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发表于 2005-3-29 17:53:34
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Government 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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In an era of globalization, country all over the world is becoming more and more technologically advanced and less geographically isolated. Under this trend, preservation of a nation's unique cultural traditions has become one of the urgent concerns to almost every country. The speaker argues that it is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated, thus their major cities should be provided with government funds in order to thrive. As far as I am concerned, however, major cities indeed play an important role with regard to cultural traditions, but several other dimensions of the mentioned statement should be examined in a deeper level.
Generally speaking, major cities are the most possible places where cultural traditions are generated and protected. Just think about how these cities came into being. From thousands years old cities like Beijing and Athens, to modern flourishing cities such as New York and Toronto, city emerged as a cultural solution to a various kind of problems in religion, economy, agricultural and so on. In this years-taking process, beliefs, action, thought, customs have formed and evolved simultaneously. Respect for the old, for example, initially accompanied the fact that the old, once young and strong, devoted much of their life to the construction of the city. On the other hand, it is obvious that cities, especially major cities, can provide the stability needed for cultural traditions' healthy development. Only when a society is under a relatively stable order can its members spend part of their time and fruit, derived from economical activities, in tradition preservation.
Since there is no advantage without disadvantage, cities, especially those in postindustrial countries, are putting their cultural traditions into a vulnerable state. In major cities, no matter whether they are Western or Eastern ones, people here and there drink coca-cola, listen to Hip-pop, wear T-shirts that have names of American cities and professional sport teams, use instant messages and e-mails. Numerous ceremonies and religion rituals give their way to the rapid pace of modern life. Ironically, there is a tendency that the more one is educated and the broader his/her horizon is, the further they are brought away from their particular inherited cultural traditions. What is even worse, while convenient transportation and diverse groups of people enable a city to generate new cultural traditions, they are in turns making it difficult for people to preserve them: when one leaves a city because of marriage or better job opportunity, they bring something traditional away.
Although cultural traditions are primarily preserved and generated in major cities, does it mean that only big cities deserve government funds? Should the financial support be used to solve other city problems? Are there any other measures needed besides financial support to promise cultural prosperity of a city? In some hunting and gathering societies, for example, dance movements that imitate the movements of animals show people's desire to control those animals. More commonly, every nation has her weddings and funerals exercised with particular etiquette. Both the dance movements and etiquette may be abandoned by people on their road to the modern cities. As a consequence, we can only turn to small or rural areas for their existence. Another problem worth considering is the living standards of people in those major cities. In cities where the employment rate is low and its people are still struggling for their food and rent, it is irrational or even impossible for the government to support tradition preservations. Even if the governments are free of such concerns, sometimes other policies should be combined with money to fully activate cultural traditions.
To sum up, major cities have their innate advantages and inclination to generate and protect cultural traditions, although now these advantages are diminishing with the globalization and technology development. At the same time, cultural traditions also exist in small areas, which deserve our attention and support with no less importance. What is more, in some circumstances financial support should go to resolve more urgent problems like property and unemployment. Finally, government funds alone may far from be enough to prosper major cities to the greatest extent.
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