Chapter 50: English Debate Competition
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Today, the students in the dance class actively practiced the four dances and specially recorded a video. After the end, when the students were still discussing, Zhang Yang hurriedly changed his clothes, followed by Li Yinghui and Meng Ziqiao, the head of the music department, and the three of them hurried to participate in the English debate competition.
The debate tournament was held in the activity building where the student union was meeting, and by the time the three of them arrived, many people had already gathered inside. Because it is an English debate, it is obvious that the number of people is not particularly large, if it is a Chinese debate, it is definitely not this number, it is said that Chinese debate is first a college competition, and then a whole school competition, in Zhang Yang's eyes, it is a very unchallenging activity.
The main purpose of the English Debate Competition is to promote international students and Chinese students to better learn international culture, each person's background is different, the growth environment is also different, and the understanding of domestic and foreign cultures will be different, so through debate and learning, you can better broaden your horizons.
After Zhang Yang and the others arrived, they sat on the guest seat of the Academy of Arts, and Zhang Yang recognized the old professor of the Faculty of Arts who was speaking, sitting next to him were two Chinese teachers and two foreign teachers, and there were classmates from the student union behind him, and in the middle was the venue for the debate competition. While the professor was talking about the rules, a student council member was holding a stopwatch timer while making a demonstration.
As he was talking, Zhang Yang saw Liu Zhenming suddenly come in and sit in the vacant seat next to him, because it was an eight-person duel, a team of four, and there was no one to make up, Mencius Qiao simply pulled Liu Zhenming to make up the number.
Zhang Yang observed the number of people in the guest seat, Ma Liya, Lisa, and most of the members of the English corner that he usually saw were there, and among the international students, he was looking forward to those few Japanese, speaking standard Japanese English would definitely make the opponent desperate. Zhang Yang saw that Zou Xuan and Lin Qianqian also came to participate, and the two of them greeted him, Zhang Yang responded, Lisa thought she was greeting her, and she also responded.
As the old professor announced the official start of the debate competition, the first group on the court was a Japanese, a Korean, a Filipino, plus an American, which could be judged from the name and appearance, and the other group was four Chinese from the English department, as the timing began, everyone began to debate with the manuscript, the Japanese spoke well, and the Chinese students almost had their own accents. The rules of the competition are that the team with the highest overall score wins, and each stage will be scored by judges. Eight teams chose to support international cultural integration, and eight did not. Among the international students, everyone chose support, Zhang Yang also chose support, and he was also the only group of Chinese, and the opposite were students from various colleges, including Zou Xuan and Lin Qianqian.
The debate competition has been very intense, students from other countries are in favor of integration, and the positive side has explained that the benefits of integration outweigh the disadvantages, and cultural integration does not mean forgetting, no matter which country, even if the integration of new culture, they will still commemorate their own unique culture; He also said that if they are separated and independent, they will easily become polarized, and even become uncontrollable, and they are likely to be in a state of mutual hostility. The argument of the opposing side is that forced integration will only backfire, it may lead to a big mistake, and it will lose the ancestral civilization, indicating that the new culture cannot be forcibly integrated into a unique characteristic culture, and even cause the loss of civilization!
The selection of materials is very wide, Confucianism, philosophical thoughts, and all kinds of arguments are really eye-opening. In particular, many of the statements of foreigners have not been heard by Chinese students, and the ideas borrowed by Chinese are also not well understood by foreigners. In this way, it has always been in a state of no distinction between the top and the bottom.
After a period of debate, the team with the highest score is currently Maria's team, all four of her team are Americans, and the speed of speech is very fast when expounding ideas, very in place, and the opponent basically steps on the end point after speaking, and there will be times when he stutters, after all, English is their mother tongue, even if the opponent is an English major, they will definitely not be able to speak them.
In the last group, when the host introduced that the team was from the Faculty of Arts and the other party was from the Faculty of Arts, everyone assumed that the Faculty of Arts must have very strong thinking skills and would definitely win the competition. And Li Yinghui and a few others also told the English teacher in advance that several people were here to play soy sauce, so the teacher was not optimistic about this college, so it was a friendly exhibition match.
After entering, Zhang Yang's team spoke as a positive party, Zhang Yang let Li Yinghui appear, read the arguments he had written, the duration was three minutes, Li Yinghui seemed to have worked hard, spoke very skillfully, and the content expressed by Ma Liya is not much different, the general argument is that the future will be an international win-win era, only integration will have development, if the country is closed is to draw the ground as a prison, it will only stagnate, the people's quality can not be improved, and in the end can only become a flock of sheep to be slaughtered.
The arguments of the opposing side are basically similar to those of the English College, although the fluency and expression ability of English are worse than those of the English Department, but the spokesman of the opposing side, English is better than Li Yinghui, and the vocabulary is also very good, probably the argument is that history has passed, but it cannot be forgotten, it is the efforts of the ancestors that have today's China, the Chinese civilization has been up and down for 5,000 years, broad and profound, the ancestral civilization should not be discarded, should remain independent, should not be mixed with other ideas, should not interfere with each other, independent development. As soon as the arguments came out and the proficiency in oral speaking, it was basically decided that the Faculty of Letters would win.
However, when it came to the Q&A stage, after Zhang Yang stood up, he didn't need to write a manuscript, and the question he opened was, since the opponent wants to maintain independence, can you not use any high-tech products from Western civilization? You can live in the deep mountains and old forests every day without contact with modern civilization, recite the four books and five classics every day, the three virtues and the four observances, and bow your head and obey the bows every day when you see the powerful.
Two questions thrown at once, this is sophistry! The other party's preparation was completely insufficient, involving a wide range of cultural levels, the answers were ambiguous, and the professional vocabulary was inaccurate, and the momentum disappeared in an instant. When the other party raised a question, Zhang Yang directly answered his two questions, saying that today's socialist countries are the product of international cultural integration, and it is because they were corrupted by those self-contained cultures before, that they are full of holes and let others ravage, how many wars have there been since ancient times? How many people died? Throughout history, only following a unique culture leads to extreme evolution without control, and eventually we will die under our own ignorance, and if there is a day, we will still be bullied by various hegemonic countries, and we will be enslaved again! Is this what you want to see? If not! Only by developing together, integrating with each other, making progress together, and walking forward with a pair of pants, can we move towards a bright future.
The flamboyant triptych questioning, coupled with the authentic American English, impressed all the teachers, and the old professor who translated also stood up to applaud him after the debate, such a result was beyond everyone's expectations, Li Yinghui and others couldn't believe it, there was no manuscript, he opened his mouth to come.
(End of chapter)
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