Are traditional skills disappearing? In the past, many people had skills such as making their own clothes and doing repairs to things in the house. In many countries, nowadays, skills like these are disappearing. Why do you think this change is happening? How far is this situation true in your country? People used to have skills like their own clothes and doing repairs in their house. But recently, these special skills are disappearing in many countries. So there is a question: why the change is happening? Let me tell you something about this. Nowadays science development is better than before. For example, we used to take care of the flowers in our garden by ourselves. But now, we can use a electronic system to do this all. Another important reason is that, in this generation, development of industry have a rapid progress. If our house’s roof is broken, there are two choices. We could fix it by wood but we should make the wood board by ourselves. Or we can buy these stuff in the supermarket. I think most of us would choose the second way. It is more convenient. Last but not the least, nowadays, people have more work than they used to have. Most of them have less spare time than before. They have no time to deal with the problem like car broken or dirty clothes. So they prefer paying to get a machine to do it rather than waste their own valuable time. In my country, China, we have two different situations. In west region of China, people there use these skills to make a living because there are poor of science and industry. On the contrary, in the east of China, the science and industry are better than the west China, so most of people in the east of China have forget these special skills.