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 Valentines Day than QIXI. July 7th by the lunar calendar（Chinese Valentines 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 peoples 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 peoples needs. If foreign festivals, such as Christmas and Valentines 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, Valentines 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 cant 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 mothers day or fathers 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 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