TOEFL Academic Discussion Writing Sample: Your professor is teaching a class on international trade. Write a post responding to the professor's question.
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Professor
Globalization has changed our world dramatically in the past decades. As the core of globalization, international trades have involved virtually all countries. As people enjoy products from all over the world, they also become generally better off thanks to larger markets and more work opportunities. However, opinions vary greatly regarding the benefits and losses of developing countries in international trades. Typically, developing countries sell cheap raw materials and low-level products while purchasing expensive hi-tech products or luxuries from developed countries. Some point out that this is actually an exploitation of poor countries by the rich ones. What is your opinion, do developing countries benefit from or get ripped off during international trades?
Claire
If one sees the pictures of sweatshops in developing countries, he/she will know immediately that developing countries are actually suffering losses in international trades. Developing countries normally lack high technology, and even if they develop their own technology, most of the international markets have been seized by early companies from developed countries. As a result, they have no choice but to sell their raw materials, if any, or labor-intensive products manufactured by their cheap laborers. To be fair, the lavish lives of those tycoons in rich countries are built on their exploitation of the poor workers in developing countries.
Paul
Much as I sympathize the poor workers in developing countries, I have to point out a plain fact: those workers would have been poorer were it not for their "sweatshops". Countries are like people: they need to cooperate and compete with each other through international trades. During such cooperation, poor countries can get their due shares of the wealth thus generated, which might not be much because they have not much to offer. But this gain is already much bigger than if they were to close their borders and rely on agriculture and a tiny number of industries. If there are no such sweatshops producing products for an international market, workers will have nowhere to earn their wages. I have another class to attend, but I will elaborate on the competition part later.
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In the debate between whether developing countries benefit from international trades, I firmly believe that developing countries will damaged by this ...
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In the debate between whether developing countries benefit from international trades, I firmly believe that developing countries will damaged by this ...