▶ Your Answer :
International exchange programmes had
become commercialised due to globalisation. The international exchange
programms would have provide the opportunity to broaden teenager's views while
the difficulty of adapting cultures is inevitable. However, I believe that the
international exchange programmes would have more benefits than that of
drawbacks.
The oversea visits are giving the
opportunities for broadening teenager's horizons by experiencing a variety of
cultures, customs, languages and traditions. Experiencing those aspects
(cultures, customs, languages and traditions) may enable teenagers to make own
decisions and that could make them to be independent. Also, the teenagers would
be able to meet various country's friends by living in a new environment.
Meeting new friends and talking with various backgrounded people can provide
the opportunities for the teenagers to learn about the self acknowledgement and
the enlightenment of own cultures.
Despite all those benefits, the cultural
shocks and the difficulty to adapt a new environment are inevitable. Going to a
completely diferent country, for instance travelling from Asian to Western
country, may face the cultural shocks. Even if teenagers had studied beforehand
and experienced about new cultures digitally, the reality may be different from
the digital information. This could lead children to have a difficulty to adapt
a new environment and this could result a several psychological illness such as
isolation and homesickness.
However, I believe that cultural shocks and
psychological illnesses could be caused by weak mind and the fear to adapt new
environments. Someone who has a problem to live in the new environments and new
culture, would be likely having the adaptation problems in the future.
Because international exchange programmes
could provide a wider opportunity for teenagers to get various knowledge about
the country and about finding themselves, thus the advantages outweigh the
disadvantages. |