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speech-culture conflict First,I want to share a piece of song <Chinese> of pop group S.H.E. I think it expressed the pride of being a Chinese,and the determination of spread Chinese and Chinese culture to all over the world,which is also the responsibility of me ,as a student of Teaching Chinese To Foreigners.I never thought there were something wrong in this song until last week. One day I was on my micro blog,noticed that a famous host Dashan who came from Canada,can speak Chinese as well as natives,said in his blog,"one lyric of <Chinese>'Let the world listen to what we said carefully 'is stupid,shows the blind arrogance of Chinese". In the comments,the majority of netizens criticized his rudeness,thought it was wrong of him to make comment before understood this sentence totally.But I thought it was a little confusing,because in Chinese,you can understand this as "let the world obey what we said".but Dashan shoud have realized this is just a mistake made by lyricist.If he criticized all the Chinese is arrogant,he just made himself the target of public criticisim. But when I closed my laptop,I still thought about this.This song isn't wrong, at the same time,I don't think Dashan is wrong.Who is wrong? Nobody. What should I do when I meet this kind of culture conflict? Different race,different color,different faith,this is the way how we get together in this world,not the reason for us to quarrel.Nowadays,culture conflict has led to a series of problems,from quarrel between netizens to war between 2 countries.Haven't we witness enough tragedies?Why can't we just take a step back and look at our culture and theirs objectively?We must realize the reason of culture conflict is always misunderstanding.Let the reason replace impulsion,let us realize the difference and appreciate other culture in a rational way. [Please help me to correct the mistakes,and make it more idiomatic.Because I am going to take part in a English speech competition,the judge comes from Los Angeles]

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