外国文化入侵英语作文

外国文化入侵英语作文 篇一:外国文化对中国文化冲击的利与弊英 文 Dose the Prosperity of Foreign Festivals Indicate Collective Cultural Unconsciousness? Recently, some researchers released a joint report. Their paper says that in China, Christmas and other western holidays are becoming more and more popular. For instance, New Year seems to be more important than Spring Festival and more young people choose to celebrate Valentine’s Day than QIXI. July 7th by the lunar calendar(Chinese Valentine’s Day) . All these phenomena indicate the rapid prosperity of foreign festivals in China and researchers claim that they worry that it will lead to collective cultural unconsciousness among Chinese people. Does the prosperity of foreign festival indicate that we have lost our own cultural origin and shall we drive foreign festival out of our lives? My answer is negative if we can treat those foreign festivals properly. Every festival has its historical and cultural origin. During its evolution, it is certain to bring its cultural mark with it. If people like it, it means this festival can satisfy people’s needs and is worth celebrating. Our traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival can be taken as a good example. It was not a national festival at first. The Chu celebrated it in memory of Qu Yuan, the great patriot and has such a festival to remind us of patriotism. In other words, the importance of a certain festival comes from its historical and cultural origin. And the festival can meet people’s needs. If foreign festivals, such as Christmas and Valentine’s Day are beneficial, people have every reason to celebrate them. We live in an era when communication is developing the most quickly it ever has. The world is described as a global town. International communication will naturally lead to cultural mixture. We learn the advantages of western world; meanwhile the western countries also try to learn the essence of our culture. In this cross-culture process, cultural mixture is inevitable. We celebrate Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day and other foreign festivals; likewise, westerners also celebrate our traditional festivals. In 2006， people in London celebrated Spring Festival ceremoniously and the mayor of London even put a slogan “Happy Chinese New Year” before the city hall. Celebrating foreign festivals is a kind of cross-cultural communication. If foreigners can accept our traditional festivals they can’t we accept theirs? Nowadays, people are under great pressure from many different areas. Foreign festivals offer an opportunity for people to relax. Life in modern society is becoming faster and faster. Under great pressure, people are eager to find opportunities to gather together, to party or to entertain themselves in other forms. The prosperity of foreign festivals gives people an excuse to do so. Even though we are not religious and we lack related knowledge about the festivals, we can still enjoy foreign festivals. After all, apart from the deep significance of cross-culture communication, foreign festivals mean happy and relaxing hours for modern people. Furthermore, some foreign festivals also help to fill the gap left by our traditional festivals. For instance, in China we only have Chong yang to show our respect to older people. But we do not have mother’s day or father’s day. Borrowing from the western world, we have a chance to appreciate our mothers and fathers. Though foreign festivals are indeed becoming more and more popular in China, personally, I do not think foreign festivals can replace the(转自:wWw.bdFqy.com 千 叶帆 文摘:外国文化入侵 英语作文) importance of our traditional ones in our hearts. Spring Festival is still the longest holiday we enjoy in China; the Mid-autumn Festival is still the biggest day for family reunions. People will never forget to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival on May 5th by lunar calendar. The prosperity of foreign festivals does not mean we will throw ours away. Nor does it mean we admire foreign cultures blindly and forget the essence of ours. Foreign festivals are complementary to our life but they will never replace our traditional ones. Keeping this principle in mind, foreign festival will add interest to our life. Source 《英语口语技能实训》 12130300420 丁雪莹 篇二:英语作文-东西方文化差异 -Cultural differences Cultural differences There are plenty of. people in the world. They come from different countried, have their own race, belief and way of life. What is more, their culture is different from others'. So, there is no doubt that cultural difference exist among lots of countries, especially between eastern and western countries. Compared with the way of life, eastern people always have a bath in the evening or at night in order to relax themselves after one-day's hard work while western people take a bath in the morning. so as to keep freshly for the whole day. In general, it is true, especially for Chinese people. We, Chinese people would like to take baths at night rather than in the morning. It is a kind of habits we behave all the time. Compared with the relationships, differences are as follow: firstly, eastern people like to make friends, sometimes through their friends, parents, relatives. While western people behave a little shyly. They do not want to make friends all the time. Secondly, eastern people would like to hang out with the person they do not know about quite a lot. while western people just like going out with the person whom they get along well with. Finally, eastern people have much more friends than western people for their quite different way of getting along with. their friends. There is no doubt that eastern people are more outgoing than western people, so I agree with these a lot. As for way of solving problems, eastern people always deal with things indirectly. They pay much attention to many things around them, and always work for a long time to solve the problem. However, western people just go straight the heart of the problem and solve it directly and efficiently. As far as I am concerned, this difference between eastern and western people is quite normal and correct. Eastern people, especially Chinese people care about things around them a lot, they always want to satisfy everyone's need, so that they spend much more time to solve a problem than western people. As for way of thinking, people in eastern areas usually think indirectly. They used to think about the things around them a lot and try to deal with things in a reasonable even perfect way. However, in comparison with the eastern people, people in the western areas often think directly. They pay less attention to the things around them and care much more about themselves. Honestly speaking, I disagree to this.In my opinion, everyone is special and has their right and obligations to do things. There is no need for us to critise others and what we should do is to respect their own. decision. There are a lot of differences between eastern and western culture. These are the symbols of their own characteristics and we need time to dig out more differences so as to learn more about them. Most importantly, we must respect their culture firstly! 篇三:中西方文化差异英语作文 Difference betweenChinese and Western cultures Undoubtedlythereare so many differences between Chinese and Western culture, such as manners, language and so many others. Maybe history is one of the major cause of it .Chinese culture is older than 5000 years, and Chinese people have developed their own music, musical instruments, painting techniques, traditional Chinese medicine, and not to forget, cooking methods as wellwhich is completely different and unique when compared to Western culture.So this time I’m going to pick some aspects and talk about it. Like what mentioned above, cooking methods of China is totally different from the westerns’.Not like west people, we have so many ways to deal with foods.It is said that there are more than fifty ways for a Chinesecook to choose every time he dealing withthe same kind offood.No wander to be a great cook in china you have to start training from young child. ComparedwithChinese, westerns seems to be more casual when they are cooking. They usually cook food by frying or stewing. Because they would like to put emphasis on food’ s nutrition not the taste of it. When it comes to the aspect of men’s behavior, there is a vast difference in the rules of behavior between Chinese and Westerns. Westerns are more willing to change the environment rather than adapting themselves to it, which is opposite to Chinese people. Affected by the ancient philosophies of China, we believe in that we must get ourselves into one certain environment. For example, once we come into a new group, we are always told to follow others so that we can become one of it. But westerners would like to make them change and teach them to work in his way. Besides the behavior of people from two distinct culture, the realization of self-worth is different for Chinese and westerns. Affected by the Confucius’s philosophy from the ancient time. We believed that we should put our countryahead of our own interests. One can be respected only by making contribution for his country, like some war heroes. But westerns do respect those who succeed in his own lives. They believe that man who achieve goals of happiness and success by working hard is worth others’ respecting. Maybe that can explains why so many millionaire inChina can’t have the equal reputation compared to those westerns’. Anyway, Westerners usuallyfind the Chinese culture complex, and hard to understand, as the Chinese culture has its own values, background and belief system.