○  英语演讲比赛冠军:穿越海洋  ○

eech contest. who has not come with a will to fight and who has not come determined to achieve self-fulfillment in winning the game? and i'm quite certain that if confucius had lived to see today's china, he would have been horrified to see young lovers kissing each other in public places in an unreserved expression of their passion.

it is therefore evident that we as descendants of an ancient eastern civilization are already  living under strong influence of the western culture. but it is not only in china that we find the  incorporation of the two cultures.

take the united states as an example: during the 1980s, in face of the overwhelming competition from  japan, many american companies such as the ford began to adopt a teamwork management from their rivals,  the essence of which, lay at the very core of eastern culture.

take the chinese acupuncture as another example: this traditional treatment of diseases is finally  finding its way to the west and hence the underlying notion that illness is resulted from the imbalance between yin and yang within the body--an idea which would strike any westerner as  incredible in the past!

ladies and gentlemen, we live in a great epoch when the global integration of economy and the  information revolution have brought cultures of the world closer than ever before. we live in a particular era when countries, east and west, find themselves in need of readjusting their traditional  values. we live, at the same time, at a critical juncture of our evolution because such problems as  ethnic conflicts and regional unrest are increasingly posing a threat to the peace and happiness of the  whole human race.to cope with such an era and to embrace an even brighter future, we need to learn to live more harmoniously in a world community which is becoming smaller and smaller. my dear fellow

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