Response of language study in culture impact

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TESOL-MALL (Postmodernity & ELT) Response of language study in culture impact

Nearly three decades of reform and opening up, China's comprehensive strength was improved, while Chinese culture has also been affected. Obviously the young Chinese learning some foreign languages, and result of the neglect of their own cultures. Such as the impact of Western Festival Culture. The young people are very enthusiastic about the Valentine's Day and the Christmas Day. And most of them are prefer foreign films or TV dramas to homebred.
I had heard that a survey showed 70% of young people know the source of Chinese New Year but to know the source of Christmas was 80.5%. We can see that Chinese young people's degree of concern to foreign holidays is much more than traditional festivals in China. Half of them thought that the Chinese New Year grew weaker and weaker and chose the Christmas instead of Chinese New Year. I think the important factors led to such phenomenon probably is a modern way of life, colorful leisure options and the invasion of foreign festivals, and etc. Though the foreign culture far from the mainstream, its effects increasing, and become a problem which can not be ignored.
Almost young Chinese people think that Christmas is fun than The Chinese New Year. On Christmas Day, some people shopping, some people go to watch a movie, some dinner with friends. It seems a Chinese style Western Day, but still keeps the impact of foreign culture invasion.
The culture of movies. The numbers of Chinese young people who likes watching foreign films is far more than the domestic films. The last film AVATAR was reached at full box office record in many Chinese cites. Compare with the same period Chinese movies, it was much more popular. Not only the U.S. film and dramas accepted by more and more young people, but also the Japanese and Korean sweeping in China in recent years. Not so much that young people study language in order to watch a drama might as well say they watch movies in order to study a language.
In conclusion, the invasion of foreign culture lead to the impact of China was relatively large, but it did not shake the fundamental. On the contrary, such an impact is beneficial and worthy of promotion, conducive to promoting Chinese national cultural development and independent. As we thought a country's independence is not just politically, both the economy and culture should be independent. Under the constant integration, the culture can get better development.