标题: issue208 by [728西安]小红莓 [打印本页] 作者: 小红莓 时间: 2009-7-13 21:47:40 标题: issue208 by [728西安]小红莓
TOPIC: ISSUE208 - "The way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests. You can tell much about a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people."
WORDS: 515
TIME: 00:54:06
DATE: 2009-7-13 21:33:47
There is always a debate on whether people could tell much by the way people look, dress and act and people's appearance and behavior. Different people have different views according to their different experience, beliefs, and positions. The arguer is in favor of a positive answer while I think in the majority circumstance the answer is yes but sometimes people's appearance could not reveals anything.
When people communicate with each other, one need not only to listen to what the another said by hearing, but also use eyes to feel the emotions, internal feelings, and ideas of the other one. When people meet someone else for the first time, it's the first glance that tells us the identity, favor, and more other information about the other one. It is to say, the way people look, dress, and act could, to a large extent, reveal their attitudes and interests. It could enhance the understanding of each other and promote the process of communication. For example, a person wearing gold rings and necklace must be rich and very care about the out looking of herself. With the outward manifestation, psychologists could analysis people deeply and make meaningful conclusion about what people think and like.
And, to a society, by observing the appearance and behavior of its people, we may generally know about their quality of life, degree of civilization, national belief and so on. For example, a glance of one who is covered by long clothes or white headband could probably reveal many information of him or her, such as national (a country of Middle East), belief (Islamism), and degree of freedom. Additionally, the way archeologists discover the history of old times is to research the clothes and utensil what they find. What the archeologists could conclude from those is not only the feature of one individual of those times, but also the civil and culture of the whole society, which contains its values, ideas, beliefs.
However, the outward we see may not always truly represent the interests of individuals or the ideas and values of society. Sometimes it's the appearance that blinds our eyes and misleads our recognition. Perhaps the Middle East woman is also long for freedom and beauty, but it's the customs and regulations that forced her to wrap herself to teeth. Perhaps she wants to pursue freedom like an American girl who could wear nothing on the beach and date with different boys if she wants. And a country, such as fascist, with no liberty of speech or humanity, may have a majority of citizens who values freedom, equity, and humanity but have no power to resist the club law. We could not simply judge the whole country as wildness and violence just because no apparent freedom could be seeing.
In the final analysis, to have a clear conclusion of people's attitude and interests, and society's ideas and values, one must strike a proper balance in our view of people's behavior and appearance. Even though the out looking could give us a general conclusion, without deep analysis, one should not make a hasty judgment.作者: tidejoy 时间: 2009-7-14 14:02:27