Chapter 15 13. Radio

one A downpour of rain suppressed the sound of reading in the school.After the rain, the school seemed very quiet.At this time, suddenly a motorcycle rushed into the school yard, farting loudly. The driver was wrapped in a helmet, goggles, jacket and trousers. He was a young man full of life and rampage.A yellow dog raised by chef Lao Li was taken aback, and chased after the car, jumping and howling loudly.Upstairs and downstairs, the windows facing the school yard were all open.In just one minute, this young man and his car gave the school the atmosphere of a busy city. The principal saw the car, stepped out and asked, "Who are you?"come down!come down!But the car rushed up to the headmaster, and then braked, took off the helmet and goggles, sat in the car and bowed to the headmaster.

You!You child, the older you get, the more unruly you become.The principal saw clearly who it was.If you crush an ant to death, I will ask your father to beat you. It's okay, my dad never hits me.When he said this, he jumped out of the car and followed the principal into the principal's office.This is what happened this morning.At noon, at the dinner table, the principal talked about his precious nephew: His family background is very good, even better than ours, but he refused to study, and he was able to be admitted to National Chengchi University, all due to luck.The school asked him to write a dissertation on the influence of radio on young people. First, he had to do a random survey to find information. This slacker, thinking of me, bowed and bowed when he came here.What a baby!

Did the headmaster promise him?Mr. Yang asked. No. rejected? nor. I think the headmaster can promise him.Mr. Yang said slowly: This is good for our students.Director Hu and I are both teaching students to write papers, methods like sampling surveys, although they don’t need them yet, it’s not bad to let them know that there is such a method.What is Director Hu's opinion? Director Hu said: Very good!If the principal agrees, the students in the two classes you teach and the class I teach can both participate. Everyone looked at the principal.The principal said: According to you, there is both public and private.His father and I have been old friends for twenty-five years.What a bit of luck for this kid!

After the meal, Teacher Yang discussed with Director Hu and came to three conclusions: 1. Make an appointment with the principal’s precious nephew to have a talk and see what he needs us to do. 2. The questionnaire is printed by the other party. 3. Gather the students from Class 3 and let Mr. Yang explain the purpose of filling in the form. two Mr. Yang's speech is roughly as follows: Dear students: You may feel strange, why did you send us a form?Why do some people have watches and others don't?Since we don't have to fill out the form, why do we have to listen to the lecture with the person who filled out the form?

Filling in the form is a trivial matter, and our intention is to take this opportunity to have a chat. Please forget about this list for the time being, and remember about the essays. Not long ago, I saw an article written by a certain classmate, he said that the radio is a harmful thing.He cited a lot of evidence, for example, the neighbor on the left turned on the radio, and the neighbor on the right also turned on the radio. The sound was so loud that he couldn't do his homework.The evidence he gave is of course true, but is the radio good?Who brings the music to our home?Who told us the typhoon warning in the middle of the night?In this way, the radio cannot be said to be an entirely harmful thing.There is also a classmate who wrote an article criticizing cars. He said that cars are devils. Why?Cars often kill people.What he said is also true. According to figures released by the traffic authorities, more than 4,000 people died or were injured in traffic accidents last year.More than four thousand, this number is not small, twice as many as the number of people in our school.If there is a kind of beast or a kind of monster that eats up our entire school, of course society cannot allow such a monster to exist.However, if there is no car, who will send thousands of students to school?Who sends thousands of students home?The bamboo shoots produced here are transported to Taipei, and the foreign cloth from Taipei is transported here, and they have to be pushed step by step with earthen trucks. How troublesome is it?We went to Yehliu to play, how many hours would we have to walk, how hard was it?So cars aren't just devils.Thinking about it further, if our neighbors love themselves more, turn down the radio, and our house is bigger and the walls are thicker, wouldn’t we be able to do our homework?If drivers were more careful and pedestrians behaved better, there would not necessarily be more than 4,000 casualties a year, maybe only 2,000, maybe 1,000, or a few hundred.Radios and automobiles are harmful but also beneficial; their harm is small but their benefits are great; their harms can be avoided, but their benefits cannot be replaced by other things.It is more fair to say this.

Speaking of this, we can see another difference between lyric essays and argumentative essays.When writing lyric texts, you can say that radios are evil, and you can write cars as monsters, which means that you don’t like radios or cars very much. What you write is your own emotions, not the value judgment of cars on radios.If you write a dissertation, you say that radios and cars are evil spirits and monsters, and you only mention their harms without mentioning their benefits, then it is prejudice and unfair.Writing an essay is a judgment, and judging right and wrong, right and wrong, should be fair.Of course, fairness is easier said than done. To take a step back, you should eliminate prejudice as much as possible and approach fairness.

Prejudice is something that everyone may have, and it is difficult to get rid of it.Recently, a thinker passed away, and newspapers published his words and deeds at great length.It is said that he said this before his death. He said: If the common people sue the officials, I will help the common people; if the students sue the teacher, I will help the students; if the son sues the father, I will help the son.When I read this passage, I was surprised: When the common people are suing the officials, do we decide to help the common people without studying whether the common people are justified or not?When a son goes to court with his father, do we decide that he should lose without studying whether the father is right or not?To think that ordinary people are right and officials are wrong, or that workers are right and capitalists are wrong, we can only say that this is prejudice.Of course, thinking that officials are right and capitalists are right is also a prejudice.Prejudice is slowly developed by many conditions. People with prejudice often do not feel it. He thinks that what he said is from conscience and cannot be wrong, but prejudice often comes out of the so-called conscience.That's why we say that the country is easy to change, but prejudice is hard to change.

(The worker brought a cup of warm water. Mr. Yang took a big sip, smacked his tongue and said: This cup of boiled water is really delicious! Then he declared: This is a lyric. The students laughed. Mr. Yang said: Thirsty is easy For drinking, people feel that boiled water tastes particularly good when they are thirsty: this is an essay. If I say that, among all beverages, plain water tastes the best, this is probably a prejudice.) A friend who is very familiar with the situation of international traffic said that when airlines train stewardesses, they are required to talk to passengers on the plane at any time to relieve the loneliness of passengers during the journey; , Do not talk about art, religion, or politics with passengers. Art, religion, and politics should be avoided as much as possible.why?Because people are most likely to have prejudices about art, religion, and politics, it is not easy to talk harmoniously.For a stewardess, she hears passengers arguing about Li Bai or Du Fu?She'd better be silent.She heard that Eisenhower was much worse than Truman as president, so she had better think of another topic.Why can't she hear Catholic nuns get married?Best not to answer directly.Otherwise, the conversation will probably be lengthy, tense, and unpleasant.From the training received by the stewardesses, we can understand that there are at least three kinds of human prejudices, namely: political prejudices, artistic prejudices, and religious prejudices.If a person has prejudices in these three aspects, he may be very stubborn and confident, just like he has the truth.

I say that there are at least three kinds of prejudices because people may have other prejudices, such as racial prejudice.Thousands of white people are rejecting black people, and they feel uncomfortable when they see black people.In the United States, there was a journalist who was dyed black and made up as a black man. He traveled to the southern states and experienced the discrimination against black people. We read his report and felt that some white people’s attitudes and methods towards black people were too extreme. Too ridiculous, too unnecessary.But they are going to do that.Under racial prejudice, Nazi Germany massacred millions of Jews.In addition, there are professional biases.People who walk always feel that the driver is driving the car and bumping into it, and the driver always feels that the pedestrian does not obey the traffic rules.The police think it is difficult for the people to abide by the law, and the people think it is difficult for the police to be honest.In the eyes of some people, teachers are all poor, and journalists are all glib.Nine out of ten patients scolded the nurses for their poor service attitude, while nine out of ten nurses complained that the patients were difficult to serve.Corporal punishment is not in accordance with the principle of education, but most teachers hope to have the power of corporal punishment, although they do not necessarily exercise this power.Criticizing a certain industry is the easiest way to offend, even if your criticism is right.In the past, there was a movie that criticized barbers, which caused a lot of trouble. Now, our movies dare not criticize any industry.

(Speaking of which, there are a few students in the back row chatting, talking and laughing. Mr. Yang stopped, knocked on the table, looked at the back row and said: My prejudice has come, I think, when I speak, You can’t chat down there. Even if I don’t speak well and you don’t want to listen, you have to bear with it. This is my prejudice. The students in the front row all laughed). I think there's also, at least there's still, the bias of geography.On this earth, some Europeans look down on Americans; in America, how many northerners look down on southerners.Chinese people also have regional prejudices. You will always hear people say that Northeast people are cunning, Shanghainese people are dishonest in business, and Cantonese people like to fight.Some people say that Shandong people are powerful, and if Shandong people can't catch up with their girlfriends, they will kill people.Some people also say that Miss Hunan is amazing, Miss Hunan loves you, if you don’t love her, she will commit suicide.These words are very problematic, but many people believe them.Taiwan's water flows westward, men are ruthless and women are ruthless.Today we are in Taiwan and know that this statement is false, but if we live in Xinqiang, there is no guarantee that it will not be true! (Speaking of this, Mr. Yang hesitated to speak, and he hesitated to speak:) I personally have personal experience of regional prejudice.During the Anti-Japanese War, when I went to Sichuan, people in Sichuan said that I was from Xiajiang, which means people from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. They looked down on such people.I told them that I came from the lower reaches of the Yellow River and not from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but it was useless, you are still from the lower reaches of the river.The Anti-Japanese War was won, and when I arrived in Nanjing, people from Nanjing called me Chongqing Ke, which means that they see you in a different light.I told them that when I was in Chongqing, I was from Xiajiang, and I suffered a lot of grievances for the word "Xiajiangren". Now that I have come to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, please treat me kindly.But it's useless, you are still a Chongqing guest.I was a native of Xiajiang first, then a visitor from Chongqing, and finally came to Taiwan and became a mainlander.look!This is really a very good novel!

(Mr. Yang's voice is a little sentimental. The audience is solemn. He takes the teacup and drinks it vigorously.) I have said so many things with only one intention, that is, people are prone to prejudice, and people often defend their prejudices firmly.Since human beings are such an animal, we writers of essays must be vigilant: Am I not writing about my own prejudices?You may not think this question is important now, but for you, the important question is how to get a top grade in composition, how to get 85 points, and how to get the first choice in the joint entrance examination.This stage will soon pass. In the future, you will find that it is not too difficult to write a fluent article or a sharp article. The difficult thing is, have you eliminated the prejudice?Both Director Hu and I hope to instill this concept in you early on.If a person wants to overcome his own prejudices and correct his own prejudices, there are ways to measure them, to have more knowledge, to listen to positive and negative opinions, all of which can reduce and overcome prejudices.Now, there is a student at Chengchi University who wants to write a thesis on the influence of radio on young people.He was afraid that he was biased, so he invited many students to cooperate.He wants to find many young people: those who live in the city, those who live in the countryside, and those from merchant families, peasant families, military and public education families, and those from the province, from other provinces, and rich , not rich.In addition, he should probably look for someone who is illiterate, who did not go to higher education after graduating from a national school, and who is an apprentice somewhere.He finds all kinds of young people and listens to everyone's opinions. With these opinions, he can avoid prejudice or reduce prejudice.Take the problem of car accidents as an example. Some people have studied this problem and found that not only the driver is responsible, but sometimes pedestrians are also responsible; not only pedestrians are responsible, but sometimes the car owner is also responsible.Not only the car owners are responsible, but sometimes the road repair authorities are also responsible. The places that should be widened are not widened, the places where red lights should be installed are not installed, and the places where signs should be erected are not erected.With this information, you will not advocate that the driver of a car hit and kills all people should be shot, or that they deserve to be killed if they are hit by a car.You can’t do this step of collecting information now, and you don’t need it. However, you should have heard that someone is doing this at this time, and you should know that it is worth doing. (After speaking, Director Hu went up to explain the matters that should be paid attention to when filling out the form, and then dismissed.) three After collecting the questionnaires, Director Hu and Mr. Yang selected several students to form a group to sort out the materials. The work distribution is as follows: The allure of Kim Seon-bo's radio. The disadvantages of Wu Qiang radio. Benefits of Ancient Renfeng Radio. Gong Mei's impression of TV. After sorting out the materials, the original watch was given to the principal's precious nephew.Director Hu and Mr. Yang guided their students to write an article.They submitted articles to radio magazines for publication, and after publication, each presented a magazine to increase interest and arouse attention. The article is divided into four paragraphs, the full text is: The allure of the radio In our school, many classmates said in the survey that when the radio came into the house that day.He is very excited.It was a big deal, he said, and he was very impressed. Before they bought a radio at home, these children had always wanted to listen to the radio.A student said that they didn't have a radio at home, but the neighbors did.Every night, as soon as the neighbor's radio rang, his little sister ran over and came back very late. When she came back, she gesticulated and talked non-stop, telling her brothers and sisters what she heard on the radio.A student said: For a period of time, after dinner every day, he moved a stool and sat at the gate, holding a book in his hand, looking like he was reviewing his homework, but in fact he listened to the radio at the opposite door. What about when the radio was bought?A student came home from school, stepped into the door, and the family members pointed to the table and said: Hello!Look, what is this!He looked in the direction of his fingers, and a pile of shiny things turned out to be radios!He stood there in a daze, unable to speak, and the whole family laughed.There was another student who, after returning home, found that there was a radio in his house. He jumped for joy. At that time, the meal was already on the table, and his father taught everyone to eat first. He finished the meal in five minutes and ran away. Go fiddle with that chime machine.There was a student who got a solid-state radio and was reluctant to let it go. When he had to go to bed, he put it on the pillow and fell asleep. The battery ran out overnight.The next day, it was inevitable to be scolded by my father, but after being scolded, I still felt very sweet. Do you wish you had a radio?100% hope to have one.From the writings of these students, we can see that the temptation of radio to children is very strong. Many parents save money to buy radios in order to make their children happy.In an alley, after most people have radios, there will be invisible pressure on those who do not have radios, and this pressure is first reflected in the children, and through the children, it affects the parents. benefits of radio When these students mentioned the function of the radio to society, they seemed to be endlessly talking about the benefits of the radio.The appearance of this thing is very dull, but the program in the belly is really lively.In the past, scholars could know the affairs of the world without going out, but today it is the listeners who can know the affairs of the world without going out.He (referring to the radio) is suddenly a buffoon, suddenly a teacher; now a sophisticated old man, now an innocent angel.Interesting!It is an encyclopedia.The words in the quotation marks are all taken from their questionnaires.Some students can discuss things from the big picture. They said: After the widespread use of radio, Taiwan will no longer be monotonous and lonely.A family is happier when it has a radio.Some students showed fine observation skills in small places; for example, the little sister who was babbling also learned to sing from the radio. Seeing her demeanor, the whole family burst into tears of laughter.For example: There is a girl in the neighbor who plays on the road every day. If this continues, she will definitely become a wild child. But later she stays at home and can’t come out because the family bought a radio. Every type of broadcast program can be seen here to be effective.Some people know major domestic and foreign events from here (20%), and some people get a lot of extracurricular knowledge from here, so as not to be too naive in the society in the future (5%).Some people come into contact with many literary and artistic works (20%), some learn English (5%), some learn Mandarin (3%), and some get composition and weekly diary materials from here. (five percent), someone learned to cook from here (one percent).Some benefits are unbelievable. A student said that he could not solve a math problem. When he heard the radio singing "Why are you crying?"One student said that the radio developed his sense of humor because he heard a lot of jokes on the radio.He wrote one of his favorite jokes on the survey form. The joke said: A said to B: Our hometown is very cold. Turn on the light at night, but the light is not on because the current is frozen.B said: If it is colder, the sunlight will also be frozen. Wouldn’t it be possible not to turn on the lights at night? disadvantages of radio About 30 percent of people think that listening to the radio is enough to hinder homework.Listening to the radio is too time-consuming, and I am addicted to it, and I don't want to do anything.Those novels and dramas are continued day by day, half an hour each time.When I turned on the radio, I thought it was only for half an hour!Who knows, half an hour is over, there is another half hour, and tomorrow, the homework will naturally be greatly affected.wrote one student. Dad found that we listened to the radio too much, so he restricted the freedom to listen to it until we had finished our homework.However, when I was doing my homework, I always felt unspeakably uncomfortable. I always wanted to turn on the radio and listen to it. I always hoped that Dad would go out so that we could eavesdrop.A student wrote this. Six percent felt that the radio disrupted the peace and quiet of the home.I don't like to listen to the programs my younger siblings like to listen to, and they don't appreciate what I like to listen to.Every night, they turn on the radio, yelling that the few must obey the many!I was so angry that sometimes I would have a tyrannical dictatorship, and maybe I would fight.Mom used to say: You must break the radio in half!I'll sell the radio tomorrow.My mother said this many times, but she didn't do it.Another student wrote this. Another student said that he likes to listen to Hokkien programs the most, and he praised stories such as Hundred Thieves and Seven.He himself admitted that the mandarin is not as good as others because he was influenced by Hokkien broadcasts.For this Hokkien-speaking audience, the composition was also not smooth. The most distressing thing for these children is the noise problem (60 percent).In school, homework is very important. After returning home, there is a lot of homework to do. However, the radio of the host’s house rang, and the radio of the neighbor’s west also rang. sound horn.No one wanted to lower their voices. Under the impact of the sound waves, those who had to do their homework became dizzy.This kind of ruthless interference sometimes comes from within the family. A student said that his uncle likes to listen to Gezai Opera. He does his homework under the Gezai Opera stage every day. Whenever he hears the radio, he is terrified.Some students have to plug their ears with cotton before they can read, and some students cannot sleep peacefully because of the noise after finishing their homework.Some children once put down their homework and ran to the neighbor's house to ask to turn down the volume of the radio. This request was not only ignored, but caused protests from the neighbors. These kids have a set of opinions about the show.Four percent thought some programs were obscene and harmful.Some of them learned to swear on the radio, and some were aroused by the characters in radio dramas and radio novels.There was a lot of brutality on the radio, they said.About 10 percent of people enthusiastically attacked popular songs, and some said that if this kind of song is known more, the country will perish.Some said: If you listen too much, you will become a showgirl.Some said: Hearing that I love my sister, I panicked.Some said: Hearing Shandong Mambo, I felt like vomiting.Panic and vomiting may be their real feelings; listening to songs can subjugate the country, probably from the literal meaning of the four words "Voice of Subjugation".Adjectives such as obscene are of course learned from parents.One of them mentioned the parents' attitude to the radio.About 15 percent clearly stated that their parents did not like to listen to the radio, at least not their children.There was a student who was terrified when he saw the radio when he was young. That monster could actually talk!Now that she has grown up, it is her mother's turn to be afraid of the radio. Every time the radio broadcasts songs like Mom wants me to marry, advertisements like menstrual syphilis, common sense about nocturnal emission and pregnancy, stories about alcoholism and prostitution The plot, the mother frowned, sullen.Another student said that he didn't have a radio at home, and his father refused to buy it, and his mother also said that the radio would teach the child badly.Because there are many strange songs and strange words in it.His family recently bought a record player, and parents choose records for their children, implementing a review and rationing system for listening enjoyment. Impressions of TV Free China has entered the TV era, and the new wave has gradually touched the hearts of children.About 50% of the people began to look forward to having a TV set at home, just like when there was no radio before, they eagerly looked forward to the radio.Many people say they don't have the financial resources to buy a TV set (30%).Some people said they could afford it, but their father refused to buy it, because once the TV came into the house, the children would not be able to study at ease (2 percent). For TV, someone wrote an interesting innocence.When he was young, someone told him that the TV not only can hear the voice, but also can see the speaker.At that time, he thought that there must be a villain hiding in the radio. The so-called TV, maybe the curtain on the radio was removed to let the villain come out? Experts have pointed out that the radio will not be eliminated by the television.However, these students are still thinking: Who will listen to the radio when there is TV (40%).