▶ Your Answer :
The statement claims that the characteristics
of major cities in a society can represent the most important characteristics
of it. In my opinion, to answer whether the statement is agreeable or not, the social
communication between the cities must be a paramount factor to be considered.
Thanks
for increasing development in technology, the world has become a monolith. Alongside
the trend, communication between numerous cities has become easier and conventional.
It takes no more than a minute for a person living in California to know some
daily happenings in New York. Then, consider a society several hundred years
ago. It would have taken more than a month to hear some news of New York. This difference
critically affects us when we are to think of relationship between characteristics
of a society and those of the cities of a society. In today`s society, I think, the characteristics of major cities actually
the result of the amalgamation of various characteristics from other cities;
thus, they can be a representative when explaining a whole society. This is all
because of the advance in technology, making it possible for one city to effectively
accept a plethora of cultures from other cities.
One
could argue that there always are some special traits of a city which are differentiated
from others, and these cannot be the representatives of a whole society. However,
when it comes to think of the "most" important characteristics of a
society, a previous argument is not convincing for special traits are the minor
characters. Take a person traveling Germany for an example. He or she can learn about
the most important characteristics of Germany by traveling major cities,
Berlin, Hamburg and so forth. Thanks to the development in transportations, people in Germany can
freely move one place to another. As a result, the gulf between one city`s living
cultures and other cities has been narrower. Therefore, a person traveling the Berlin
can presumably experience all the representing traits of Germany, for example,
valiant and martial propensity of German.
In
summary, by studying major cities of a society, one can understand the most
momentous characters of it. If there had not been such radical development in
technology, the statement would have hardly been acceptable. 한 번 템플릿에서 완전 벗어나게 써볼려고 했는데, 글이 전달이 될런지 모르겠네요 ㅠ. 내용도 좀 부실해보이군요 흑..
|