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“Tradition and modernization are incompatible. One must choose between them”. To what degree do you agree with this statement? Write an essay of about 400 words.
In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.
You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
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Tradition and Modernization Can Be Compatible
There is much debate over whether tradition and modernization are compatible.
Some people maintain that they necessarily conflict with each other, while
others argue that it is possible to combine tradition and modernization in our
pursuit of development. As far as I am concerned, these two forces undermine
each other at times, but they can also compliment each other, if handled
properly.
Most people take it for granted that modernization and tradition are
contradictory, which is true in a sense. Modernization, a popular yet a vague
term, is generally understood as "Westernization," which means individualist,
rights-based democracy, capitalism, and technological imperatives. Meanwhile,
tradition comprises the whole complex of distinctive spiritual, material,
intellectual and emotional features that characterize a specific society or a
social group. It includes not only the arts and letters, but also modes of life,
the value systems and beliefs of the indigenous people. In this sense, it is
only natural that modernization, as a foreign culture forced upon non-Western
cultures, tends to cause damage to the tradition and arouse confrontation from
the native people involved in this destructive and painful process. Where
modernization marches on, we often see traditional customs disappearing,
traditional value systems collapsing, traditional craftsmanship withering, and
traditional ways of life disintegrating. As a result, modernization has not
brought about prosperity and happiness at it promises to traditional societies.
On the contrary, we are alarmed at the deterioration of the cities and
disintegration of society—overcrowding; slum formation; breakdown of culture,
community, and family; isolation of social and age groups, etc. —as well as the
environmental destruction—water and air pollution; noise; destruction of
wildlife, vegetation and land, etc.
However, if we understand modernization as sustainable development, we must
believe in the necessity and possibility of synthesizing modernization and
tradition. Development can only flourish where it is rooted in the culture and
the tradition of each country, since it is an all-encompassing process linked to
each society's own values and calling for an active participation of individuals
and groups who are both the authors and the beneficiaries of it. The success of
Japan and the South-East Asian "dragons," is a case in point. While espousing
the free enterprise system of the western development model, these traditional
societies dosed it with more than a little government control, a form of
paternalism alien to the West but totally in keeping with their own traditions.
In the same vein, China is confidently pushing forward its development by
synthesizing modernization and tradition.
To conclude, it seems unavoidable that some traditional cultural elements
will be lost in the process of modernization. Yet any external experience,
technique or model cannot be successfully integrated by mere adopting or
reproduction; it needs to be reinterpreted or reinvented in such a way that it
can be absorbed through the filter of the society's cultural identity and value
system. In other words, any traditional society, if it aims at sustainable
development, should endeavor to maintain a mutually enriching relationship
between the external modernization and the internal tradition.
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