▶ Your Answer : Undoubtedly, experience plays a significant role in people’s daily lives in many of the places where they work or play. Some people think that visiting a museum is the best way for people to learn about a country, while others not. Both sides may have their own reasons to support their views. If I were asked to choose one, I would say that there is another more efficient way to learn about a country. There are several reasons as follows.
To begin with, visiting a museum make people have biased views toward a country. When we go to museum, we usually listen to the explanation of museum curator. However, they might have their own personal views, beliefs, and values toward the world. When their personal thoughts are conveyed to people, people are likely to form a skewed idea of a country. For instance, France is famous for its culture. The museum named Louvre is one of the greatest museum in the world. However, they exhibit artworks which they plundered from other countries. However, curators just explain how France is well-developed in cultural aspects. Their explanation cannot justify the fact that they colonized other countries. Therefore, people may only see a narrow part of the country by just visiting a museum, and even they can have skewed perspective.
On top of that, there exist another effective way to learn about a country. Visiting a country provides people with hands-on experience. Museum collections are only limited to the past, and people can get this kind of knowledge about historical events from textbooks. Therefore, visiting a museum is of no use to understand country. Rather, visiting a country is better for people to have a better understanding of a country. Direct experience enables people to have practical knowledge about a country. I will take my own experience as an example. I have been always fascinated with Japan. I have wondered how the Japanese daily lives would be. Therefore, I made plan for visiting a renowned museum in Japan. However, contrary to expectations, old artifacts did not have any impact on me. By chance, I joined a local community cooking club, and I could learn many things from club activities. I have become to know that Japanese considered other people by respecting each other when they eat together. Therefore, I could understand a real culture of Japan through these hands-on experience. If I had only visited a museum, I would not have had real understanding of Japan.
All things considered, visiting a museum is not the best way to learn about a country, and there exist another effective way to get to know other country. All in all, I firmly believe that the importance of hands-on experience cannot be overestimated in the pursuit of happiness in life.
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