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Some people may believe that reading or watching local media would help people have a better understanding of other countries. However, after some reflection, it is evident that learning about countries through media would create false knowledge and ideas about the country. This is because media contains information in favor of their interests and most times lack important details.
To begin with, I strongly believe that books and magazines give their readers the wrong idea of the country. This is largely because the media materials have a tendency to show information in favor of their own benefits. (사실은 이것이 본인의 idea 이고 이를 support 해주는 sentence 가 필요합니다. 왜냐면 첫 번째 문장은 단순히 자신의 입장을 밝히는 문장이고 이는 이미 인트로에 나와있습니다.)They usually exaggerate stories and issues in order to attract draw in more viewers. For example, when I was in Japan, it was not difficult to I was not pressed to find newspapers that said Dokdo – one of the biggest debates between Korea and Japan- belongs to Japan but and not to Korea. They used a significant amount of evidence to claim its ownership. However, the evidence was not based on real facts, but just speculations. If I were a foreigner who did not have any knowledge of the situation, I would have believed that Japan has the ownership of Dokdo. In this sense, learning about the country by reading books or magazines is not a good way to learn about a nation.
Also, interacting with others allows people to get a deeper understanding of cultures and news of a country. That is, the greater the number of people you meet, the more credible information you can have. Through this way people would be able to learn the details through this wya that books or magazines do not contain. The content of the conversation would be from their firsthand experience. To take a personal experience, I was disappointed when I went to China because I was got bored following the schedule I made by reading travel books. However, after interacting with the locals, they recommended so many interesting places to visit. Thanks to the local people, I was able to enjoy the trip to its fullest. As you can see, magazines or books usually introduce people just standard information or matters which are already popular.
In conclusion, I doubt that learning about a country by reading books or magazines will be enough way to understand with books or magazines. People should approach the locals to learn the true details about the country they are in or want to learn about. In addition, people would have wrong ideas or concept of the country since media manipulates information their information about a country which leads people to have incorrect ideas or concepts of the country.
글에 사용된 예시가 자신의 이야기만 있는데 조금 더 일반화시킬 수 있도록 하면 좋겠고, 객관적인 자료를 넣어도 좋을 것 같습니다. 수고하셨습니다~ |