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147. "Tradition and modernization are incompatible. One must choose between them."
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As is shown in this analysis, the author asserts that one person has to choose between tradition and modernization, because the two are incompatible. However, I could not agree with the author's opinion totally. Although in some conditions, tradition contradicts with modernization, nevertheless, in most situations, the two can coexist in harmony. Here comes my concrete demonstration on this issue.
Admittedly, it is really true that in some circumstances, tradition is incompatible with modernization, which has resulted in many considerable consequences in some aspects of our society. The way of making craftworks can serve as a good example in proving this point. Before the assemble-line was invented, people usually produced those craftworks in their workshops, which were built upon their family members, who made those craftworks one by one in their traditional ways, and at that time, the price of one craftwork was rather high. However, after introducing into the modern assemble-line way of making craftworks, people find that great change has taken place in the industry. As the amount of craftworks is becoming larger and larger, the price of one craftwork is lower and lower as well. Because of the existence of assemble-line technology, any craftsman, who is still producing craftworks in traditional way, will loss the market at last. And hence, in order to make enough money, all the makers will adopt the modern way to produce craftworks in the end. That is the reason why I assert that in some situations tradition and modernization are incompatible.
However, while conceding that in some conditions the two are incompatible, we should also understand that, in most other circumstances, traditions get on very well with modernizations. From the phenomenon happened in the arts field, we can ensure the correctness of my view. We can say that, of all the arts works, there are traditional ones and modern ones. And we also know that both of those works, coming from the two sides of the arts fields, are very popular among all the people in the world. We can hardly perceive any indifference from the masses towards either side of the two. After modern ways of inventing arts are introduced into the realm, we did not notice any unpopular inclination of the classical arts works. There are still a large amount of people favouring the classical arts works. Thus, tradition and modernization can coexist very well in many fields.
Additionally, because of many modernizations are originated from those traditional ones or based on traditions and both of them are of great use to human beings, as a result, we cannot distinguish very clearly between traditions and modernizations. Much progress in the scientific field serves as typical examples in justifying this point of view. For example, the relativity theory of Albert Einstein can be regarded as the modernization in physics, and the classical theory invented by Newton is just the traditional one, however, both of them are of great significance in physics, and we cannot ignore neither of them, especially the traditional theory of Newton, which is much more useful in our daily lives, compared with the modern one by Einstein. Hence, in many situations, our human beings need not and cannot choose between traditions and modernizations.
In summary, from what have been discussed above, we can surely reach a conclusion that in most conditions, traditions and modernizations are not incompatible, and usually we should put importance to both of them. Only in a few situations, they will contradict with each other, and at last only one of them will be left. |
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