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The arguer claims that to analyze the trend of youth is the most effective way to understand contemporary culture. I do not agree with the claim for the youth is not the fully(full 个人认为“全面的”用complete更好) representative of contemporary culture. As followed below, I will present my point of view from two angles.
First of all, culture is deposited from one generation to another and is not affected by no matter which single generation. As we all know that culture concludes(includes/involves/embraces) so many things such as art, traditions, thinking, and so forth, which is far more than I mentions and hence it is nearly impossible to establish so huge a mansion only by efforts of one generation. (整句话可修改为As we all know, culture that embraces various things such as art, traditions, thinking and so forth, is far more than what I mentioned and …)Take American culture for example, it is well known that the first settlers ](who) step into America come from Britain. Obviously, they are just a group of European who came to live in America and keep the same religious brief, have the same habit, share the similar world view with the ones who are still stay(staying) in Europe. "First Americans" though we call them, their culture, if it could be separated from European culture, is different from contemporary American culture which experience (has experienced) hundreds of years change and (has) mixed with many other nations’ culture. Impossible, as it is, to define American culture according to the people in "May flower", when it comes to the contemporary youth, it is the same – they are only one generation who join the society and feel the culture not long. (Therefore,) The way to understand contemporary culture by examining the trend of youth generation may be questionable.
Second, the youth is not the (complete) representative of our culture (to some extent). The youth shows energy, creativity, ability to the society, however, they are not (necessarily) the mainstream force of the society and the culture which is a composition of the society. In my observation, the middle-age is the main force to construct the world instead of the youth who is lack of (is lacking in) enough experience and profound knowledge to help them accomplish most societal work only by their own strength. Just take a look at the realm of entertainment, which is called the battle of new and old culture, there are many actors and actresses who are the youth while the boss and the director, the real conductor(conductors) of the cultural change, are almost the middle age or elder. Hence, only analyzing the trend of youth is superficial and makes the understanding stays (stay) on the surface instead of realizing the internal force promoting the trend. In this way, analyzing the youth is not a well considered way to understand contemporary culture, let it alone of the most effective way.
Admittedly, analyzing the youth is still helpful to understand the trend of culture. For the youth is the generation (that) belongs to (the) future, and they would become the main body of the society one day with their everyday growth. The appetite of them may be the favor of the whole society next decade. Just think about the development of Rock music which is brought about by the 70s youth who has grown up. Examples like this are abundant in the history, which make it clear that it is a good way to understand the future culture by analyzing the trend of youth.
In sum, in order to understand contemporary culture, we should understand the development of the culture and select the most representative people which(who) are not (limited to) the youth as the speaker claims. Culture is complex for it is mixed with so many things and altered during the long history, therefore it is suitable to study it in various way and put eyes on more group(groups) of people, not only the youth.
这可是我第一次修改别人的文章, 甚至上我第一次在GTER论坛上发帖哦!
所以 修改不当之处 还请多多包涵!
我没有贴我的文章, 一来不知道贴哪里(好丢脸哦:$),二来觉得写得不好...
还有一个问题请教楼主, 你能否帮忙看一下ISSUE的31篇。我自己写了,但是在看参考文章时发现它们对RESEACHES的理解和我不太一样, 难道researches仅仅指科学上的研究,而不包括一些商业方面的吗?
新手上路, 还请多多指教:)
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