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Rituals and ceremonies usually be accepted to symbolize a society or group---without them, will the sense of the society or group diminish themselves? This controversy raises a variety issue about activity, ideology, moral, belief and so forth. I fundamentally agree with the speaker's broad assertion that societies or groups will lost themselves at the lack of rituals and ceremonies. On balance, however, the speaker doesn't necessarily extend the notion of rituals and ceremonies.
Admittedly, any society or group whose members perceive their common identity has a distinctive culture. During the creation of the culture, rituals and ceremonies is indispensable. In the past centuries, especially before medieval, rituals and ceremonies has closely to do with the popularity of religion and the controlling of emperor all over the world. In European, Christianism has the overwhelming power that constrains people's idea, lifestyle, and dress. In Asian, Buddhism as the main tool of government to refrain the mind of citizens and any ceremony has been unified by sovereignty. Under this circumstance, the cardinal culture engendered by artists serves to the rituals and ceremonies. Therefore, different ritual and ceremony improves miscellaneous culture. That is why I agree with the speaker that rituals and ceremonies help define a culture.
With the development of technology and industry, the more knowledge about nature in which we are living people know, the more enervating the importance of rituals and ceremonies becomes. Train, plane easily carries people to whatever people want to go and Internet provide plentiful information whatever you want to find. In the process of communicating, culture merges ineluctably. Lots of rituals or ceremonies disappear or were ignored. China which consist of fifty-six peoples is the typical paragon. Regardless of races, all children go to school and learn same knowledge with unified school uniform and courtesy. Many youth in minority know little about the conventional way of celebrating the events, such as wedding.
Without traditional ritual or ceremony, however, the young also define themselves the relation with some race by the lifestyle, dress, dietary habits. After all, not only can rituals and ceremonies represent the culture, but the emblem, activities and terms show a culture of a group and society. For example, the Chuang, one of the fifty-five peoples, has no distinguished rituals or ceremonies comparing with the Han nationality. But they set themselves apart by their language, the bent of folk singing.
Now, let's pay attention to smaller group. Taking footfall game as an example, there are hundreds of football teams in the world. Any team may identify itself by naming itself and by symbolizing its athletic purpose with some symbol of its prowess, liking a flying hawk.
In final analysis, Ritual and ceremonies indeed help us define a culture. But culture today don't revolve around them and contain more content which applies the effect of binding people together equally to ritual and ceremonies. |
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