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the sympathy with the author, as a light pierces the darkness, shining down upon the softest part of your heart that is too vague to explore by your own meditation. To the extent that books afford the delight of finding a spirit mentor, television pales owing to its dazzling but superficial expression. 傳統(tǒng)不變1. 節(jié)日:Chinese Spring Festival that lasts for thousands of years is celebrated, in the way of having reunion and set fireworks, among all Chinese men wherever they are. Also on Thanksgiving Day, Americans have delicate dinners with families and friends for a time of thanks and forgiveness. 2. 禮節(jié):And the way people say hi (the quotidian ritual) also reflect traditional cultures in modern times, such as a bow made by Japanese, a right hand lifted by Africans, a namaste made by Thais. 3. 思想:In United States, it is the conviction of freedom and democracy that provides the mainstream ideology of political and legal system。 and it is the ancient Confucianism that moulds Chinese present ethic principles and political style.4. 行為:Japanese are famous for their strictness and conformity as a result of heritage of warrior spirit。 Americans, the beneficiaries of the most democratic society, conduct freely and less tending to interfere with others’ business。 Germans, who have the most trustworthy and durable products, reveals the pursuit of preciseness of the society by their rigorous and stringent adherence to rules and institutions。 and Chinese people respect diligence and leniency as significant virtues that are transmitted from their ancestors.小語種不能消失都德:In bygone eras, mother languages of invaders are forcibly instilled into people in colonies, as Daudet described the inexorable scene in his famous novel The Last Lesson, in which French, the most beautiful language as he suggested, was endangered stemming from the aggression of Prussia四、科學交叉學科:1. 達爾文:Darwin and his contemporaries derived the suggestion of social evolution for their theories on biology, or, to put it bluntly, were indebted to the population theories of Malthus, and through him, of R. Cantillon.2. DNA: The background of genome project is the result of bination of disciplines that Watson and Crick applied knowledge of physics for discovering the double helix structure of DNA upon which nowadays genetics depends. 當代人認同:1. 哥白尼:Copernicus 2. 達爾文:Another telling instance is Darwin’s adaptive theory that subverted god’s nobility and was also resisted by disciples. 3. 凱恩斯:Taking the example of Keynes, the founder of macroeconomics, who was not understood by most of economists of his time, had the Big Depression never happened, there would not be the stage for his theory during his lifetime.4. 法拉第:Faraday39。s theory of electromagnetic induction was scoffed after its birth by a government official.5. 克隆:Were the biologist Wilmut who cloned Dolly forced to cease this research by ethical pressure, the world would have lost one of the greatest progresses.6. 梵高:Consider Vincent Van Gogh, who firstly adds the element of human emotions to paintings, and who however was not recognized by his contemporary society mainly depreciated by those critics.7. 韋爾奇:Jack Welch, one of the most successful men in the world,