Positive Impacts of War 战争的积极影响_战争对文化的积极影响

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Positive Impacts of War

What comes to your mind when you hear the word “war” mentioned? Gun, fire, disaster, blood, or death? Indeed, war is often aociated with those ghastly words.No doubt, war is such a devil.It can cause countle casualties, make thousands of people homele, devastate cities and villages, wreck the economy, damage the environment, destroy social order, and leave mental trauma to people who have been through it.Seeing from a broad perspective, however, we have to admit that, despite its cruelty and inhumanity was does have some positive impacts.Firstly, war helps to promote the evolution of social system.In a cla society, war is the major means of social transformation.For example, thanks to the Glorious Revolution in 1688, England succefully transformed into the world’s first capitalist country.Eentially, the so-called revolution was a civil war.The Opium War is another good example.The war, together with a series of wars ensuing it, brings the feudal system to an end and marks the beginning of China’s modern history.Such examples are too numerous to enumerate.In short, war provides much—if not most—of the impetus for social progre, especially in the old times.Secondly, war can impel science and technology to advance.During the First World War, in order to win victory, Americans invented airplane.For the first time in human history, men could set foot on the sky.Similarly, atomic bomb was invented during the Second World War, and since then, people begin to exploit and use nuclear power.And in 1957, in order to compete with the USA during the Cold War, the Soviet Union the world’s first artificial satellite, and several years later, they sent the first human being into space.A spacefaring era began.Thirdly, war plays an important role in the transmiion and integration of culture.Here a single example will suffice.In the world today, English is widely used as a language and it is adopted as the official language by many countries.The proliferation of English is rooted in war.With its powerful military force, the British Empire expanded it colonies throughout the world and became “the empire on which the sun never sets”.Along with its expansion of territory, English language—and English culture as well—spread out.The same would be true of the spreading of Greek and Roman culture through the effort of Alexander the Great and many other military figures.Apart from the above three points, war also has impacts in other aspects, such as awakening the nation being aggreed, enhancing national solidarity, uniting an disintegrated country and so on.So, objectively speaking, war has its positive effects.But by saying this, I don’t mean that I’m a warmonger.As I have said in the beginning, war is cruel and bloody.Though it has some positive impacts on the civilization proce of mankind, it’s certainly a disaster to every individual,Positive impacts of war 2 especially ordinary people.Besides, violence is never a good way to solve problems or to get things you want.We can change social system through reform instead of war;we can develop science and technology instead of war;we can spread culture influence through ma media instead of war.In a word, we can always find a peaceful way to achieve our goal.War is a devil.We can only resort to this devil when peace is totally impoible.