The Phenomenon of East-West Cultural Integration

Good morning, everyone. May you all have a good mood. As we all know, the day before yesterday was Christmas. I think everyone enjoyed the day very much. Obviously, Christmas is a western festival, but Chinese people give it a new meaning, that is “safety and happiness”. And today, the topic of my speech is The Phenomenon of East-West Cultural Integration.

First, Let us know about the origin of Christmas. The name Christmas is short for Christ’s mass. A mass is a kind of church service. Christmas is a religious festival. it is the day we celebrate as the birthday of Jesus. There are special Christmas services in Christian churches all over the world. But many of the festivities of Christmas do not have anything to do with religion. Exchanging gifts and sending Christmas cards are the modern ways of celebrating the Christmas in the world.

Now, Christmas has been very popular in China, especially among the young people. Global integration not only promotes the international business trade, but also affects the people's traditions and customs of different countries and regions. Just as the American people have accepted the gloable food culture, Chinese young generation are also absorbing the western culture, for example Christmas. In addition, Valentine's day, Thanksgiving day and fast food, are also very popular.

In my opinion, there mainly are two reasons to expain that why foreign festivals are becoming more and more popular in China. For one thing, each festival is full of strong cultural color. For another thing, these festivals are filled with human interest.

In addition, American fast food culture has the same situation with western festivals. Fast food is very popular in China. People like to eat fast food, especially children and youngsters. Fast food means restaurants make food quick and people eat food by their fingers. Now, it is permeating to traditional Chinese culture. Nowadays we can see a lot of fast-food shops in China like KFC and McDonald and so on. And it is so popular that you even cannot find a seat to sit down to eat what you bought at lunch time. In China almost everyone likes eat fast-food for its good taste and we regard the shop as the place we can talk with our friends how the things stand. There are some reasons for its popularity. Firstly, there are a variety of fast-food that we can choose what we like. There are hamburgers and pizza. Secondly, recently an increasing number of people concentrate more on health than taste. And the fast-food in China is not like those in foreign countries. It adds lots of nutrition and several useful things into the fast-food. Not only for it, but also for its reasonable price and delicious taste. Thirdly, it can save much time so that you can spend this time shopping. What’s more, we can taste all kinds of food from different parts of the world with soft music and can do homework with our classmates.

Everything needs to adjust to the society with the changes of time and space, and culture makes no exception. Especially when it compromises into another culture, the origin will also change. As mentioned above, the Chinese food sold in the United States,

whose waste is different from local Chinese food. In the same situation, the ways of Chinese people celebrating western festivals are very vary from American traditional ways.

Generally speaking, I think cultural integration has a lot of advantages. Do you know Haier? It makes full use of the Chinese and foreign cultural integration in the implementation of market strategy to meet the different needs of different types of people. The Western food culture greatly enriched the Chinese people's eating habits, to stimulate China’s consumption, and promoting economic development. You can not deny it. Consequently, Cultural integration can help us to create such a colorful world. As to everyone, we now live in a time what cultural integration has produced a great influence in.

However, cultural independence is also of great significance. In this way, it can protect and inherit their own culture. A well-integrated nation can better keep the unity and stability of the country. The trend toward globalizations encourages international exchanges and integration of cultures. If all nations integrated into one, the world would be monotonous. The world is interesting and colorful because of its diversified cultures. Multiculturalism encourages tolerance and understanding among diverse groups in a society, thus promoting stability and development. All ethnic groups should be allowed to maintain their unique characteristics.

I’m with the view that in this modern world, the culture of any nation cannot develop in isolation. And I believe that different cultures should learn from each other’s strengths to offset their own weaknesses. Of course, the culture must withhold its own distinctive national characteristics in its extensive exchange with other cultures. Cultural exchange, I think, is by no means a process of losing one’s own culture to a foreign culture, but a process culture, of enriching each other’s national cultures.

Modern means of transportation, telecommunication and mass media have shortened the geographical distance of the world. The international community appears to be no more than a global village, in which peoples of all nations experience the inevitable cultural exchanges clashes, while seeking common development in a harmonious and respectful relationship.

第二篇：十分钟英语演讲稿

十分钟英语演讲稿

in the matter of courage we all have our limits. there never was a hero who did not have his bounds. i suppose it may be said of nelson and all the others whose courage has been advertised that there came times in their lives when their bravery knew it had come to its limit.

i have found mine a good many times. sometimes this was expected--often it was unexpected. i know a man who is not afraid to sleep with a rattle-snake, but you could not get him to sleep with a safety-razor.

i never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room. i should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. if i

attempt to talk across a room i find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods i have part of the audience behind me. you ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do.

i'll sit down.

中文：

在勇气问题上，人人都有极限。从来就没有胆大包天的英雄好汉。我想，可以说，纳尔逊和所有那些被大量宣传的勇士，一生中都有勇气达到极限的时候。

我就多次发现自己的勇气到了极限。有时是意料之中的——经常是出乎意料的。我认识一个人.此君不怕与响尾蛇同寝，可你无法让他与保安剃刀共眠。 我从来就没有勇气在狭长房间的中央发表讲话。我得站在房间的一头，面对全体听众。如果我试图站在房间中央讲话，我就会不断地转身，这样，就不断有部分听众在我背后。你们永远不能让自己背后有听众;你们永远闹不清他们要干什么。

我得坐下了。