Issue10 单举北京一个例子可以么？

chengnicoleUID: 2216897

TOPIC: ISSUE10 - "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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Should governments ensure the financial support to their major cities for cultural traditions preservation? Though I recognize the vital role played by the major cities in a nation's development and thriving, I think differently to the speaker’s opinion.

To better understand the issue, we need to start from the foremost position of the major cities and their primary contribution to the country. As we all know that, generally speaking, the major cities usually are the most developed ones in the country, which means there are the cultural, political and economic centers of the nation. Take Beijing in China as an example, a city with long heritage being the capital of many reigns in many dynasties in a more than 5000 years history. With a broad domain and a large population, Beijing is undisputed one of the major cities in China. As the location of the central government, Beijing has much more exposure nowadays to the world for diplomacy, cultural communications and economic cooperation. The most well-known hot topic about Beijing should be the 2008 Olympic Games. The municipal government successfully attained the honorable opportunity to host the games with the advanced facilities, the promising capability, the prosperous commercial environment, the attractions of the splendid Chinese culture, among others. Beijing plays as a window to represent our amazing motherland China to the world, so its thriving is an indispensable part of our nation's development, and also a generator of new cultures and trends as well.

However, I do not think that financial support to the major cities should not be a must for a government. Back to Beijing's case, such a strong and energetic city should and can have the capability to support itself and stimulate the advance of its own. There are many compelling priorities on government funding agenda, which might includes the financial support to build highways to hinterland, to improve the current education situations, to further equip the remote towns with better medical facilities, to offer food and shelter for those unemployed miserable people, and so on. I believe the priority of government funding should be the projects that relate to more pressing social issues rather than those with fine basics and looking for further development. Thus, I cannot agree with the speaker that governments MUST ensure the financial support to the major cities.

Furthermore, a nation's cultural traditions probably are not primarily preserved in the major cities, especially in modern society. Under the globalization and modernization, most major cities in many nations have become more and more similar with a metropolis look, which are accompanied with fewer characteristics including unique and exotic culture and traditions. Though governments can provide financial support to preserve some of the treasurable historical or cultural attractions, the rest metropolitan elements diminished the integrity of those national culture and traditions. Retrospect the old district reconstruction in Beijing, many traditional courtyard houses and bystreets had been torn down in order to pursue the new landscape for a broader highway, or a huge mega mall, or a skyscraper with glass curtain walls. Almost all the current constructions are served to modern life with few conventional customs and elegance. In many countries, the distinctive culture and traditions can only be found in remote area, which are usually towns and counties with poor communication infrastructures. Only if the place is too difficult to be modernized, the heritages can be preserved. In turn, if the funding to preserve the diminishing cultural traditions should be supplied by the government, I would suggest than we should allocate the budget to those outlying areas where our traditions are still there.

On balance, I concede the major cities are very critical in a nation’s development and flourishing, however, funding the major cities will not be a necessity to preserve cultural traditions there since there are not many remains in the metropolises.

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苯石UID: 2169611

个人感觉无论什么情况下, 一个例子都是不够的.

winnie_nnUID: 2208004

北京还是不好吧...