【英语演讲】东西方文化融合Culture integration

Culture integration

Ladies and gentleman:

Today I feel am so glad to stand here to deliver my speech .

Last month, one of my foreign friends told me his host family would bring him to the Chinese countryside to enjoy weekends. I thought it must be an unforgettable experience for him. And 2 days later, he called me, extremely excited; he said “my host family is a magician!” I felt so strange and said “No! They are not, but what happened?” he said “my host family doesn’t want me to go outside after 6 pm, but I secretly saw them burn some paper, candles, and play with the fire at the dark night, I was shocked.”Well, I forget to tell him it is not magic, but it is the traditional way for us to memory our dead families. Therefore, in our daily life, the differences between eastern culture and western culture are very common to be seen. So, will this difference exist forever? No, it won’t, I think the eastern culture and western culture should be integrated, or they have been integrating. Next, I will discuss from 3 aspects to prove my opinion.

First of all, the two different cultures have met in business, and promote

the economic development. Different cultures have different meaning, which brought us both shock and surprise. If we can combine the cultures, it will produce another new culture. For example, once when my Italian friend orders a hamburger in kfc, sud denly he shouted “too spicy, too spicy”. Alright, maybe the zinger burger doesn’t apply for Italian taste, but this is the most popular food in China, and only China has spicy hamburger. KFC has taken the Chinese culture which we prefer spicy food into consideration, and combine with Western fast food culture. That brings a big success to KFC. Maybe in the future, when we walking in American Street, we will taste the sticky tofu with tomato sauce.

Also, the eastern and western culture has met in education, which can broaden my horizon and knowledge. There are 300 Confucian colleges all over the world, and the confucials ideas are affecting more and more people, someone even raise the question “what will happen whe n scrotes meets confucias?” the Western culture is always more open, and eastern culture is cautious, and as a young student, if we can learn from the western culture to have an opening thinking way and keep our Chinese prudence principle, is it much better for us?

Last but the least, the cultures also met in art. Don’t you remember the

famous movie , which tells the progress for a panda to learning kungfu. But this panda is a little bit different; he can speak English, because he is from Hollywood. But this movie is so popular, because it combines the American heroism and Chinese traditional style together, both keeping the western humorous and eastern custom. Even my grandmother feel so surprised and says “why the father of this panda is a little duck?”

Now that the east and west cultures have integrated so tightness, as a youngster, we should always have an open mind, learning to understand and respect the customs of another culture. Maybe there are certain things some people don’t like. To this, I will say, please try to tolerate it. To learn to tolerate what you personally don’t like is a great virtue. Before us, there are two rivers, eastern and western cultures. At present, they may run in different courses. But eventually, they will converge into the vast sea of human culture.

上个月，我一个外国朋友很开心的和我说他的寄宿家庭决定带他去中国乡下玩，我当时想这一定可以让他开心一把。过了几天，他和我打电话，非常兴奋，我说“你感觉怎么样？”，他说“天啊，我的寄宿家庭是魔术师吗？”我说“不是啊？怎么了”他接着说“我的寄宿家庭每天让我晚上6点后就不要出门了，然后我偷偷的看到他们晚上在

玩火，然后烧很多很多的纸，那太可怕了。”哦，天啊，我忘记告诉他了，那不是魔术，那是我们中国的祭祀。所

以，在我们现代生活中，的的确确有很多很多的文化冲突，就如同我们不能理解为什么伊斯兰教的人可以每天保持8个小时不进食，而也许伊斯兰教的人也会认为为什么我们天天都要吃猪肉。那么，难道文化冲突会永远存在，而且中西方文化始终对立吗？不，不会，我觉得中西方文化应该要结合起来，或者说，中西方文化已经开始结合了。接下来我会从三个方面来证明我的观点。

首先，中西方文化结合在了经济方面，并且推动者经济的发展。不论是哪一种文化，带给彼此的既是好奇，同样也是惊喜，所以，如果能够讲两者结合，将会衍生出新的产品。比如说，我曾经和我的外国朋友在肯德基点了两个汉堡，然后他突然大喊说“太辣了，太辣了”，哦，我忘记告诉他中国的川香鸡腿堡的确比较辣，但是确实最受欢迎的产品。肯德基充分的考虑到了中国文化中的辣文化，然后和西方的快餐文化结合起来。这难道不是一种中西方文化在经济上面的结合吗？或者在以后我们漫步在外国街头，我们也能发现番茄味的臭豆腐。

同时，中西方文化也在教育中融合，如此来扩充我们的视野以及知识面。在全球，有300多家孔子学院，孔子思想也在影响着越来越多的人，甚至有人会去想《当孔子遇到苏格拉底》会怎样。国外的文化往往更加开放，强调全面，而中国的文化则是要求完美，强调深度。那

么作为年轻人，如果我们能够在学习中即拥有西方的开放式思想，又能够保持中方的谨慎性原则，那么这不会更好促进我们发展吗?

最后，中西方文化也在艺术中碰撞出火花。还记得那个《功夫熊猫》，这部电影讲述了一只可爱的熊猫学习功夫的过程。当然，这只熊猫比较特殊，他会说英语，因为他来自美国好莱坞。但是这样一部影片却非常成功，因为它将美国的英雄主义和中国的传统文化相结合，既保持了美国大片的幽默感，又有着浓浓的中国风味。连我奶奶都感到非常震惊“为什么一直鸭子可以生出一直熊猫？”

既然是当我们的中西方文化如此紧密联系，作为年轻人，更应该保持一颗开放的心，当两种文化相结合的时候，也许一方的文化中的某些东西不适应另一方的传统文化。当此种情况出现时，我们需要试着理解并接受另一种文化中的风俗习惯。然而，也许有些东西你并不喜欢，对于此，我可以说，如果你不喜欢它，请试着去容忍它。当两种文化融合的时候，试着去容忍你个人不喜欢的东西是一种美德。

在我们面前有两条河流，东方文化和西方文化。现在，它们也许正朝着不同的方向流去。但是最终它们将汇合到人类文化的海洋里。