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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/It is almost a slogan now that thanks to mass media the world has become a global village. There is a quick exchange of information, ideas, cultures. It makes people realize that however we differ, we share some common problems and some common features, and being familiar with other people's opinions, cultures and habits we become more tollerant and more open. But there is one danger in it. When millions watch the same programmes, they become the same. They watch the same films, listen to the same music, wear the same clothes, eat the same food and have the same opinions. Thus, mass media unifying force kills individualism. Countries lose their identities, native cultural values which are dominated mostly by a commercialized, noisy, skin-deep American lifestyle.