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With the drastic development of economy as well as technology, there seems to be more conflict between tradition and modernization. As far as I concerned, they two are inherent interrelated in many cases and could help each other to progress. [40] It is true that sometimes the tradition go against the modernization. There are many examples, such as in the field of human rights, segregation and discrimination which are very common before civil war are totally opposite to modern social values in America now. The unequal situation that women, who were not allowed to vote and could not participate in politics, did not have the same rights as men continues a long time in human history, however, it is entirely different in modern society. （这句有点问题吧）.In the science realm, Earth-centered theory, which Earth was the center of universe, has been replaced by sun-centered system in modern astronomy. Hence, in certain cases, modernization really conflict with tradition, we must throw out the unscientific and unenlightened things of tradition. [125] Oftentimes, so-called modernization is actually an extension or new iteration of tradition, or a variation on it(欠妥，要突出基础与继承之间的关系). This is especially true in culture, majority of our festival like Christmas, which commemorated the birth of Jesus Christ more than 2000 years ago, yet is social and family holiday even in some Asian countries which do not have religion of Christianity. It is a festival of goodwill, a time for family, friends, food and gift-giving（对于这一点，感恩节更能说明问题，美国年轻人很少知道本来是感谢谁）. Another noticeable example is Olympic Games, the game was first held at Olympia in ancient Greece for honoring the Greek god Zeus as far back as 776 BC. Modern Olympics are held in many cities around the world standing for peace and friendship, some 10000? athletes compete in the game and they represent about (present)200 nations. [129] Moreover, in many cases tradition can live in harmony with modernization. In many famous cities, like Paris or Peking, old buildings belonging to royalty in the past make the city more attractive for tourists and stimulate development of locate service industry. In addition, we can enjoy classical opera not only in outstanding art museums? but also by TV, magic performance and acrobatics, which has a long history, has been joined many modern factors as popular music and video technology. All examples indicate that the combination of modernization and tradition could bring some nice effect to our life. [97] By using modern technology, tradition reserves its merit and replaces the old, outdated concepts with new, fashionable ones.(Ts不错，but 例子不典型) （传统保留它的优点并把新的代替老的）（注意有两个动词） To support it, we also to see the festival, nowadays, in Christmas day, people becomes more and more willing to send E-mail to their friends for greeting instead of paper cards they used to do. （paper cards保留它的优点是什么，文字？。。。） In Thanksgiving day, people may use microwave oven to cook a turkey instead of traditional oven, because the microwave oven is more convenient compare with the old one. （traditional oven保留它的优点是什么，想不出。。。） Besides festival, modern technology is widely used in archaeology and the protection of cultural relic as sculptures and painting in Egypt old temples. With the help of modern technology and science, tradition becomes more and more favorable than it used to be. [124][这段炒的比较多]（） （三个例子传统完全不见了，即被代替了）（换例子吧，或这段不要也行） Tradition and modernization both are rooted in the needs of human life and are the means which meet such needs. Tradition leaves excellent inheritance for us and is not an abstract stance beyond change, its vitality lies in its development and renewal. Modernization which has met our needs at a high level should coexist with tradition in many cases. Therefore, both of them can live in harmony, we do not need to discard one of them. [76][这段写得不好] （简洁一点就好） 例子再改改，其他挺好的，加油！！
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