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Issue Topic: 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.
The speaker’s claim is actually threefold: (1) major cities of a nation need financial support in order to thrive; (2) governments must make sure that their major cities get enough financial support and flourish; (3) our cultural traditions are preserved and generated in major cities. I disagree all the three points.
Firstly, major cities are themselves the most highly developed areas of a nation. They have convenient traffic systems, modern and fast communicating systems, and most of all, cheap but surfeit well-trained labors. All these advantages attract domestic investments and foreign capitals. In a time of “Global Economic”, those cities that have large amount of money investment will see more economic activities and more chance and fortune. Also, the economic advantages will bring technical and scientific developments. Thus the area can be more flourishing and attract more money investment. This benign economic circular makes it unnecessary for the major cities to be dependent on financial support to thrive.
Secondly, it is the government’s responsibility to maintain the well-being of the whole nation, not only the major cities. Considering all the advantages of the major cities, they have won a priority over other smaller cities to meet the chance of making fortune. Their financial conditions are definitely better than that of the smaller cities whose economic activities are rare. Giving them more financial support will diminish the support to small cities in that a nation has a finite amount of money for all the cities. This partiality will enlarge the economic gap between major cities and smaller cities. Probably make the rich richer and poor, poorer. And poverty spawns illiterate and crime, thus devastate the well-being of the whole society. We can be sure that financially support a primary school in a countryside and make people educated there means much more to the whole nation than providing money for a skyscraper-building scheme in a major city.
Furthermore, a nation’s cultural traditions are more likely to be preserved and generated in towns and countryside rather than in large cities. Our cultures, primarily folklores, folk music and traditional arts, in my point of view, are generated by our ancestors from agriculture society. Most of them spent their whole lives in towns and countryside. Although now metropolitan may be a part of our lives, it is far from being our cultural traditions. For the time of its existence is only a drop in the ocean compared to our whole history. Additionally, major cities are more likely to be affected by alien life styles. The first reason is that foreign investors and visitors often come to the major cities and so bring their customs, for instance, diet habit, dressing style and way of living. The second reason is that local people, either curious or in order to attract more foreign visitors, begin to mimic their life styles. Messed with many foreign customs, it is hard for these cities to keep their own traditional lives. No wonder that one can drink cola, listen to pop music, and watch Hollywood movies in the major cities of every country. Life is uniform in all the major cities of the world. Things are different for the smaller cities and villages. Because they are remote, less foreign visitors reach there. They are less likely to be affected. While major cities maniacally imitating alien life styles, they carefully keep the traditions of a nation. Cultural traditions are bred there, grew there, and now are safely preserved there.
In sum, governments should give due weight to their major cities and smaller towns on the question of financial support. Make the major cities and smaller towns to be flourishing at the same time. Also, we should notice that it is in the countryside where our cultural traditions are truly preserved. In an era that everyone is suffocated in the trend of “global uniform”, only in the countryside can we breathe freely the pristine air of our own culture. |
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