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1月7号
Do you agree with the following statement? Newspapers and magzines are the best way of learning about a foreign country.
很久没有写 大家指点
To learn about a foreign country, people should get contacts with the country, such as relating to the people of the country, knowing their culture by experience. Through reading newspapers and magazines are one of the good ways to have this kind of contact, but are far from the best one.
Reading newspaper and magazines are simply demanding one of our five senses, that is sight. Though through reading, we can imagine their delicious food in our mind, we can never have the real feeling of tasting it with our tongue. We can see the magnificent Tower in the picture of a magazine but can not touch its cold iron structure with our hands. Through reading one may think at least it is the best way to know the language of the country. However, without body language and eye contact, one missed lots of information relating to it. The movie Food,Pray and Love described a sad American women travelling to Italian with little knowledge about their country. She, however, learnt a lot about the country. When walking on the street, she saw Italian's various body languages, and almost everyone enjoys making the body language vigorously. They even told her that Italian use their hand to communicate, so if you learn Italian without knowing about their body language, you will never talk like a real Italian.
So when we want to get down to know a country lively, we should call on our five senses.
Reading Newspaper and magazines only provide you with one perspective from the editors and writers, but not including the direct view of the scientist, the common workers, and so many other groups of people. Though one may argue that newspaper can describe the real life of all kinds of people, but they overlook an important point is that mass media tends to discover the unusual or extraordinary sides of the life. Thus the common part of the life is rarely reported. The basic value shared by the majority of one group of people but seemed unfamiliar to foreigner is not introduced through the media. Workers in Japan tend to work more than their boss demanded willingly, but these may not be covered in newspapers. Drivers in German rigidly follow the traffic rules, and this not likely to be see on magazines as well.
Besides, even one can not have the access to the country, he have much more media than reading materials to get information from, such as Internet and television. In my point of view they are much better method,because sound and motion are involved. Thus Newspapers and magazines are not even the best way of getting information, let along the best way of knowing the entire country.
As a conclusion, one should make much contact with the country to get a well-rounded view of it. Newspapers and magazines may be a good way and the fist step to trigger your interest but not the best one. |
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