Title: Diversity creates beauty

Culture is the essence of a nation’s strength, so how to develop our culture and treat oversea culture is an important issue. There are different thinking and actions in the world. Some nations reject foreign culture. Meanwhile, there are some nations imitate others. Of course, there are countries keep the good traditional culture as a basic and then adopt others’ strengths, such as China, Japan. I hold the idea that we should make cultural diversity become mainstream in the future world and avoid cultural integration at the same time.

To date, how to develop its own culture has never been stopped thinking. Every nation has its own assumption, action and reform. Keep cultural diversity is successful and effective. Cite China, Tang Dynasty enjoys its own booming economy and colorful culture. Search for its origin and we are easy to find that Tang Dynasty learn oversea advanced culture at the basic of its own accessible culture. As for our present China, the strength is obviously clear. Once we take up “reform and open” policy, the situation and status in international society change greatly. Our life standard of course has been raised sharply. Keep cultural diversity contributes much to the development of China. Qing Dynasty made the strength of China fall behind advanced countries for several tens years. There is no wonder for it to experience this result if you have understood something of Chinese history. In Qing Dynasty, its emperor operated cultural tyrancy(文化专制主义). That is to say, it stuck to cultural integration inside of our country.

After hearing the above examples, you may say that culture seems to have nothing to do with economy and how you can prove diversity creates beauty and cultural integration blocks development. Maybe you are right, but don’t forget that culture is soul and spirit for a nation. It provides direction and dynamic power for its people to create bright future. As an old saying puts, “Idea comes before action.”

In this paragraph, I want to analyse the inner connection between cultural diversity and how it work wonder-beauty. First, personality distinguishes our special individual and makes our world colorful. It’s the same to cultural diversity. Lack of diversity, vibrant society would disappear. Second, everything has more than one angle. One person cannot find all angles and research all of them successful. In the multicultural society, we can learn others’ fruit and others learn our extra gains. This can enrich our culture and make it constant and effective development.

For culture development in China, I think we should keep our root-fine traditional culture and we should also adopt others’ strength points. Go on constant reform of culture to make sure that it adapts to present situation and can ensure the constant development of our nation.

I wish what I’m speaking can count a little.

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Our future: a battle between dreams and reality

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen:

When I was in the primary school, I have a dream. I want to invent a device which could bring you from one place to another in no time at all. When I was in the secondary school, my dream was to study in my ideal university. And when eventually I got into the university, my dream was to graduate. How pathetic! When we grow up, we dream less and become more realistic. Why? Why do we have to change our dreams, so ,so in order to let it be “fulfilled”？ Why do we have to surrender to the so –called “reality”? What is the reality actually?

Ladies and gentlemen, the reality is not real. It is a barrier keeping us from all the possible fantasies. Flying, for example, had been a dream to mankind for thousands of years. A hundred years ago, “man could not fly” was still regarded as the “reality”. Now if that was really the reality, what did the Wright brothers do? How did some of you get to Macao? Only when we believe that the reality is not real can we soar with our dreams.                                                                                                         People say that our future is a battle between the reality and our dreams. And if, unfortunately, Mr. Reality wins this war, then I see no future of mankind at all. AIDS will never be curable as this is the reality; people living in the undeveloped countries will suffer form starvation forever as this is the reality; disputes among different countries would never be settled as this misunderstandings and intolerance is the reality.

Ladies and gentlemen, how many of you have a dream of being able to make a lot of money? Please raise your hands. Oh, quite a number of you! Actually, ladies and gentlemen, this is not a dream, but a task. Every one of us has to make a living, right? Anyway I hope your task will be accomplishes. How many of you think that you have already fulfilled your dream and that you don’t dream anymore? Dear adjudicators, what do you think?

C.S. Lewis once said, “You are never too old to dream a new dream.” So for our future, please and be unrealistic. Now that I am a university student my goal is to graduate with excellences. But at the same time, I have a dream deeply rooted in our future. One day, people living in the areas now sweltering with the horror of wars will be able to sit with their families and enjoy their every moment. One day, people from the rich countries are willing to share what they have with those from the poor countries. And those from the poor countries will eventually be able to make their own happy living themselves. One day, different cultures in this age of coexist with tolerance and the unfriendly confrontations among them will be eliminated. One day, the globe will share the dream with me. And we will all contribute to making our dream come true. One day, our dream will defeat the reality! Thank you very much.