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Second English papers Each nation has its own characteristic festivals that reflect the culture of itself.In China, asour country and westerncountries become increasingly closer,more and more chinese accept western culture.However, some western festivals sometimes even more popular than traditional festivals, foreign cultural’s influence should not be underestimated.The main The main group of celebratingwesternfestivals is youth group which takes students as the main force.People celebrate festivals such as Valentine\'s day, mother\'s day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.In fact, because of the Chinese way of thinking, western holidays in China is just popular for Christmas and Valentine\'s day, not all western holidays attract people\'s attention.According to a survey ofCentral China Normal University, many college students know the existence of western festivals, but little of them know about their cultural connotations.In addition to Christmas, respondents
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western festivals’meaning are le than 10%.Referring to the way to celebrating, in General, during the Festival, people send gifts such as flowers and greeting cards.They sing with friends, and bleor send meages to each other;lots of people are going to relax during the festival:shopping, inviting friends to restaurants, dancing, and so on.On the whole, Chinese celebrate western holidays with
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for universality,particularity,blind consumption As the saying goes,1000 readers have 1000 Hamlets in mind.people have different viewson whether Chinese should celebrate western holidays.Some people who are keen on Western festivals, argued that China\'s traditional festivals are too rigidand there are many festivals with feudal thinking.On the contrary,westernfestivalswhich flamboyantand
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freedom.addition, westernholidaysmake people who’re under heavy social preure have a chance to relax.At the same time, some experts believe that the celebration of Western holidays are an inevitable trend of cultural exchanges.Huang Kemin, aSociologistbelieves that celebrating western holidays is aform of cultural communication.In some cases, it’ll fill vacancies inChinese culture.
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that celebratingWestern festivals can enhance the friendship ofclamates and make the claes more solidarity.Duringa festival, Most of the supermarkets and restaurants provide promotions that benefitconsumers, these festivals also has a catalytic role to economic development.Opponents believe thatChina has its own history and local culture for thousands of years, the Western Festival don’t suit China\'s needs for cultural development.Also, due to blind worship,people often losttraditional culture.Celebratingwestern holidayswill shake the traditional culture’tatus in the minds of nationals and endanger the inheritance and development of traditional culture.For example, many young people celebrate Valentine\'s day, but they don\'t knowChinese Lovers’s Day.In addition,owing to the cultural invasion,many countries arewary of foreign holidays .To guarantee Chinese cultural’s independence, western holidays cann’t be allowed to develop freely.At the same time, many people celebrate Western festivals for following the fashion .The effectof cultural exchanges isn’t obvious.In addition, the blind pursuit of consumption and enjoyment causesmoney worship,hedonism and other bad ideas.
Just my personal opinion, we should celebrate western holidays withrational thought, and we shouldn’t lose ourselves.Towards western Festivals, we should take its eence and discard the dregs.For instance,ThanksgivingDaycan be advocated for making our culture advance as it reflects one of Chinese traditional virtues- gratefulne; others, such as Halloween,should be treated calmly because it’s religious.Cultural integration is the trend of the historical development.So we should not implement \"isolationism\".Under the premise of enhancing awarene of traditional culture and revitalizing Chinese culture, we can activelyenter the world that has frequent cultural exchanges.Festivalsare important means of cultural transmiion which host the important cultural.They’re the crystallization of human wisdom.Rich festival lights up our lives, for our life has various colors.Let us take the broad mindand appreciate the colorful festivals!
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