good evening,honorable judges,ladies and gentlemen.
it’s my great pleasure to stand here to present my speech-change the world,change ourselves.
it’s noticable that western holidays are becoming increasingly popular day by day,while chinese traditional festivals are being somewhat neglected. not long before about 10 doctors in beijing university and qinghua unversity announced that we should reject the invasion of western holidays,because they regard western holidays as an challenge against our traditional festivals and culture.
frankly speaking,i don’t quite agree with them.indeed,we should never neglect or even discard our traditonal festivals as china boasts a brilliant history and splendid traditions.(examples).but why can’t we absorb the meaningful western holidays and culture.
there are obvious reasons why some western holidays are so popular in china. on the one hand,some of the western holidays which we chinese don’t have are reasonable and meaningful,such as father’s day and april fool’s day etc. on the other hand,the prevalence of globalization enables western culture to prevail in china. overwhelmed by such a trend,chinese unconsiciously get involved in western holidays and culture.
with the further development of the whole world,the cultural communication between different countries and nations becomes faster and more and more important. we are indeed from different nations,but we are the citizens of the same world,so the outstanding culture of different nations is the commom wealth of everyone on the earth.the only way for us to protect our traditional culture is to reject the foreign culture?the answer is definitely no. what we ought to do is to spare no effort to educate chinese to get to know and treasure our splendid traditions instead of rejecting foreign culture. only by educating can we set our confidence and belief towards our culture. only by educating can we preserve and promote the wealth that our ancesters left for us.
at last i’d like to share a famouse saying of gandhi with all of you,that is:if you want to change the world,then you must change yourself first.”
晚上好，尊敬的评委们，女士们先生们。
我很高兴站在这里发表我的演讲--改变世界，改变我们自己。
值得注意的是，西方节日日益流行，而中国传统节日却被忽视了。不久前，北京大学和清华大学的10名医生宣布，我们应该抵制对西方节假日的入侵，因为他们认为西方节假日是对我们传统节日和文化的挑战。
坦白说，我不太同意他们的看法。的确，我们不应该忽视甚至抛弃我们的传统节日，因为中国有着灿烂的历史和灿烂的传统。(例子)。但为什么我们不能吸收西方有意义的节日和文化呢？
有些西方节日在中国如此受欢迎，原因很明显。一方面，我们中国人没有的一些西方节日是合理和有意义的，比如父亲节和愚人节等。另一方面，全球化的盛行使西方文化在中国盛行。这种趋势让中国人不知所措，他们不顾一切地卷入了西方的节日和文化之中。
随着世界的进一步发展，不同国家和民族之间的文化交流越来越快、越来越重要。我们确实来自不同的国家，但我们是同一个世界的公民，所以不同民族的优秀文化是地球上每个人的共同财富。要保护我们的传统文化，的办法就是拒绝外国文化？答案肯定是否定的。我们应该做的是不遗余力地教育中国人去了解和珍惜我们灿烂的传统，而不是排斥外国文化。只有通过教育，我们才能对我们的文化树立信心和信念。只有通过教育，我们才能保存和促进我们祖先留给我们的财富。
最后，我想和大家分享一句甘地的名言，那就是：如果你想改变世界，那么你必须首先改变自己。“
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