Hello 🙂
Unfortunately, Ahmed and I were not able to meet for approximately three weeks starting in the beginning of November. I have been visiting Germany for nine days and subsequently Ahmed went to Spain, in order to explore the city and region of Sevilla.
We agreed to meet again on the 22th of November, starting with a walk through the snowy city of Tampere and the Christmas market, which had started a few days before. At first, we exchanged impressions of our trips. In a nutshell, consciously leaving some details of Ahmed’s trip out ( 😀 ), I would classify the trip to Germany as more peaceful. We also talked about our plans for Christmas and our future in general. All in all, it was a really pleasant initial cozy chat.
After we have been walking around for 1,5 hours, we stopped at a restaurant, where we focused on our primarily purpose of this meeting, talking about Media in our countries as well as social media in general. Ahmed is a really good counterpart in this respect, because he is enrolled in Media Studies. We agreed that in general, the use of social media is mostly waste of time as I am using it (just checking other people’s posts). However, it could be useful as well, if it used for getting and giving different world views as Ahmed is doing it with people of his country. For example, Ahmed was arguing with an Arab friend from school about racism and different forms of racism (especially in respect of religion). His former friends claimed that racism is quite natural. Ahmed opposed this tremendously. Lastly, I explained the organization of Media in Germany (e.g. that there is a fee for governmental, but really objective news) and showed him the common new channels in Germany.
I appreciated this meeting again, because it broadened my view of the importance of social media to spread important values. Nevertheless, the negative outcomes of social media have to be considered as well (e.g. hate-speech).
Thanks Ahmed!
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