Some people say that music is a good way of bringing people of different cultures and ages together. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Music
can stimulate our minds and bodies and
also
offer some temporary relief from mental agony and sadness.
Music
probably can do many other things, but it can not bring
people
of different
cultures
and
ages
together.
And
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essay will explain why we can not rely on
music
to accomplish
such
a difficult task.
Music
has some elements and qualities to bring some like-minded
people
within, not outside of a certain
culture
, country or nation closer together in a common bond because the tone and tune of that
music
sound so familiar to them. Many
music
lovers even suggest that
music
is the food for our soul, regardless of our age. True that may be, but when we are pinning our hopes on
music
to unite
people
of different
cultures
and
ages
, we are becoming too
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optimistic, to say the least, because
culture
is a very difficult subject to understand and so is “human nature”.
Culture
is not only about what we like to listen to, or what we do not for some temporary pleasure or gratification. Rather,
culture
, among other things, very predominantly is
also
about “how we are so dissimilar to each other”, and it is essentially
this
“wish” or “sentiment” that helps us cling to our own ways of life, no matter how “peculiar” or “weird” that may look to other
cultures
. It is because of
this
strong “sentiment” that even though
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almost all the countries in the continent of South America essentially speak the same language or practice the same religion, they are not merged into only one country. The same applies to different
ages
as well, and
that is
why we see, more often than not, that
while
a young guy likes some heavy rock or heavy metal
music
, an older person likes a more traditional or classic type of
music
. So, from the discussion above, it should be fairly clear to us that
music
is important for our life, but it is not a good way to bring
people
of different
cultures
or
ages
together.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • universal language
  • evoke
  • connect
  • diverse audiences
  • cultural exchange
  • generational gaps
  • shared experiences
  • unifying force
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