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Cro the Sea

Good afternoon, everyone.The title of my speech today is “Croing the Sea”.I once read the

following poem:

All the people like us are We

and everyone else is They

We live over the sea

While They live over the way

We eat pork and beef with cow horn-handled knives

They who gobble their rice off a leaf

Are horrified out of their lives.When these lines first caught my eyes, I was shocked--how could two people remain so

isolated and ignorant of each other in the past? Today´s society, of course, is an entirely different

picture.Those people who used to eat with gobble their rice might be as well have taken to fish

and chips.Indeed, our life has been influenced by Western style of living in so many ways that it´s no

longer surprising to see teenagers going crazy about rock-and-roll and elderly people dreed in

Apple Jeans.However, these are only some expreions of the cultural changes.What is really going on is a

subtle but significant restructuring of the nation´s mentality.Just ask anyone who participates intoday´s speech contest.Who has not come with a will to fight and who has not come determined

to achieve self-fulfillment in winning the game?

It is therefore evident that we as descendants of an ancient Eastern civilization are already

living under strong influence of the Western culture.Ladies and Gentlemen, we live in a great epoch when the global integration of economy and

the information revolution have brought cultures of the world closer than ever before.We live in a

particular era when countries, East and West, find themselves in need of readjusting their

traditional values.So to cope with such an era and to embrace an even brighter future, we need to

learn to live more harmoniously in a world community which is becoming smaller and smaller.Therefore, it is our responsibility to promote the cultural exchanges and hence the mutual

understanding between China and the rest of the world.Finally, I would like to quote the poem again:

All the people like us are We

And everyone else is They

But once you cro over the sea

You will end by looking on We

As only a sort of They.Thank you.