Blog#5: Debate about tourism(Nao Murakami)

Hello, this is Nao Murakami. I'm going to introduce about the debate which we had. The topic for the debate is "Tourism helps people in tourist communities". I'm going to introduce this debate with three points.
First, my role in the debate. There were three different roles, agree, disagree and the judge. I was a judge in my group, so I had to listen carefully to each side and take notes. Then at the end of the debate, I prepare the final result and tell the reasons of decision I made to my group members. The judge also had to be the timer, so I prepared a paper with the words "2 minutes left", "1 minute left" and "30 seconds left" and put up these paper each time with saying the remaining time to make the debate going smooth.  (103words)
Second, good points of each groups. For agree group, I would say the best point was that tourism have good effect on the tourist community's economy. It sounds very common idea, but their idea was very strong to me. They said that tourist community can earn money from tourists, and also it makes the rate of employment in this community higher. Next, for the best points for disagree group, I would say that the tourism depends on various prerequisites. For instance, seasons, weather and peace and order and if the community is out of these prerequisites, tourist do not come to the community. I mentioned only one good points for each group, but there were more good points. (118 words)

At last, what I learned from this debate. I was the judge, so I could not tell my idea or think about how to reply to the other group, but I could listen to both idea equally and find the good points but also bad points. I learned that the tourism can be a very big problem. If the tourism disappears from the tourist community, it would get the serious damage in economy, but sometimes tourists causes the problem. For example destroying nature and pickpocket. So, we have to think how can we make the tourism safe. Also, in this debate, some people spoke with big voice and try to tell their idea as hard as they can, so even if their idea was very common, it sounds very strong. However, some people spoke with very low voice and ended up very early, so the idea sounds very weak. Of course the idea have to be firm and strong, but also the person who debate has to tell the idea as hard as they can. From the debate I learned that we have to be more confident when we speak our idea in debate, but also in class or our free talk. (202 words)