▶ Your Answer :
there might be some people who believe learning about foreign countries from various media rather than visiting those countries. however I disagree with the above idea for the two following reasons.
first, to visit other countries make us experience real things. not through travel book or each periodical but we can do everything directly through seeing, touching and feeling. these sensible experiences help us to study diverse things such as culture, food, people and idea. let me bring up my personal story as an example. I have traveled a china twice times. before I have been there, I only had learned and known china by television and travel book but going there, I had a variety of experiences. although I have tripped there for 3 days, I have gotten valuable experience and things much more than indirect means.
second, getting the information by means of media has a lot of problems. they might offer only one side opinion or ideas. therefore we believe them too strong then we are able to prejudge another countries and these believes are wrong. according to a recent research by korea government, there are found that about 60% media offer wrong information to people. this clearly shows that believing media means is not good.
In conclusion, to travel around world let us have vivid experiences so we can obtain crucial things. also learning the world via media has bad sides that have influence on our view.
for these reasons, I strongly believe that to visit other countries is good so that we rightly learn about them. |