▶ Your Answer : There might be some people who believe that university students should be required to take at least one class that teaches the culture of a country other than their own. However, in my opinion, university students should not take a class about other cultures. First, students are too busy to take a other culture class. Second, it is better to take their own country's culture class. To begin with, nowadays, students have to a lot of things to get a job. It is time consuming if they have to take a class of other culture. Skeptics of my main line of argument may argue that this reason does not a reasonable position at first sight. Nevertheless, to their dismay, there exists an abundance of examples that substantiate my claim. Here is one of them. When I was a college student, I led a hectic lifestyle. This was because intense job competition. I had to participate in internship program, and to get job certificates. Developing foreign language is vital. Students who did all of them eventually got a job. However, students who concentrated on taking a class about other culture rather than preparing job competition did not get a job because they spent most of their time stuying other cultures. This clearly shows that taking other culture classes is not suitable for university students. On top of that, knowing their own culture well should come before taking other culture classes. This is because if they do not understand their culture enough, it is evident that they will not understand other's culture as well. The representative case that I narrated above is not the only evidence to support my view. In a study conducted recently, a significant majority of survey participants endorsed my point of view that students should not take a class of other cultures. One college student said in the survey that she disappointed that she took the western culture class because she got C grade from the class. She added that when she was in the class, she could not understand everything on the class. One universitiy professor also said that students have to understand well on the their own culture before they take a class of other culture becuase professors assume that they have sufficient knowledge about their own culture. This makes clear that university students should not be required to take a class of other culture. In conclusion, there are more disadvantages of requiring a class of other cultures for students. For these reasons, I strongly believe that it is a bad idea that students should be forced to take an other culture class. |