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TOPIC 6: Culture (Cultural heritage (Historical heritage contributes to…
TOPIC 6: Culture
Cultural heritage
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Architecture plays a key role in shaping our environment. It contributes to the attractiveness of our environment
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Ancient monuments reflect the history, customs and social values of our past generations
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Example
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People wear similar clothes, rather than traditional costumes
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Modern concrete, steel and glass buildings are built in only weeks or months
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Traditional food
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With the demise of those special skills and the advance of food technology, food is produced quite differently nowadays
The change in lifestyle also contributes to the change in traditional food. The fast-pacing modern life
time-consuming traditional foods are replaced by ready made, easy-to-cook convenient foods
Lastly, the traditional food is also challenged by imported diets from other countries
Traditional customs
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We should celebrate festivals, teach traditional skills and protect historic places
Multicultural societies
Friends have different preferences in clothes, sports teams, food and even in beliefs, yet they manage to live and work together, to support each other, and to be tolerant of their respective differences
Their friendship is probably richer, more interesting and more rewarding as a result
Life in a multicultural society is richer, the range of experiences available is more diverse
yet it is only if each individual is able to listen to, to understand and to really empathize with the other people from the other culture
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Globalization
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Speed of transport for goods and people, increased liquidity of capital allows investors in developed countries to invest in developing countries
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Increased flow of communications allows information to be shared between individuals and corporations around the world
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An issue that opponents put forward is the greater risk of diseases which are transferred unintentionally between nations
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Components
Generally speaking, the concept culture is the combination of various components including
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folklore, literature, art, music
learned beliefs, religion common beliefs
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