Since the reform and open, we absorbed a lot of things from the western country. We know every coin have two sides, so it is. Someone think that the western culture irrigates the development of our country, but the other thinks that we lost much than what we got. But as far as I concerned, the advantage is more obvious.

Looking around us, what do we find to be the real influence of Western culture upon Chinese society?

First of all, the status of women in the society changes. For example, traditional Chinese people think men and women are not equal which is influenced by Confusion. Women’s job is just taking care of babies or doing the housework. However, the Western culture tells us we should give men and women the equal right. More and more talented women use their own ability to improve them—they can do what man can do. So we should thank those people who fight for the women’s right in the early western counties.

Secondly, lots of new science and technologies are introduced into our country, which indirectly improve our living condition and the quality of the society in recent years. We can see the lifestyle becomes different. It means our life become more

colorful.At this aspect, it should be extremely necessary to put it into the spotlight, for

 it is the major achievement the western culture made.  We no longer only wear Zhongshan fu, in stead; we have more new modern clothes, different color, different styles. We begin to know how the westerners celebrate their own festivals. So these are all very new and fresh for us, which we are more likely to imitate. The Valentine’s Day enrich the life of lovers, and it is really so romantic. The Christmas let you experience the different custom. People become open, they want to take those new and interesting and exciting things which they haven’t tried before.

Thirdly, language, like cultures, is influenced by the western culture. The necessities of intercourse bring the speakers of one language into direct or indirect contact with those of neighboring or culturally dominant languages. We borrowed a lot of new words from western countries, such as sofa(沙发), Coca-Cola （可乐）, coffee（咖啡）,www(万微网)，GDP(国内生产总值), cool(酷). All of these words make our life more convenient and interesting.

Fourthly, some good elements of Western culture do affect Chinese society. For example, in modern western society, the lives of most old and disabled people are secured by perfect social insurance system so the prevalence of individualism has few problems here. We learned from them to establish the social insurance system, and accomplished it step by step, so more and more disadvantaged people’s life are insured in Chinese society.

Finally, as we have proved, Chinese traditional culture is enriched by Western culture. What we should do now is how to benefit from the influence, at the same time we can make our Chinese culture brighter. One famous figure in Western culture, Jesus, asked “What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Our answer is we will gain the whole world without losing its own culture.

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