"Governments Must Ensure That Their Major Cities Receive The Financial Support They Need In Order To Thrive, Because It Is Primarily In Cities That A Nation's Cultural Traditions Are Preserved And Generated."
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"Governments Must Ensure That Their Major Cities Receive The Financial Support They Need In Order To Thrive, Because It Is Primarily In Cities That A Nation's Cultural Traditions Are Preserved And Generated."
While nearly everyone would agree in principle that certain preservation of a nation's cultural traditions represented in major cities is in human being's best interest, government is responsible of making ceaseless effort to sustain the nation's major cities to thrive, thus achieve this goal. The responsibility, however, is not circumscribed just within supporting major cities.
Experience tells us that major cities, the most developed part of the nation, are always the political, artistic and historical centers, which represent the character of the society and gather numerous significant documents and art works. They attract political elites, talented artists, and giant thinkers, lead the fashion and create the future. Cultural traditions commonly commence from these minorities and then spread all through the nation and become pervasive. Even the cultural traditions first appearing in the rural places tend to transfer and be involved in the major cities' current fashion. Thus, a nation's cultural traditions, present or historical, are put in capsules and stored in these few.
These treasures, although precious, are vulnerable and suffering from modern development and widespread globalization. What's more, individuals and organizations inherently tend to concern their temporal economic and political interests, and are disinclined to make sacrifices for the protection and preservation. Aside from their unwillingness, these treasures, a nation can ever possess, are too large in scale for any individual or organization to protect and preserve on its own. To the extent that the society fails to assume the responsibility, government participation seems necessary.
Admittedly, the financial supports for the preservation add to the tax burden of the citizens. But one also has to admit that, the duty is of the nation, not just the government. Government carries these treasures but does not own, protects them and in turn passes...
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