【文章內容簡介】 ffer from starvation forever as this IS the reality。4)Disputes among different countries would never be settled as this misunderstandings and intolerance IS the and gentlemen, how many of you have a dream of being able to make a lot of money? Please raise your , quite a number of you!Actually, ladies and gentlemen, this is not a dream, but a one of us has to make a living, right? Anyway I hope your task will be many of you think that you have already fulfilled your dream and that you don39。t dream anymore? Dear 5)adjudicators, what do you think? once said, “You are never too old to dream a new dream.” So for our future, please dream and be that I am a university student, my goal is to graduate with at the same time, I have a dream deeply rooted in our day, people living in the areas now 6)sweltering with the horror of wars will be able to sit with their families and enjoy their every day, people from the rich countries are willing to share what they have with those from the poor countries and those from the poor countries will eventually be able to make their own happy living day, different cultures in this age of globalization will coexist with tolerance and the unfriendly confrontations among them will be 7) day, the globe will share the dream with me and we will all contribute to making our dream e day, our dream will defeat the reality!Thank you very “21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽季軍——張阿旭TwoWay Traffic Seven centuries ago, Marco Polo, after staying in our country for almost twenty years, brought the secrets of spaghetti and icecream with him back to than seven hundred years later, with the prevalence of globalization, our people, our food, our products and many other items, have traveled to many other places beyond matter where these Chinese people, Chinese food, Chinese products and many other Chinese items are, they carry with them qualities that are unique to our very own Chinese cultureMcDonald39。s, KFCs, soccer players and NBA we are even having this prestigious national speaking petition in a language that does not belong to the midst of western products pouring in China as a result of globalization, sometimes we do wonder, where does our own culture belong? When we see our younger generations going away from traditional values such as contextual and rolebased ethics, ideal of munity, hierarchy, paternalism and nonlitigious nature of society, we may even think our traditional values are challenged and even , are we really losing our values? Ladies and gentlemen, we must remember, the traffic of globalization is , films from Hollywood, soccer from the United Kingdom and restaurants from America, do have an impact on our , if we see globalization in China a synonymous term with western economic cultural hegemony, we are underestimating the impact of not only globalization but also our a look at , it is the desire and dream of every single Chinese to speak fluent English, including every single one of us , have you ever wondered how many nonChinese are learning Chinese? Let me tell you, by the end of 2002, nearly 30 million people from 85 countries and regions were learning standard Chinese, who knows about the number of people learning regional dialects such as Shanghainese and these two years, I am sure none of us here will be surprised that the number is a look at Feng Shui, within seconds Google brings you 1,270,000 websites about Feng Shui, not in Chinese, not from all over the world, but in English, just within the United I guess some of you still remember, when the previous American president, Bill Clinton, first became actually had the furniture of his office rearranged according to feng shui a look at traditional Chinese years ago, in 2001, there were already more than 120 000 traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, researchers and related business trading panies in Europe, just holistic approach of taking care of a person39。s health has been proven popular in the values, language, our Feng Shui, our traditional medicine and also Kung Fu that I have not really talked about, are all parts and messengers of our culture and does their success in the west tell us? Their popularity tells us that, alongside cheap consumer products, we are exporting to the west, Chinese beliefs and, and gentlemen, globalization, yes it has its impacts on our is sending our values overseas and bringing in new 39。s not see the bringing in of new ones a threat to our own a matter of fact, the bringing in is a very good opportunity and time to rethink and reflect who we are and what we want to is upon us whether globalization has a positive or negative impact on our traditional and gentlemen, I see this positively, I know even if our traditional values are changing or to change, the change is for better, not for you very “21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽亞軍——張京The Impact of Globalization on Traditional Chinese Values Good morning, ladies and gentlemen: Before western and Chinese civilization came into close contact, Chinese people had always longed for a life depicted in traditional Chinese paintings present a harmonious coexistence of people and other life as the essence of ancient Chinese philosophies, harmony has been deeplyrooted in the minds of the Chinese the one hand, it has contributed to the unique continuity of Chinese the other, Chinese people became too much contented with their achievements to desire any further globalization deepens, it is bound to affect our ideal of , globalization urges China to speed up its modernization, which threatens our regard for the harmony between Man and instance, many dams and hydropower stations are being built for economic benefits at the expense of the wellpreserved natural , ecological malpractice of such kind goes against the notion of harmonious coexistence in ancient Chinese than 2,000 years ago, long before the concept of environmental protection came into being, DuJiang Weir, a great irrigation project was built in southwestern China39。s Sichuan su