Frank. So, in recent years, environmental issues have become a growing concern in the world. People all over the world are becoming more aware of the environment. It’s not just a European thing that people recycle, but you’ll be able to find recycling happening all over the world. The environment is becoming a global concern and the logical and rational reaction is to recycle used materials. We both think that the environment is important, but we believe in different method of doing things. I believe in recycling the trash, and you believe in letting someone else to recycle the trash for you. And it’s the same concept about wars and world peace. We all think that wars shouldn’t even be happening in a civilized, modern society, however from a personal point of view logic tells us to look out for ourselves and families first. This common belief overshadows the importance of a peaceful society. For example, some government and companies, believe that wars are beneficial to the country for their personal benefits such as making a lot of illegal money and smuggling weapons.
Susan. Aren’t you just proving my point that logic and reasons are based on cultures? Ever since the Korean war ended, Korea has divide itself into the North and South. Although that Korea is used to be the same country a major reason that it has separate into two is because they have very different cultures and understandings. North Korea, being the more conservative country and uses the Communist leadership and style of ruling. Whereas the South Korea is much more liberal and opens to the outside world.
Frank. That is true, but I also come to think of the Korean situation as this. Because the North Korean people are under pressure by their government and secret police unit, they must outwardly follow and show support for the government. Remember the scene that when Kim Jung Ill died recently? The entire population was shown weeping in public. Do you think that it was because that was really sad and everyone loved him? Would they be weeping if they have the freedom like South Koreans do? You can’t really say the case of North Korea is based on culture logic if they were forced to cry for the death of leader. Also, if all of the North Koreans believed that their government was right, they wouldn’t risk their life to escape out of the country. It is true that I can’t really speak for the Korean situation since I’m neither a North Korean citizen or a South Korean citizen, but this is how the world have viewed the Korean peninsula situation according to news media all over the world.
Susan. I still think that logic and reasons are based on cultures. In traditional Chinese and some Asian cultures, people believe that men’s social status are higher than men, and men should be the dominant leader in their family. The reason behind this is that men are masculine; they’re able to do agricultural and forced labor work. Women on the other hand are weaker, and girls are raised to get married so girls wouldn’t benefit their family after they were married.
Frank. Speaking of Chinese culture, do you know that China is transferring from an undeveloped country to a developing country? Before, there was a long period of time that China was isolated from the West. However after they reopened themselves with the West, their beliefs and superstitions have started to change. Today China’s views are more connected globally. The society and the people’s knowledge and education are also changing rapidly so that women are slowly getting more rights. For example, Chinese parents used to wrap up their daughter’s feet so that it looks good for marriage and man like woman who couldn’t run away from him. However in the 21st century, Chinese parents no longer wrap their daughter’s feet with cloth or bandages, they even send their daughters to schools and get educated. We can see cultural objective reasoning can be changed overtime and people were able to accept new logical concept worldwide.
Susan. So the knowledge issue you have bought up is that reasons and logic can be changed overtime and people are able to adapt and accept to the new changes. If a reasonable reason in a culture is contradicted and is proven to be unreasonable in other places worldwide, than the culture will shift towards making that reason to be reasonable universally. In conclusion, doesn’t matter where you are, there are a number of things that people around the world all agree together.
Frank. Yes, that is correct. That is why people’s commonsense can be accepted universally.
Reflection:
After looking at my previous work, I saw that my main points were clear, but they weren’t worded in a strong and vivid way. Therefore I have expanded on a lot of my points to make the examples more relevant to the debate between Susan and Frank. I especially changed on one of the paragraph that I didn’t like which is when Frank talks about Korea. Before I said that it is necessary to protect for their country however the new point that I have included which is North Koreans are under strong pressure so their behavior is rational in terms of survival. If their government was more liberal, they would have reveled their true thinking. Other changes that I have made were minor spelling and grammatical errors.
