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发表于 2005-1-14 10:39:27
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Issue10 第二篇。大家多多提提意见吧
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从2005年0月14日9时25分到2005年0月14日10时45分
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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.
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The author asserts that the major cities should receive the financial support they need to thrive for that it is chiefly in cities where a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated. I agree with the speaker that it is necessary to support major cities to survive. Nonetheless I do not think that it is major cities that preserve a nation's cultural traditions. Instead I believe that rural places play a much more important part in preserving a nation's cultural traditions.
Major cities are often not only the economic centers of a nation but also the cultural political even atistic center of a nation, so it is undoubted that a nation should ensure the development of major cities. As we all know, major cities have much more opportunities than other places in a nation to attract the elites of a nation, investment form foreign counties and even the interest of artists who need to feel the pulse of the times to inspire them to create. In this case, major cities have more advantage over other places to thrive and would play a more important role in the taxation of a nation, which is indispensable to ensure a nation advance steadily.Take Beijing as an example. As the capital of China, Beijing enjoys a much faster rate of development in economics than in other parts of China. And when foreign artists choose a place to set exhibition, they would automatically choose Beijing first, as the exhibition in Beijing where is the political center of China can attract more attention from the whole nation than just set up it in Hainan.
However, as the economic globalization in the world, major cities become more and more alike with each other, no matter which nation they are. When we go shopping in the hall, we would find that the commodities in the shop are almost the same. The development in transportation ensures that the products in any places on the Earth reach those major cities as soon as they come out. When you travel in a big cities, you even would find that the style of the architecture appears so much alike each others. As in major cities, whether such buildings are practical in use is the most essential problem against aesthetics and historical value. And the dress of people even look the same, because the program of dressing are always on the television, which lead to the trend in the whole world are exactly the same with such big cities, as Paris New York and Hongkong.
It is rural places where the outside world does not change the dialect, custom, even religion so much as major cities, that preserve our traditions. When the major cities enjoy the rapid development in economics and absorb the tradition of other countries, rural places remain much undeveloped for several reasons. First, the transportation in rural places have not developed as completely as in major cities, which result in that the newest information and products could not reach such places. People in rural places may learn the trend of dress several years later than major cities, especially some villages in China locate in the mountain, where people may not go to town all their life. Secondly, the economy in such rural places is in a undeveloped state which limit the capabilities of buying and selling. People would be easier to prefer to remain the old habits of traditional trading. Thirdly, much more old people would like to live in rural places where the air is much fresher than in big cities, noise caused by vehicles is much less than in major cities and moreover they would have much more friends than in major cities, as people in rural places have more chances to have chat out of yard after meals while people living in major cities often lead a fast life and do not have enough time for just chatting. On psychological level, old people are more likely to preserve the tradition which they have from an early age while young people would like to change their lives with the change of the world.
In sum, I agree with the speaker's opinion that the major cities should be supported by a nation to survive as they always reflect the prosperity of a nation. But in my view, it is rural places that preserve the most of our tradition as reasons I have mentioned above but not major cities. |
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