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.”
改变世界?改变自己
尊敬的评委,女士们,先生们,晚上好。
我很高兴站在这里向各位报告speech-change世界,改变自己。
很明显,西方节日越来越受欢迎的一天,而中国传统节日被有些被忽视。不久之前大约10医生在北京大学和清华大学宣布,我们应该抵制西方节日的入侵,因为他们认为西方节日是一个挑战对我们的传统节日和文化。
坦率地说,我不太同意他们的观点。事实上,我们不应该忽视甚至抛弃我们的传统节日在中国拥有辉煌的历史和灿烂的传统。(例子)。但是我们为什么不能吸收有意义的西方节日和文化。
显而易见的原因有一些西方节日在中国很受欢迎。一方面,一些西方节日,我们中国没有合理和有意义的,比如父亲节和愚人节等另一方面,全球化的流行使西方文化在中国盛行。被这种趋势,中国unconsiciously参与西方节日和文化。
与整个世界的进一步发展,不同国家和民族之间的文化交流变得更快,越来越重要。我们确实是来自不同国家,但我们是同一个世界的公民,所以不同国家的优秀文化是人民的共同财富,每个人都在地上。为我们唯一的方法来保护我们的传统文化拒绝外国文化吗?答案肯定是否定的。我们应该做的是不遗余力地教育中国了解和珍惜我们灿烂的传统,而不是拒绝外来文化。只有通过教育才能建立我们的信心对我们的文化和信仰。只有通过教育才能保持和促进我们的祖先留给我们的财富。
最后我想与大家分享一个著名说甘地的,那就是:如果你想改变世界,那么你必须先改变自己。”
