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Band 6+: Do you often celebrate festivals in your country

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Okay, well, if you look at this question from a personal perspective, I'm not the type of person who is passionate about pushing the boat out a lot. From this perspective, many types of the sought-after festivals in our culture raise essential issues such as pollution, commercialization, disruption, and even crime. For example, local communities can often be disrupted by the noise, traffic, and crowds caused by the festivals. In some cases, crimes such as robbery can be an issue during these events.

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Okay, well, if you look at this question from the personal side, I’m not that person who is passionate about pushing the boat out a lot, because from a perspective, many types of the sought after festivals in our culture deliver such kind of essential issues as pollution, commision, commercialization, disruption and even crimes. If you take disruption and crimes and as an example, local communities often can be disrupted by the noise, traffic and the crowd which are caused by the festivals. And in some cases, such sort of inquisit crimes as robbery, this can be an issue during…

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