It is important to know about events happening around the world even if it is unlikely that they affect your daily life. |
There is an argument concerning about whether it is important to know about events happening around the world or not. Some people argue that there are too much harmful events in modern society as well as it cause a lot of stress to people. In my opinion, however, I disagree with such a view for the follow reasons. First of all, through knowing about events, people are able to prevent disasters from affecting them eventually. Also, it is good for their social network. To begin with, knowing about events happening around the world allows people to prevent disasters from affecting eventually. Nowadays, a lot of people are damaged to unexpected events which are harmful to them such as floods, volcanic activities, earthquakes and forest fires. For example, tom, my friend, went to a trip at California in last spring. Sometimes thunder brings about big forest fire, so a lot of California people were injured or dead as well as their house was broken by flame. When tom started travel to California, there begun to large forest fire. Since he was indifferent to TV or radio news and newspaper, when he arrived in California, there already were generated a large amount of fire in whole of the forest and declaration of national emergency. So he should stay at a school which was emergency shelter until the forest fire ended. Also, being concerned with events of around the world is good for people's social network. It is commonly observed that people who are indifferent to the events which happen in around the world are likely to isolate conversation in schools or corporations. For instance, according to the Times, one of the most popular weekly magazines in Korea in 2007, more than two thirds of the surveyed people who are unconcerned with events of around the world responded that they often suffer from insomnia, a sense of isolation and depression. If people had taken interest in events of around the world, they would not have had to go through this awful experience. In brief, I strongly believe that through concerning with events of surrounding the world, people can keep from the disaster and maintain their social network. All in all, the importance of these benefits cannot be underestimated it the modern society. |