英语辩论赛正方发言我们是否应该过外国节日.doc

Nowadays some Western festivals are becoming more and more popular in most Chinese cities and I agree to celebrate western holidays in China and I will give three reasons to support my view. First of all, the celebration of western holiday is a good way of learning the western cultures, which helps to promote understanding and communication between Chinese cultures and other cultures. Secondly, with the development of economy, different peoples contact each other more frequently. The world become smaller, exactly speaking, we are living in a globe village. In order to get on well with people coming from other countries, we must learn their cultures. For example, if foreign friends are living in china, they may become homesick especially on festivals. If you are kind enough to give them some congratulations on that day, they may be moved and show great respect to you. Communications will be much easier. Moreover when we are on festivals days, we always have a different mood. We are more joyful, full of more expectations. So why dont we celebrate it? Of course when we are celebrating foreign festivals, we should not neglect or forget ours. We will never forget our Mid-Autumn day or Spring Festival, National Day and so on. So dont worry about that. Life is easy and colorful. All in all, no matter for what, happy and enjoy is the main topic for us. We celebrate Christmas just because we can enjoy it, we can get much happyness from it. Besides, celebrating it is not means we forget our own tradition festivalsAs we all know, there are so many festivals in the entire world, including Chinese traditional festivals and Western festivals. I strongly disagree to celebrate western holidays in China and I will give two reasons to support my view. To begin with, western festivals have the cultural and historical origins in the western countries, which are unknown by Chinese people. There are so many western festivals, for example Christmas Day, which are originated from Christian and this is not believed in by the majority of Chinese people. We could not gain the happy feeling since we could not understand these holidays meanings. Most of us dont believe in Christ, God or religions, and few of us know the meaning of Christmas I feel uncomfortable for a religious holidayFurthermore, there are so many meaningful traditional festivals in China, from which people could have a rest and get relax. As far as Chinese people are concerned, the Spring Festival is our favorite festival, which is celebrated by Chinese people no matter where they are. In the festival, without the burden of work, people call on relatives, visit their respected teachers, and chat with their best friends. Besides, there are other meaningful and instructive festivals in China, such as Autumn Day, National Day, Pure Bright Festival, etc. To sum up, there are different kinds of meaningful and adequate festivals in China to celebrate and western festivals background are unknown to Chinese people, so it should not be celebrated by us.反方问题1、We have a lot of traditional festivals, like the Spring Festival and the Mooncake Festival，But why should we celebrate western festivals?Its right to lay emphasis on our traditional festivals but its not proper to reject the foreign ones on this account. As late Chairman Mao said: “Make the past serve the present and foreign things serve China.” In fact, China has been receiving some foreign festivals on a selective basis since the reform and opening like Christmas Day, Mothers Day and Fathers Day, and are becoming popular festivals among the people. Besides, As a traditional Chinese festival and a typical Eastern culture, the Chinese Spring Festival is being observed by foreigners in many countries. 2、As far as I know, some big cities like chongqing, the Christmas atmosphere is more joy and interesting than some cities in US. Chinese dont know why celebrate Christmas, but they are still do that zealously. Do you think whether it is good phenomenon to us？Although most people celebrate western holidays without knowing the meaning behind them.They just go shopping, hold parties and have fun. . Its not a bad thing for the people to take advantage of the western festivals, entertaining themselves, getting together and exchanging greetings. To the whole society, Christmas can stimulate the countrys economy and the peoples consumption, increase the income of tourism and catering industry and other entertainment industries, creating more social wealth.正方问题1、when it is Christmas，Most people, including me, get many messages or cards of Christmas best wishes from friends. Could you say western festivals give no entertainment to us？It is common knowledge that every nation has its own special festivals with colorful backgrounds, which are closely connected with its special history or excellent culture. So festivals are the products of the sedimentary accretion of a nations culture over thousands of years. such a festival as Christmas possesses strong religious sense and colors. I feel uncomfortable for a religious holiday2、The celebration of western holiday is a good way of learning the western cultures, which helps to promote understanding and communication between Chinese cultures and other cultures. Could you say It is useless？Most of us dont believe in Christ, God or religions, and few of us know the meaning of Christmas, whats the point of celebrating it? Christmas is a festival full of religious colors and meanings for the Christians. If the non-Christians participate in the observance, they are subservient to foreigners. So lets keep our mind on the traditional Chinese festivals instead.Today what we are debating the topic is whether we should celebrate other peoples festivals? On the affirmative side we haveand on the negative side we haveBoth teams have showed great debating ability in todays fierce competition. Let us now await for the adjudicators scoring. I am sure it is going to be very close.And I think all contestants need to be congratulated for their outstanding efforts.The score is in, and the winner of todays debate isThan you all for coming.In recent years, ma