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范范版专八 5 篇压轴冲刺范文 [1] East or West, Festivals Are Best With the advent of globalization Western holidays like St. Valentine’s Day and Christmas have consuming love affairs with China, thus leading to heated controversy. For advocates, Western festivals can go beyond national and cultural barriers with a great day for Chinese people to enjoy life and relax themselves. By following a trend of festival changes and cultural exchanges, such celebrations can further compensate a stronger absence of traditional festive air in today’s China. In contrast, opponents generally prioritize preserving traditional rituals and customs. They assert the pernicious pervasion of Westernized holidays as incurring civic spiritual corruption in morality and conduct. Challengers in China show great concerns over the Western cultural invasion based upon widespread consumerism propagated by merchants. In my view, despite the good reasons by opponents’ caveat, the advocates’ defenses deserve better recognition by highlighting the Western festive impacts upon individual everyday life and cross-cultural communication. At first sight, a wider range of defects from practicing Western holidays can be discovered/analyzed. For example, it must be acknowledged for them to deal a fatal blow on traditional Chinese culture and the sense of communal identity by reshaping the younger generation’s national and cultural identity. Next, celebrating Western holidays will give rise to lax standards of moral and lifestyle as sex and drinking might not be rare in the wake of breaking down Confucian ethical norms. Foreign festivals also exert religious invasion by encroaching on and corrupting local/ indigenous beliefs and habits, such as arranged or traditional marriage forms in India. In addition, they can represent Western expansion of culture and soft power o