With the developments in communication, China is becoming more similar to other places in the world. In my opinion, there are three reasons.
The first is that the technology developments in China lead to this result. According to the report, in recent years, more and more Chinese use higher technology to make their life easy. The good example is internet. In big city like Shanghai, almost citizens use computer in their life to get the news and new information. By using internet, they could share the information and idea with the people from other countries. In college, if there is a lecture in the States, we could join that lecture at the same time by telnet. The facility of communication makes it possible that we could get the nearest information from other places.
The second reason is the development of economics in China. Since the opening up to the world, China became a place where foreign businessmen would like to invest. When these businessmen came to China, they brought their pattern of business into China, influencing the traditional Chinese pattern. The co-operations between China and other countries push Chinese to change themselves a lot. Only by doing so, could they follow the development of the world, for the co-operation needs the same principle to comply.
Last but not least, cultures have weighed heavily upon Chinese. Nowadays, Chinese, with their zeal to learn English, the language one third people share in the world, would like to be world citizens. They never keep their conventional cultures and take others’ instead. Many of them, just like foreigners, follow the style of western life. If you take a round in the streets, you could see many chain shops of other countries, as well as appear in China.
Of course, it is really hard to say if it is a good phenomenon if China one day becomes another country. Many scholars in China are very worry about this problem. They are afraid that one day Chinese will lose their own cultures and traditions. However, I think not It needs time to prove.
