6、"The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth."
How to understand contemporary culture ? undeniably, different people have different answer from different perspective . the speaker claims that to analyze the trends of the youth is the most effective way , I partly agree with the view because culture defined all knowledge and view at some stage refers not only the view of the youth but also of the adult and the senior .
Firstly , regardless of the change today ,contemporary culture embraces to certain extent what exist forever from some aspects such as tradition and religion . if we only understand the contemporary culture from the trend of the youth ,we will receive a comprehension lack of integrity .for example ,we will accept the truth that in the culture nowadays there is a belief that a coin have two sides . for the youth , thanks to the knowledge they maintained or without experience, they maybe see the good side and not find the bad .take the independence for example , the vast majority of the youth want to do anything by themselves and like to compete with their classmates , meanwhile neglect the important cooperation .in their eyes who can do anything by oneself is the great one and who win something with the help is not the true winner. according with the speaker's view we will get the answer that what do by oneself is more important than cooperation .in fact ,it is equally important both aspects. from that ,we can see that beyond the youth tradition and religion is very useful for understanding the culture .
Secondly , in the contemporary society more than second third of the social member are the adult and the senior whose viewpoint and knowledge contribute to the culture .ignoring their activities understanding the culture is not right at least . as the mainstream of the society ,the adult work at all kinds of position ,develop many knowledge and view to the world ,which flow to the ocean of the culture .to the adult protecting the children and taking good care of the senior is their vital responsibility, which domains important status in the culture . as retired member ,the senior looks after their third generation at home and tells the story to them, advice the children to study hard and be honest and so on ,so that influence the third' view as well as the culture partly .
From what we discusses above, we can conclude that only through the trend of the youth understanding the contemporary culture is very hard to get the all aspect of the culture , for completely understanding the culture ,we should take into account other sphere of the society like the activities of the adult and the senior .
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