英语国家社会文化概况

Christmas

1. Christmas as the traditional Western festival, is gradually gaining popularity in China. Now it doesn't matter wherever you go, you can spot Christmas card, Santa Claus and reindeer. Many people suggest the government should put restriction on Christmas since it is threatening our traditional culture; it is the "invasion of foreign culture"

2. Personally I disagree with this opinion. If you travel abroad, we can tell how much Chinese culture impacted on western society, our traditional medicine, our martial art and poetry. Without communication and conflict, our culture won't improve. The thing really matters is we should absorb the merits of foreign culture and discard the harmful parts like violence and pornography. I truly have faith on Chinese culture, so I strongly suggest we should treat

3.Christmas with normal attitude, neither indulging nor rejecting.

Christmas Day, which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, is a time of love, hospitality and good will. However, it is becoming more and more secular and commercial. So, in china, when I see a whole street full of Christmas decorations, I fear that it will be a lot easier to import the commercial aspect of Christmas to China than spreading the true spirit.

Individualism

1. The origin of individualism: American Individualism has been fostered by the inventive spirit and technical advances of the country, the successful expansion of capitalism, and the liberal concept of “natural rights”

2. The content of Individualism: self first, personal need first, pursue of individual benefit and enjoyment, emphasize on achieving individual value by self-strive and self-design.

3. The effects of individualism: (1) t gives incentives to people and make them exert on their potential and wisdom and as a result accelerate the development of the entire race and nation. （2）on the other hand it is difficult to keep good relationship among people if everyone is egocentric thus make the entire society lack of unity.

4. Influenced by Confucianism, Chinese are more subtle or shy in character than the expressive Americans influenced by the Individualism. Americans are often making individual a priority, and in character they are very lofty.

5. We say individualism among all the ideas of American have been playing and will continue to play a crucial role throughout American society. Americans will try their best to meet individual requirement, which have started the engine of the whole country.

University

1. Britain’s university of Cambridge has topped the list, making it the best university in the world for science. Cambridge is the largest university in the United Kingdom. Its contribution to the world is various. There are many Nobel Prize winners from Cambridge. The mission of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Its core values are freedom of thought and expression and freedom from discrimination.

2. Yale University is one of the world’s most distinguished centers of learning and research. Originally founded in 1701, the university is name in honor of Elihu Yale. Yale University comprises three major academic components: Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and ten professional schools. The university offers outstanding facilities for research.

3. Fou nded in 1827, the University of Toronto is Canada’s largest and most distinguished