Television Has Had a Significant Influence on the Culture of Many Societies. to What Extent Do You Think It Has Positively or Negatively Affected Cultural Development?

Watching television has been recognised as an effective learning method, because audio-visual information can attract people's attention and foster their cultural awareness. Although some people believe that it has some advantageous effects, I think that television has some negative impact on cultural development.

Many people believe that television damages culture. It promotes the stronger cultures of countries such as
North America and Britain and weakens the cultures of less wealthy countries. The main reason is that the stronger, wealthier countries are able to assert their own culture by producing more programs that are shown widely around the world. These programs then influence people, particularly young people, in the countries where they are shown.

Television also has some negative effects in terms of assimilation and cultural erosion. Currently, because television networks need to attract large audiences to make maximum profits, action Hollywood films, romantic Korea drama series are more and more predominant in TV shows, putting traditional artistic types such as indigenous music and classical drama at the risk of sinking into oblivion.

Nevertheless we much acknowledge that television does have some positive effects on the cultures within a society as well.
People who do not live within their own culture can, in a limited way, access it through the multicultural station on the television.
For example, Migrants and international students can watch programs from their own culture on the television.

In conclusion, I hold the view that television promotes and strengthens those cultures that are wealthy and influential while it weakens the cultures that are already in a weakened position.