▶ Your Answer : Some people might say that learning about
foreign countries via printing media is better than visiting those countries.
However, in my opinion, I strongly believe that visiting foreign countries is
way helpful to get information about those countries. There are two reasons. One
reason is that people can gain priceless experience. The other reason is that
visiting those countries makes people to learn their countries with having
interest
To begin with, experience is one of the
most essential factors to succeed in this world. Imagine people only have
textbook knowledge during their career life. Their views will be so narrow when
dealing with trouble. By attaining a myriad of experiences, people can not only
diverse experience but also broaden their horizon of the world as well. For
instance, I will give an example of myself. When I was a high school student, I
traveled United States of America alone for 6 months. Before I went there I only
had learned some information through that country from news and articles, but
after I arrive there was vast knowledge I could get which was also not
mentioned in the printing media and also i found that Korean is really
conservative compared to the American. So this all experiences have been a game
changer in my life.
On top of that, as most of people think, just
sitting on the chair and reading the printing media is not that interesting. People
are more intrigued by doing something such as spectating or touching or
feeling. Like there is a saying “A person who does his best cannot overshadow a
person who enjoys’, if people want to learn something more perfectly they need
to be intrigued. For example, one of my sophomore friend majors in European culture.
And he told me that he used to feel boring when he learns elaborate cultural
things of every single European country. However after he went Paris for
exchange student for 6 months, he became hard students on his own because he realize
the European culture is quite fun and want to know the more knowledge about it
since he will go back again soon.
To sum up, considering all the reasons that
I mentioned above, I prefer to visit foreign countries directly better than
just reading newspaper or magazines, if people want to learn more about those
countries. |