In China, the prevalence of using foreign abbreviation such as I.Q V.I.P and WiFi in publications caused resentment among people. People think that these foreign things including foreign terms are threats to traditional Chinese culture, so they keep resisting foreign things and want to preserve old things. However, the truth is, no matter how we resist, in the trend of globalization, not only Chinese, everything will inevitably change in meeting with foreign things. Change got its own direction. It can be either better or worse, and it is determined by whether people have a proper way to deal with foreign things. Therefore, to thrive in the change in meeting foreign things and ideas, we must have an proper way, and the way is to choose and take the essence from the foreign things and ideas, and integrate it with previous things and ideas.
Appiah is a professor of Philosophy majoring in cosmopolitanism, he said in the documentary “Examined Life”, “you can’t simply be partial to some tiny groups, and simply live out your moral life in those.” (00:13:25),which shows that it is impossible to keep away from strange, foreign things. Faced with unknown, our ancestor got the nature to make change to adapt to, so should we. It’s inherited by the gene. We will change faced with strange, foreign things, no matter we are reluctant or not. It is an instinct. Since the change will necessarily happen, it’s important to dominate the change and, to lead it to the direction that make things better. As the way I mentioned before is the key. But why it will make things better?
First of all, it helps make improvement and development. Throughout the human history, mankinds never stop their steps to develop, from village to town, from town to city. People desire improvement, and what people desire is what they think will make life better, so improvement and development is good. Why, as the way I mentioned, foreign ideas is able to help improv...