Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive

5、Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.

Reason: It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.

117、It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are generated and preserved.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

The speaker claims that..., by pointing out that...In a sense, I do not totally agree with the reason, nor the claim based on the reason.

Admittedly, cities, the appearance of which in ancient times means a milestone of the history of human cultural development, play an important role to preserve and generate a nation's cultural traditions in modern times. Many ancient capitals in a country have developed into big cities where contain a long history of civilization and abundant cultural traditions. The traditional buildings like the Forbidden City in Beijing, for example, which symbolizes the history of the past empire and essence of ancient art, are well preserved by the government; and the citizens as well as tourists received great cultural influence.

However, it is of vital prominence not yo disregard the fact that globalization and commercialization in cities make the cultural traditions gradually vanish to some extent. Many old cities have changed into modern metropolises, the places where are almost the same. Globalization and commercialization bring the...