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Newspapers and magazines are the best way of learning about a foreign country.
When asked about how to getting familiar with a foreign country, different people hold different methods. Someone insists the newspapers and magazines are the best choice, as the topic has stated. Someone prefers to choose the movie, literature, or other art forms as a basic way to learn about a foreign. Besides some others might say why not to go abroad and talk to the citizens and live with them, which is the best way of learning. According to the above suggestions, as far as I concerned, reading newspapers and magazines is not a good way, not to mention the best, of learning about foreign country. The reasons are presented as follows.
To begin with, a 'country' is such a huge conception, which includes the culture, history, politics, economy and so on, that newspapers and magazines can not totally present. In fact, the newspapers and magazines only reports mainstream interesting topics, as well as currently happening matters. Thus it can be helpful to know about what are people in other places currently interested, however it is only partially known. For example, my foreign teacher once told me that, the first time he came to China, he only knew Chinese Kongfu and dumplings about China , which he saw from the traveling magazines. But actually not all people in China eat dumplings and few of us can do kongfu. So that is a problem when people want to know about the diversed living styles by reading materials, as well as newspaper, in a foreign country.
What is more, newspapers and magazines usually supported by government and official partie sometimes only report some "filtered" news or other information. "Filtered" information could mislead people with a wrong impression on the foreign country. For example, in the 60s last century in China, Chinese newspapers, as well as other media, were full of criticals of western countries, and people at that time really thought capitalists are monsters, and people in western countries are all capitalists. Same things also happened in the Soviet Union last century and also some western countries nowadays.
All in all, according to the above analysis, we can safely draw a conclusion that newspapers and magazines are not a good way of learning a foreign country. |
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