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8月26日交
: U: \0 l; h! i: }/ h. P/ I$ e4 `" X(09.02.21 NA) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Newspapers and magazines are the best ways to learn about a foreign country?
These days each and every country has spent some money and energy to learn about the other country, since the world is becoming smaller and smaller, the connection is becoming closer and closer. Through which way to learn about the foreign country, different people has different preference. However, I can hardly agree with the idea that the newspapers and magazines are the best ways, even if they do help.
Consider what newspapers and magazines bring about, the news mostly related to politics, while maybe a little with international issues, like global warming, short for foil and such things, the stories referred to some aspects of fashion in the special country, and lastly also the most easily neglected part, the advertisements. No more than the three can we learn from newspapers and magazines. So do the three utterly tell us about a certain country? If so, I am afraid a lot of employees will lose their jobs in many other cultural communication institutions, such as TV, films, writers association, and even the country’s museum. While it does not happen right now and actually it will not happen in the future.
About a country, in my eyes, the most worthy to learn is the culture, which is related to the common people’s lifestyle, their attitudes towards the national and international issues, and their ideas about the relationship between the natural environment and our human. Culture is something deposited for a long history, and reflected the most highlighted wisdom and the value system of a people. Absolutely culture never possesses contemporary fashions or immediate topics, which is packed with newspapers or magazines. To better communicate, we need to better understand the difference. It is the culture that determines whether we truly penetrate the essential of the country and aware the difference. For example, before Chinese students leave for the USA, they should learn from books and the stories of experienced people about the American most emphasized value of an efficient time management, which can be tough to learn from newspapers or magazines as I can see it.
As I said in the beginning, newspapers and magazines do help sometimes, since if we enjoy spending a whole morning to read page by page, then we can acknowledge a simple aspect of the common life happening on the interested country. For instance, maybe after 3 hours reading, we know that rarely the people meals with chopsticks. So it is a way to learn, but how could this be said the best way?
Learning from each other is a dual-win tactics nowadays. The first step always begins from learning about the other country’s culture, and there are some methods useful, while the best is never the newspapers and magazines.
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