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8月26日交
(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
It takes quite much effort to learn about a foreign country comprehensively, for this mission demands too much, like to know its history, to learn its current statues, to understand its people and to be familiar with its culture. Because of that, I truly owe my gratitude to media like newspapers and magazines for bringing me numerous information of the world outside. But I could hardly agree that newspapers and magazines are hence the best ways to learn about a foreign country.
A good part of paper media is filled with news of current events, and by reading that people can only catch a glimpse of the political, economical, and sometimes military outline of a foreign country, but miss a even more wonderful part, like daily life of the local people, most valued belief and its influence around the nation, or its proud history and the historical spirit still seen here and there. In other words, newspapers and magazines could only convey literal, official, cold information about a "nation" politically existed somewhere on the planet, but people eager to get in touch with a lively and vivid country, as much as they eager to know more about a person than his/her biography.
In addition, there are occasions, either unconsciously or deliberately, that information conveyed by media is not true. There are countless reasons for this distort, authorities may hide information for own interest, media may misrepresent information because of prejudice, readers could also misread the news for the same reason. In short, people are easily misled when they read from newspapers and magazines. For a general instance, just think about how different countries interpret a same event in distinctive ways, especially at situations that an unfamiliar foreign country holds a conflicting value with your own.
So in my personal view, I prefer to travel to the country which I am longing to learn about, and talk to the local people, feel the life style and experience the events by myself rather than imaging them through news. This however, has its own disadvantages so I would not call it as a best way.
In my opinion actually, there is no such best way at all for people to simply follow and then know a country in every respect. I suggest we read and also experience as much as we can, and grasp every opportunity to learn about a country. |
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