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With today’s seemingly irreversible trend toward globalization, countries interact with each other more often and more intensely. As a result, worldwide interest in intercultural communication has risen. Although we are familiar with the introduction of western culture into China by Chinese scholars, whose aim is “to learn others’ strong points in order to surpass them”, ways of spreading Chinese culture to the west remain a mystery to most of us. Who are the harbingers of culture? The answer may be surprising: religious missionaries.Christmas in China is a homogeneous culture formed with the Christianity preaching,With the reform being furthered,Christmas culture is prospering in China.Different from the Chinese native culture,Christmas is the other constructed by Chinese Christians.In other words,Christmas culture reveals the tendency that Chinese Christians try to weaken the pressure from the other shore with their Chinese boon from their life-world.PhD students say No to ChristmasBy Li Qian (C)Updated: 2006-12-21 18:13 As Christmas draws near, ten philosophy and education PhD students from Chinas top universities jointly publicized a petition on the Internet, calling on netizens, especially the young, to be less excited about the exotic holiday, Shanghai-based X reported December 21, 2006.This is the latest instance of public resistance to western culture and lifestyles in China. In the online petition, titled Out of Cultural Collective Unconsciousness, Strengthen Chinese Cultural Dominance and dated with traditional Chinese Era Calendar, PhD students from Chinas most authoritative universities including Beida, Tsinghua and Peoples University hope to wake up the Chinese people to resist western cultural invasion.A Santa Claus model blowing the trumpet is seen in front of the Oriental Pearl Tower at the Lujiazui financial district in Shanghai December 19, 2006. [newsphoto]According to the petition, occidental culture has been more like storms sweeping through the