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If my late-grandfather had been alive, he would have been surprised to find that I was in America yesterday, but I am here in Korea today. This is because of the invention of airplanes. Due to airplanes, people can not only go anywhere in the Earth in a day, but also know a variety of cultures and society. My opinion can be greatly substantiated by the reasons addressed below.
First of all, airplanes help the Earth become a multi-cultural society. In other words, as people can know various cultures in the world by boarding airplanes and getting there, they turn into more inclusive when it comes to cultures. For example, when my grandfather was young, there were no transportation which helped people go other countries in the Earth. He even could not imagine that there were other societies than Korean society. The advent of airplanes changed this conception totally. Now, I often visit the United Stated for business trip, or go to Greece for sightseeing. This kind of experience makes me know a lot of societies and cultures which are different from Korea. Furthermore, being familiar with exotic cultures helps people become have specific value, 'inclusiveness', which is indispensable to live harmoniously with others. Boarding airplanes, getting other countries, and experiencing numerous various things around the world, which are fantastic and invaluable human achievement in history.
Second, airplanes boost economic integration, as they play a pivotal role as a fast transportation. To put it another way, delivering many kinds of products by using airplanes can integrate many economic spheres into one and facilitate economic activities. Many economists argue that airplanes have helped the world to become more correlated with each other. According to the study conducted by Hawai University research team, economic inter-dependance between the United States and China became strengthened owing to airplanes' fast transportation help. As airplanes can deliver lots of products between them quickly, both countries no longer focus on what they have a comparative disadvantage. For example, China which has a cheap labor makes clothes and export them to the United States, whereas America which has a high technology skill concentrate on IT products and export them to China, using airplanes as a main method to exchange products. This mutual interaction makes them together and helps to achieve economic integration.
All things considered, airplanes have transformed our modern society dramatically, from the point of economy as well as from the view of culture. This change will continue in parallel with the improvement of airplanes. |