第二篇，
Change the world? Change Ourselves
Good evening, honorable judges, ladies and gentlemen.It’s my great pleasure to stand here to present my speech—Change the World, Change Ourselves.
It’s noticable that western holidays are becoming
increasingly popular day by day, while chinese traditional festivals are being somewhat neglected.Not long before about 10 Doctors in Beijing university and Qinghua unversity announced that we should reject the invasion of western
holidays ,because they regard western holidays as an challenge against our traditional festivals and culture.
Frankly speaking, I don’t quite agree with them.Indeed, we should never neglect or even discard our traditonal festivals as China boasts a brilliant history and splendid traditions.(examples).But why can’t we absorb the meaningful western holidays and culture.
There are obvious reasons why some western holidays are so popular in China.On the one hand, some of the western holidays which we Chinese don’t have are reasonable and meaningful,
such as Father’s Day and April Fool’s Day etc.On the other hand,the prevalence of globalization enables western culture to prevail in China.Overwhelmed by such a trend,Chinese unconsiciously get involved in western holidays and culture.With the further development of the whole world, the cultural communication between different countries and nations becomes faster and more and more important.We are indeed from different nations, but we are the citizens of the same world, so the outstanding culture of different nations is the commom wealth of everyone on the earth.The only way for us to protect our traditional culture is to reject the foreign culture? The answer is definitely no.What we ought to do is to spare no effort to educate Chinese to get to know and treasure our splendid traditions instead of rejecting foreign culture.Only by educating can we set our confidence and belief towards our culture.Only by educating can we preserve and promote the wealth that our ancesters left for us.
At last I’d like to share a famouse saying of Gandhi with all of you ,that is:If you want to change the world, then you must change yourself first.”
第三篇，
Goodmoring ladies and gentalmen, I am very gald to stand here to have my speech.
Global Citizenship begins at home.Do you know what is the connotation of the Global Citizenship ? To be honest I don’t understand the exactly meaning of the sentence ,so only can I explain it simply .Global Citizenship ,in my opinion ,is not something in word only ,but a kind of responsibility and undertaking ,a way of behaving and thinking .So Global citizenship begins at home ,with a commitment to live responsibility ,to regard all human begins as fellow
citizens ,and to be proactive in seeking the common good.
For us university students ,usually we are busy with exams or focusing on the incidents in daily life .We hardly pay attention to the global iues.However , as university students ,we should take the responsibility to think about them ,think about the life around us.
The world develops quickly, but it wandered from the path it should be.Peace and development have become eential iues.
Peace lays a foundation to development.But because of the development, social problems and environmental problems have become serious global problems.Over-population makes us ask for more resources from the limited ones.It causes natural resources fearfully scarce.If we keep on doing so, we will of course lose our reliable living space at last.
Apart from the environment we had broke at home ,we Chinese also have no sense to protect it when traveling abroad.
Therefore Chinese travelers’ behaviors in foreign countries have made the native intolerable .And the foreigners have the bad influence about our country.
So I think the sentence of Global Citizenship begins at home means that everyone should be the global citizen ,should take the responsibility to protect our mother land .Global
citizenship begins at home ,let we do it through the children and the parents ,through the school and the society, thou the government .There’s an old saying : Action speaks louder than
words.Let’s act now .Thank you all attention.
