全球化对中国文化的影响(英文原创).doc

Discuss the impact of globalization on China from culture perspective 1. Introduction Former UN Secretary General Annan once pointed out that globalization is an actual event which would have huge effects on the future of human race. Globalization is led by western countries, so developing countries have less effect in globalization (Lieber Weisberg, 2002). Globalization becomes a great threat and challenge to both economy safety and sovereignty of developing countries, as well as their cultural security (Compton, 2000). As the world’s largest developing country, China goes faster than any other developing country in the progress of globalization. Coupled with the complex environment of globalization, many social facets in China are being or have been deeply influenced by globalization. Among these influences, China’s cultural development is in a much more dangerous situation. Globalization is a actually, double-edged sword, which brings people both challenges and opportunities. Challenges of globalization to Chinese culture 2.1 Decline of traditional festivals In the process of globalization and with the expansion of cultural communication, western culture sweeps China and of course, this is normal. Only absorbing and integrating foreign culture element can guarantee a national culture a remarkable development. In this culture exchanging progress, people should hold on to the bottom line of national culture. However, as western festivals enter China, more and more Chinese favor foreign festivals rather than their own. Some are indifferent to traditional Chinese festivals and even forget them (Jie, 2003). Certainly, the hype of foreign festivals by the advertisers is one of the reasons. However, what is deeply reflected by this phenomenon is that Chinese are showing a status of bigotry and inapplicability to the globalization (Liu, 2004). It is the bigotry and inapplicability that leads to the great endangerment of traditional Chinese festivals. 2.2 Insufficien