A substantial number of people argue that events occuring throughout the globe are useless and waste of time to concentrate. However, after some reflection, events are somewhat interconnected each other due to fast-pacing globalization which makes six continents as one Pangaea. As we live in such a broad nation, I believe that knowing events around the world is significant. This is because we can become knowledgeable result in increased perspective, and can have anindirect experience to prevent similar disaster or tragedy once occurred in the globe.
To begin with, we can become knowledgeable around the globe with the aid of television or radio. Since most events take place in outside of our home country, it is mandatory to learn about other country's problems. Additionally, we can get ourselves out from ultra nationalism by knowing more about the world status and expanding our view of perspective. One of the best examples to demonstrate this point is Iraq War in 2003. Although this war was held between the States and Iraq and took place outside of my mother country, thanks to Internet and TV, I could learn more about the war and this information helped me to use in variety of ways such as presentation or group projects in class even though it is not directly related to my life.
On top of that, information gathered from the globe such as news about accidents in France, or oil price increase in Europe actually allows people to have an indirect experience to prevent any mistakes in the future. According to the research, the investigators found out that history is circulating each century and similar events occuring today can be found in the past few times. With this fact, people can aware of similar problems and hastens them to make deal with analogous consequences. For example, in Europe, there was a gas explosion in the kitchen took place in an ordinary house and spread out through whole town making hundreds perish in agony. After time is passed, researchers found out that leaking gas result from not closing the opening of the pipe in the house. After I heard about the news, I made a habit to check my gas pipe always after using fires to avoid tragedy in the future.
To conclude, it is evident that knowing events happening around the globe is essential because we can have such a variety of information which helps me to braoden perspective, and by using the information as a maxim, we are able to anticipate mistakes and correct it properly. In this rapidly changing world as a Pangaea, we have to make sure that events around the around the globe is only one step away from our ears.
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