about China’s traditional culture and legendary. They all full of Chinese elements, such as The KongFu Panda of Dreamworks and Mulan of Disney. This kind of phenomenon indicates that the world is going to realize the charm of Chinese culture. Let’s take a look at the current situation about the traditional Chinese culture. There are some researches on students about the traditional culture. The statistics show that almost half of the college students are not interested in Beijing opera or the other local operas and only 25% pupils know the four treasures of the study. The statistics also show that except the Children’s Day, children like celebrating Christmas the most, only 33% children like celebrating the Spring Festival and 14% like the Mid-Autumn Day. As a Chinese, we should do more in developing our traditional culture and custom. That is what we need to do and what we have to do. If we have to protect our culture by people who come from other nations, then our culture must decline sooner or later.
In today’s world, the globalization makes all the countries grow fast. At the same, it also leads to an identity crisis and the clashes of different civilizations. The American political scientist Samuel Huntington has proposed a theory called The Clashes of Civilizations. He argues that people’s cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world (Huntington.153). A country must reinforce its own cultural identity in order to strengthen its leadership and international influence. And every country must answer a simple question: “Who are you?” not “Which side are you?” The answer about cultural identity can confirm a nation’s position in global politics, its friends and enemies.
If a country loses its own cultural identity, the most important significance of the nation’s existence will disappear without trace. If a country just accepts all the foreign culture
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and values, it will damage the country’s political system and its cohesive force. China’s sustained economic growth and development, and increasing role as a global power have enabled our cultural impact to grow significantly in recent years. Through international cultural exchange, China can enrich its own culture and contributes to the development of art and culture around the world.
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Huntington, Samuel. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.
London: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Print.
Friedman, Jonathan. Culture Identity and Global Process. London: Sage Publications
Ltd, 1994. Print.
Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat. London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2005. Print. “On the Crisis of Cultural Identity and the Constructive Meaning of Confucian Ethics
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