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Opinions might
be divided whether it is better to learn about foreign countries from
newspapers and magazines than to visit those countries. To cut to the point, I
disagree with that it is better to learn from papers.
There are several values that can not be given
from papers. I agree with that it is easy to get a valuable information from
media, like newspapers and magazines, television and even web. Yet, there are
too many things we can not find out from those letters on papers. The thing we
can not watch or touch, such as the value of life or feeling from experiences. Take
my experience as an example. When I visited Australia, I researched about the
country, but when I actually be there, It was really different from what I read
before I be there. If I had not been there, I could not have known the feeling
of their accent, so as aboriginal’s music. In this regard, it is not possible
to know specific details from media.
Second, media,
like newspapers and magazines, they can not help with having their own
perspective, even if they covered with the facts. If we never visit foreign
countries, there are no way to confirm whether the media says the right thing
about those countries. The writer’s view can be different from that of mine,
but all we can do is just sit and adapt passively what they are saying about other
country.
For these
reasons, I firmly believe that it is better to look and learn about foreign countries
than read newspapers or magazines.
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