In recent years, western festivals such as Christmas and Valentine's Day have gained ever-increasing popularity in China, arousing a heated debate across society about what attitudes to take towards western festivals. While some consider them a threat to traditional Chinese festivals, others hold that embracing western festivals can actually bring benefits.
   As far as I am concerned, we should take a positive attitude towards western festivals. To begin with, celebrating western festivals provides people with an opportunity to know more about western culture. In today's globalized world, being familiar with the culture of one's own country is far from enough for his personal development. Secondly, the celebration of foreign festivals stimulates our economy for it enables businessmen to sell more goods than they would. Last but not least, instead of posing a challenge to traditional Chinese festivals, the import of western festivals can help people better perceive the value embodied in China's traditional culture.
   All in all, western festivals shouldn't be regarded as something to be averted. Instead, it's high time that they were put into perspective.