The Impact of Globalization on Chinese Culture

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The Impacts of Globalization on Traditional Chinese Culture With the reform and opening-up to the outside world, values and life style of western country rush into China. We can see new things in every aspect of our life, especially in our culture. It is apparent that more and more people are being attracted by the foreign cultures, including brands, food, festivals, music, as globalization has removed the barrier existing among different cultures little by little. You can often hear "Rock and Roll" in the street. You can smell the sweetness of puffed rice everywhere along the street. From a certain time, Chinese people especially young people have been in the habit of celebrating western festivals such as Valentine's Day, Christmas. Nevertheless, some people have been worried about the preservation of our own traditional culture, which has long been the precious heritage for Chinese people and have contributed towards a sense of national unity and pride. They criticize globalization is ruining the traditional Chinese culture. But in my opinion, globalization benefits the development of the native culture. Firstly, globalization gives Chinese a clear cultural identification. Although globalization brings all kinds of threats to the survival and development of Chinese traditional culture, finally the impacts on the traditional Chinese cultural become the power for traditional Chinese cultural to adapt to the modernization. Because of this kind of cultural identification, Chinese change their attitudes greatly towards traditional culture and make traditional Chinese culture known all over the world. On 29 August 2004, the night of the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics, hundreds of millions of Chinese stayed up into the early morning to watch an eight-minute ‘spectacle of China’ on TV by Zhang Yimou, the country’s best known director. Staged in Athens’ Olympic
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