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The major cities, usually leading the economic development, respect some aspects of the society characteristics, indeed. However, the society is a multidimensional and complex system. To understand a society, many other factors should be known about, such as festival, traditional culture and so on.

To begin with, the major cities can delegate some aspects of the society. The economic is usually advanced in major cities, and the popular garments and culture in major cities will thrive in minor cities later. Not only these things, the modern life style is also leading by the major cities. For instance, the PayPal, eBay, Amazon and other electronic commerce services are used in the metropolis first, then with the development of fast express and other mature system, they are spread to minor cites. It is same to Facebook and twitter, which are first popular in higher education institute and collar worker. Therefore, it is somewhat reasonable that the major cities are representative in some areas.

However, it should be noticed that society characteristics contain many other matters, which are more obvious in small villages than in the metropolis. For example, the traditional dietary habit is mostly maintained in the countryside. Due to the rapid life style and high-pressure in metropolis, fast food and identical set meal are prosperous. To meet the different demands of people, who come from different areas in the world, the set meals in office buildings are usually normal and lack characteristics. In contrast, in villages, families usually have enough time and sufficient materials to prepare and cook the traditional food. Furthermore, the similar factors contain festivals, which remained significant in villages. Though the modern and popular life styles are lead by major cities, the traditional and slow life characteristics are remained in small cities. These factors are also indispensable to understand a society.

From another perspective, the society includes the huge cities and small ones, which should all be took into consideration. Though the major cities respect main trend in some aspects of the society, the number of the major cities are limited in one country. Even assuming that the influence of small villages on society is minor, the amount of the villages is huge. Because of this area and population advantage, the life and dressing habit in small cities may be more representative than in huge cities from the holistic views.

To understand a society comprehensively, miscellaneous matters should be considered, the knowledge only about few major cities are not enough. Both huge cities and small villages need to be understood to know a society.