Developing intercultural communicative skills

Pessimist View Optimist View

TV makes everyone think the same.	TV is an art from like the theater.
TV pacifies and exploits the audience. (it takes advantage of the audience.)	It is wonderfully diverse.
It is an “opiate for the masses”.(it takes away your ability to think or feel)	It unifies people because everyone from different backgrounds can watch the same thing.
TV is dominated by outside cultural influence.	New technology is important to know and use. If you don’t keep up with technology, you’ll be lost in the world.
TV eats away our culture.	TV doesn’t just show one ideology it
TV commercializes our nation. ( It makes us want to buy more things.)	shows all of them so that people can choose what they believe.
TV makes us more violent.	TV allows us to view all of the world.
TV controls the way we view the world.	Without TV we would know a lot less about other countries.