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英语学习Should We Celebrate the Western Festivals？ 其一 Nowadays，Western festivals such as Christmas and Valentines Day are gaining increasing popularity in China, especially among college students. But whether we should celebrate these festivals has become a subject of heated discussion. Some believe celebrating Western festivals is a sign of globalization. They argue that China needs to take in various foreign cultures so as to blend into the modern world. And celebrating Western festivals is a good opportunity for the Chinese to know?more about other cultures. However, others believe that the Western festivals threaten a kind of cultural aggression. Therefore, we should drive them out lest they should undermine our traditional culture. In my opinion, as college students, we should preserve the traditional Chinese culture as well as stay open to Western ones. Therefore, while laying?emphasis on Chinese festivals, we could also absorb foreign elements.? 其二 Whether we Chinese should celebrate the western festivals or not has been a subject of heated discussion and argument among people of all ranks recent years. Some say that it’s improper for the western festivals to be celebrated in China because such a festival as Christmas possesses strong religious sense and colors. They are deeply convinced that on the one hand the popularity of the western festivals in China is the result of the foreign cultural invasion and the infiltration1 of the foreign “soft force”. On the other hand, more and more Chinese people, especially young people, have lost their interest in our traditional Chinese festivals like Mid-autumn Festival, Dragon-boat Festival, Tomb-sweeping Day, Double Ninth Festival etc., showing clearly that some countrymen have lost their self-confidence in our national culture and customs. At the advent of the western festivals, such as Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and so forth, a festive air scarcely seen before appears across the country, attracting thousa