issue207 飞跃dreams小组第六次作业

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issue207 "Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are."
  
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       I agree with the assertion that rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Yet I think it is hasty to conclude that people’s society or group identity will diminish without them.
       It’s true that through unique rituals and ceremonies, cultures can differ from nation to nation. For example, people believe in Christianity hold their wedding in church where they come for pray every week; while in Chinese Mainland, where most people embrace Buddhism, people usually cerebrate their wedding in their own house and brides must dress in red on that day.
   However, culture is extensive, rituals and ceremonies can help to define it, but they are not able to build the whole of culture. We can identify ourselves through other aspects such as languages, letters, architectures, and so forth, except rituals and ceremonies. It is common knowledge that Tian'anmen Gate and Great Wall symbolize China, while Eiffel tower and Triumphal arch stand for France. We also can judge one person come from Texas or Ohio from his accent as every region has its idiom and pronunciation.
   Even in the digital world today, significant development of science and technology has changed some of the traditional custom, new habitudes help to define the culture instead. In china, the official exam today has taken the place of imperial examination system in the old ages; nevertheless, both of them indicate the same traditional view of the government, that is use more persons with ability to serve the whole society. The eight virtues of knight: humility, honor, sacrifice, valor, compassion, spirituality, honesty, justice; which produced in Europe during the middle age, simply emphasize the gentlemen graces nowadays, but it also preserve the culture of knight.
    In sum, to prevent being assimilated by adventitious culture, we should preserve our unique and proud subculture through rituals and ceremonies. However, ritual and ceremony are not the only mean to identify ourselves.