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 As we gradually zoom in human society. The culture evolution is closer to our life. I guess this topic will bring more personal feelings than the time we were talking about the vast space in universe. However, the more personal feelings involved the less chance that we will agree on each other. The concepts about culture come from individual thoughts. What do you think can be totally different from the persons nearby. Although, the environment has inevitable effects on people, people will process differently about the same information in their minds.

I want to talk about the question Paige brought up: Why valorize the history’s winners? This is probably the first agreement between eastern and western culture. Yes, we value the winner. We always pay much attention to the rank. During any competition, people always remember the people rank in the first. Do you still remember the second place in last Olympics Game？ Probably not. The human nature of beating each other overcome any cultural barriers and become the common human characteristics among the races. I think one reason could be the natural selection. In the ancient times, you had to run faster to survive the crucial environment. Later, you had to work harder to survive the agricultural society. Today, you need you be smarter to succeed or just survive this fast-changing society. Our human nature of beating each other maybe is the way we protect ourselves. We admire other’s success because we all want to be the winner. It’s easy to be common people and it takes efforts to be successful. Of course, different generations have different definition of success. We valorized the success because we all want to be the winner. The inner desire to be outstanding is expressed in the people’s admiration for other’s success.

The future of Languages is to be more and more simple and easy to learn and communicate. Let’s take Chinese as an example. In the past century, Chinese has been experiencing the dramatic transformation. The simplified Chinese is no longer as complicated as the Chinese was before. The initial goal of introducing simplified Chinese is to lower the requirement to receive education and easy to read and write. The evolution also resulted in the loss of traditional Chinese culture. Many people today have difficulties to comprehend the old literature from ancient times. The evolution of language not only makes the communication easier but also creates the barrier of the communications with and comprehension in the cultural heritages.