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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Newspapers and magazines are the best ways to learn about a foreign
The globalization makes the world becomes smaller and smaller, people from every corner of the earth has(have) already learned to respect the other cultures and been trying to learn more about a foreign country. And the problem on how to study a foreign country comes with it. Though some argue that newspapers and magazines provide sufficient information on it, I believe that they are not the best methods of foreign culture studying(study), because they could barely provide information in every perspective.
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Admittedly, people could come to learn a foreign country through newspapers and magazines. Take the magazine National Geography for example. Reading National Geography, one is able to capture the basic information of (a)certain country, from the climate to culture of that area.
However, newspapers and magazines could not provide the information of an area in all perspectives. Newspapers and magazines are the works of editors; they would only represent stuffs that editor(s) want the public to know. By mass media, one could only learn the facts that the editor endows him/her to reach. For example, about thirty years ago in China, the media restriction is even more strict than Today. If one gets the information on the rest of world through them, one could barely get anything that reflects the true lives of foreigners. Even in places where there is no such media restriction, the readers could receive the same news in various edition based on the taste of editors. As mass media could hardly provide candid information, newspapers and magazines are not the best ways to learn a foreign country.
If one wants to fully capture a foreign country and its culture, the best way is to settle in that place for a while and communicate with local residences there. Take my friend Tony, who lives in America for a couple of year(years(, for example. Before coming to the U.S, what Americans in his mind is mostly sandwich, football, and TV series Friends. Settling there and communicating with local residences for years, now he learns Americans much more, from their attitude towards life to daily routine of them. He tells me that the best way to understand a foreign country is to live there, because only by this can one truly get into the inside of one culture. Otherwise, what one knows is only the appearance.8 M) w l; k5 u1 t0 k! ~2 w
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Newspapers and magazines enable one to learn other culture without stepping outside. Through them, however, people only learn the appearance of certain area. To understand the core of one culture, the best way is to live there and communicate with local people.
首先很抱歉修改的太迟了,最近忙着做翻译交稿,呵呵,抱歉啦。
你的文章很流畅,论证也很清晰,向你学习啦! |
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