305-大学生英语演讲稿：Crossing the Sea

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大学生英语演讲稿：Crossing the Sea

　　 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. The title of my speech

today is "Crossing the Sea" . An English poet by the name of Rudyard

Kipling once wrote in this poem "We and They" :

　　All the people like us are We

　　and everyone else is They

　　We live over the sea

　　While They live over the way

　　We eat pork and beef with cow horn-handled knives

　　They who gobble their rice off a leaf

　　Are horrified out of their lives.

　　When these lines first caught my eyes, I was shocked--how could

two people remain so isolated and ignorant of each other in the past?

Today's society, of course, is an entirely different picture. Those people

who used to eat with gobble their rice might be as well have taken to

fish and chips.

　　 Indeed, just take China as example; Our modern life has been

influenced by Western style of living in so many ways that it's no longer

surprising to see teenagers going crazy about rock-and-roll, whole

families dining out at McDonald's and even rather elderly people

dressed in Apple Jeans.

　　However, these are only some expressions of the cultural changes

taking place in our society today. What is really going on is a subtle but

significant restructuring of the nation's mentality. Just look around.

　　How many college graduates are ready to compete aggressively for

every job opportunity, whereas not long ago they were asked just to sit

idle and wait for whatever was to be assigned to them by the

government?

　　How many young people are now eager to seek for an independent

life whereas only two decades ago they would rely totally on their

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