modern exploiture. In addition, facing with the intense impact of foreign culture, more and more Chinese youth turn their interests to the exotic cultures such as English songs and Japanese and Korea films, while look the traditions as some things so-called "past-time". If such condition keeps a long time, people can imagine the ultimate lost of tradition. A famous Chinese writer, Long Yingtai used to mention this problem in some of her articles for provoking the awareness of people and government to this dangerous inclination. So the major cities although have many merits in propelling nation’s thriving, they have also some defects cannot be ignored in preserving traditional cultures.
On the contrary, some smaller cities and rural areas may offset the defection of those major cities in their generation and preservation of cultural traditions. On the one hand, because of comparatively less communication with outsides, these places may pertain their own characters more easily. For instance, some rural areas still have their ancient ceremonies in celebrating some traditional festivals. I ever traveled in a little town in the south of China, people there still kept some habits of marriage coming down form their precedents and have some archaic monument for remembering some heroes of their clan. On the other hand, some cultural traditions are born from these places at all. As far as I know, many traditional cultures of China are originated from the basin of the Yellow River, along which many of the cities are not the major cities. Nevertheless, the actual condition is that, because of scarcity of necessary financial support, some of the relics there are facing with the destiny of distinction. Therefore nation should also think of these cities for their considerable contribution in the preserving and generating of traditional culture.
In conclusion, because of their absolutely important status in a nation, the major cities have sufficient reasons to get the financial support of the government. But for the better reservation of cultural traditions, government should also consider of the smaller cities and rural areas. |
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