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2010-01-07
题目:Do you agree with the following statement? Newspapers and magzines are the best way of learning about a foreign country.
Recently, people have been discussing that whether newspapers and magazines are the best way of learning about a foreign country. While some people claim that learning a country all by newspapers and magazines is the easiest way, but I take the opposite side that only by living in a country, could one know it well.
The first reason why I hold this opinion is that living in a foreign country could give one a good experience. To learn foreigner's life, one should go to live with them, because a person could get much information,such as foreign customs and hobbies, by everyday life. To learn a foreign society, one also should live in it, because living in a society is the most direct way to experience events happen in it. These experiences can't be gotten from newspapers and magazines.
In addition, going to aboard to learn foreign life is beneficial to the world, because it may develop the world wide economy. Nearly all the countries on the world want to attract tourists, they know that tourists may spend much money on eating, living, and shopping during a tripe. By that way, many citizens could earn much money.
Admittedly, reading newspapers and magazines is much more convenience than going to aboard, but the issue are not always show the truth. In some country, like China, the medias are controlled by the government, so newspapers and magazines often show the positive side of a country which friendly to it, such as North Korea, and show the negative side of a unfriendly country. For example, hasn't my father's friend travel to North Korea, we never know how a hardship North Korean people live with. Most of them are very thin, because of lack of food, they living with hunger. According to newspapers in China, North Korean people's life is happy and rich.
In sum, I disagree with this quote that people should learn a foreign country just by newspaper and magazines since they couldn't let people know a country comprehensively and fairly. On the other hand, going to aboard to learn a foreign country is the best way. |
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