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Technology is destroying our traditional culture. It's what people are saying in China as well as here in the United States. With our technological advances in the past decade, we're losing the reality of literature and the beauty in language. We're becoming a computerized and predictive society that has created issues with the older generations. The elder people within our society are watching all that they knew when they were growing up fade away into the background as the technology pushes its way to the forground. The BBC video about the Calligraphy Classes for China's Internet Generation mentioned that the traditional calligraphy that is the essence of Chinese writing and an entire section of the culture. The notion is backed up again by BBC in an article that mentions the intricacies that go into the calligraphy: the many brush strokes, the many individual meanings of each dot or stroke, and the time it takes to make one character. As it's told, the activity may seem to be overly complex and the technological advances that have been created seem like a godsend, but the loss of such an art form would be a travesty. The loss of this fantastic section of Chinese culture creates a hole in the modern Chinese nation. Imagine looking into the future and seeing the Chinese people writing in a Modern Latin Alphabet (something similar to what English is written in). How odd to think about? It's amazing to think that by 2100 there may be 7000 languages missing, according to The Tartan. What if to English was that language that disappears? But at this point, we cannot say 'what if' because it is happening now. BBC also mentioned in another article that the younger Chinese generations are beginning to add English letters and numbers and symbols to their alphabet. The "Chinese web-speak is sometimes referred to as "huoxing wen", or the "language from Mars"." and it is a new art form of its own. I wonder if the younger generations realize that when they're older, the same thing will be happening to them by the next generations. It's happening. The Tartan even mentions that the world is moving into technology in more than one way and taking another part of our culture: books. We're turning to e-readers (something I'm guilty of using myself) instead of something so simple and so divine like a book. What will we do if we cannot smell the book? What if we cannot feel the paper? Just pushing a button instead of physically turning a page isn't reading; it's surfing the Internet; too easy.
So what if we lose our culture? What if we let everything that's defined our country so far fade away? What if this happens with our language? Currently English is a worldwide language that is revered. What if it were to change in twenty years and Mandarin becomes the major world language? Should we forsake our culture and risk our language and our tradition for the sake of technological progress? Should we retain our culture and language but limit ourselves in a technologic sense? It's a sense of what we want as a society. Are we willing to give specific parts of our culture away or should we stop the progress to maintain what we have. All three articles and the movie have shown us the negativity of our technologic advances, but what are the benefits? The benefits are hard to find, but they exist to each individual person.