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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Newspapers and magazines are the best way of learning about a foreign country?
In contemporary era when being abroad becomes more and more common,sources to acquire information of an alien land have already draw our attention.Some people believe that newspapers and magazines are the best way of learning about a foreign country,while other people may choose other ways instead,movies,libraries,museum,travelers for examples.Speaking for my self,I prefer the former one.
Regarding movies and stories from travelers,indeed,they can be really interesting and it is likely that we would enjoy ourselves while learning knowledge.But this also demonstrate that we probably cannot concert all our effort on our goal and the information may be easy to be forgotten.Moreover,even we maximum our abilities to remember,the knowledge which is available in medium such as movies and stories,however,is limited.
Newspapers and magazines,on the other hand,are of all kinds and able to cover nearly each and every aspect of a foreign country,such as cultural customs,religious belives,food and the ways how people relate to each other.Taking the US as an example,we can learn about native American from National Geography,its economy from Wall Street as well as celebrities from Time...Admittedly,for people to learn about a whole country,a single kind of Newspaper or magazine will never be sufficient,thus,we have to keep several types of them.Yet,only under special circumstances when we take Newspapers and magazines of all kinds as resources of information about foreign countries,could we have a complete view of natural and civilized features on them.
As far as I am concerned,the advantages of Newspapers and magazines are also more than those of libraries and museums in the sense that the former ones are rather convenient and practical—we can buy magazines whenever we want and benefit from them wherever we are while the museums of foreign countries can be rarely found in their homeland and libraries often takes a lot of time.
Of course,libraries and museum also have advantages,such as the quantity and quality of
information.But if all these factors are compiled,the advantages of medium like Newspapers and magazines carry more weight then those of other medium.Accordingly ,from what has been discussed above,we could finally draw the conclusion that newspapers and magazines can be the best way of learning about a foreign country.
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