[Ke Yang] Improve cultural awareness and do a good job in protecting ethnic and folk culture

(Lecture Outline) In the current turbulent wave of economic globalization, whether each country can continue to maintain and inherit its own traditional culture is a great test.

In the 1970s, there were still more than 8000 different national languages in the world, but today, they have been reduced to 6000, and the speed of their disappearance is alarming.

We should have a "sense of cultural crisis" and must fight tit-for-tat against cultural hegemony.

Because the current world's fashionable culture with the promotion of American values as its core, such as the Internet, Hollywood movies, McDonald's, popular songs, street dance, etc., relies on the economic strength of the United States, and has a particularly serious impact on young people in the third world.

No wonder when French President Jacques Chirac visited Vietnam in October 2004, he publicly accused the United States of "spreading a kind of uncharacteristic cultural waste around the world." He pointed out that if the momentum of this crude culture is not curbed, the original social customs and original culture of various countries will be eliminated.

"If there is only a single language and a single culture, there will be a real (cultural) ecological disaster." Ian Rolston, director of the Institute of American Studies at John Moores University in Liverpool, England, also said: "From the perspective of cultural aggression and expansion, the United States has become the most powerful and important force in the world.

The most prominent areas are Hollywood, pop music and even literature." He believes that it would be a great tragedy if the Greeks only knew Disney but not Plato; the British only knew Hollywood but not Shakespeare; and China only knew the NBA but not Confucius.

As for the young people in our country who are interested in celebrating foreign festivals, eating foreign food, speaking foreign languages, and dancing foreign dances out of curiosity and pursuit of fashion, I don't have to care.

I believe that as they grow older and enrich their social experience, they will surely have the right attitude.

However, what is most worrying is that they know very little about the historical knowledge and cultural traditions of their motherland.

Even some master's and doctoral students in liberal arts in universities often copy foreign vocabulary and concepts in academic theory, and the papers they write are confusing.

Some papers do "describe simple questions as complex and clear questions as confused", using the accumulation of foreign concepts to cover up their lack of understanding of traditional Chinese culture and their lack of written expression ability.

This style of writing is also very worrying.

All of this shows that some of our young people lack consciousness, self-confidence and self-love towards the traditional culture of their own nation.

Regarding "cultural consciousness", Mr.

Fei Xiaotong's explanation is in four sentences and sixteen words: "Each has its own beauty, the beauty of beauty, and the beauty of beauty, and the world is harmonious." Among them,"each has its own beauty" means that Chinese people must deeply understand, be familiar with and love their own excellent traditional culture.

"The beauty of beauty" means that you have a healthy mentality of a world citizen.

You must also appreciate, love, and learn from the excellent foreign culture, and achieve the goal of "learning from the middle school, learning from the west for application" and "using the west for use, integrating".

"All foreigners must rebel" is a reflection of the Boxer Rebellion's narrow nationalist consciousness of the past and should never become the mentality of today's China people and the principle for dealing with international disputes.

Being the master of one's own land and respecting traditional culture and customs is self-confidence and self-love; visiting abroad and respecting other people's traditional culture and customs is civilization and education.

In these two aspects, we must all practice them and establish a good image of China people internationally.