TOEFL Writing| Ads in Other Country

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Dec. 15, 2022

TOEFL Writing| Ads in Other Country

Topic:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The content of advertisements in a particular country can tell you a lot about that country. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

My essay:
Some argue that advertisements in a particular country tell you a lot about the country. However, in my opinion, advertisements, especially commercial advertisements by no means help you know the country better. The reasons for my opinion are as follows.

First of all, most of advertisements don't contain any information about a particular country, even made in that country. Nowadays, commercial advertisements aiming at making profits mainly focus on more general topics instead of topics only talked in a country. If a company makes and publishes advertisements only about their own country, it's hard for them to attract more audiences around the world. For example, most ads in my country are just about some compelling products in daily life like cheap computers and fancy shoes. These ads always talk about how fast the computers are and how to get them at lowest price, or how many functions do the shoes have. I believe you can see these shoes and computers in any country and the ads won't give you any knowledge about my country.

Another reason why ads cannot be useful references for people outside the country is that there are lots of misinformation in the ads. Even the content of some ads is actually about the country, it's probably not detailed or even totally wrong. Considering ads always try to encourage people to buy or do something, the makers tend to use some exaggerations or even wrong facts. There is no benefit to watch such ads at all. In addition, the lack of basic knowledge about the country makes foreigners hard to distinguish the fake ads. For instance, I once watched an ad on the television about my hometown and landscapes, which seemed like a good guidance to my country. But after watching the ad I found that it was full of artificial sceneries for commercial purposes and many famous sceneries were not included. It turned out that the ad was sponsored by a local travelling company and only covered the places in their route.

In conclusion, watching ads in a particular country isn't a good way to know anything in the country. This is because some ads are full of not relative and misleading information.

P.S.
Actually, the contents of today's ads are based on your information like location and language. I think it's harder to see such ads made in other countries on the Internet.

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TOEFL Writing| Ads in Other Country

Topic:

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

The content of advertisements in a particular country can tell you a lot about that country.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

My essay:

Some argue that advertisements in a particular country tell you a lot about the country.

However, in my opinion, advertisements, especially commercial advertisements by no means help you know the country better.

The reasons for my opinion are as follows.

First of all, most of advertisements don't contain any information about a particular country, even if they are made in that country.

Nowadays, commercial advertisements aiming at making profits mainly focus on more general topics instead of topics only talked ~~in a~~about in a specific country.

If a company makes and publishes advertisements only about their own country, it's hard for them to attract more audiences around the world.

For example, most ads in my country are just about some compelling products in daily life like cheap computers and fancy shoes.

These ads always talk about how fast the computers are and how to get them at lowest price, or how many functions ~~do the~~ shoes have.

I believe you can see these shoes and computers in any country and the ads won't give you any knowledge about my country.

Another reason why ads cannot be useful references for people outside the country is that there are lots of misinformation in ~~the~~ ads.

Even the content of some ads is actually about the country, it's probably not detailed or even totally wrong.

Considering ads always try to encourage people to buy or do something, the makers tend to use some exaggerations or even wrong facts.

There is no benefit to watch such ads at all.

In addition, the lack of basic knowledge about the country makes foreigners hard to distinguish the fake ads.

For instance, I once watched an ad on the television about my hometown and landscapes, which seemed like a good guidance to my country.

But after watching the ad I found that it was full of artificial sceneries for commercial purposes and many famous sceneries were not included.

It turned out that the ad was sponsored by a local travelling company and only covered the places in their routes.

In conclusion, watching ads in a particular country isn't a good way to know anything in the country.

This is because some ads are full of not relative and misleading information.

P.S.

Actually, the contents of today's ads are based on your information like location and language.

I think it's harder to see such ads made in other countries on the Internet.

Feedback

Really enjoyed reading this! I can agree that it really depends on the ads. Most of the time, you probably won't learn much about a country through ads. A better way would be to watch videos (like YouTube, TikTok or Instagram) from people in a country. You'll learn a lot more because they have different incentives.

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Dec. 15, 2022

Thank you for correction! I agree the suggestion and I enjoy watching YouTube and seeing people's lives in other countries.

TOEFL Writing| Ads in Other Country