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谢谢！

Issue 208
"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."

We can hear of people's attitudes and interests in coversation with them. But there are occassions when no first-hand information is available. The only method we can learn about their attitudes and interest is to observe the way they look, dress, and act.

A lawyer representing a black man in a case would prefer a jury made up of people of color, who, more likely show mercy on his client; A hostess could expect a female guest who wears a veil and a loose-fitting dress to be Muslim and thus take an aversion for pork; Moreover, we have generally accepted such body language as a frown suggesting frustration, a shrug indicating uncertainty, and etc.

As a matter of fact, we lean heavily on observation of the way people look, dress, and act to acquire their attitudes and interests. The police owe a lot to observation of people's look, dress, and act, which plays an important role in discerning guilt or innocence, and eventually cracking criminal cases. So does the service industry which perceives its customers' preference by observing the way they look, dress, and act, and accordingly offers high quality sevices catering to individual taste. Furthermore, what we regard as acumen or considerateness in our daily life, is often coexistent with a keen sense of observation over the way people look, dress, and act and an excellent ability to analyze the evidence for their attitudes and interests.

However, we can not correctly judge people's attitudes and interests from the way they look, dress, and act every time. Sometimes what people look, dress, and act outside is totally different from the inside, especially when they have sordid motives or are driven by vanity. What we get from outside -- look, dress, and act, then, is merely an illustion which distorts the overall picture of people's attitudes and interests. Besides, different cultural background may as well lead to misunderstanding in interpreting people's look, dress, and act. Americans, for instance, take it for granted that head-nod indicates yes, while in Nepal it means no in effect.

When it comes to people within a society, in some sense, you can tell much about a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people. This effect has been reinforced by knowledge of social background and cross-social comparisons.

There are some parts of the world where even now people, wrapped in leaves, furs and feathers, ditribute food, which comes mainly from hunting and gathering, uniformly among the community. Based on observation of their simple clothing, tool kit, and lifestyle, we could reach a tentative conlusion that they are a very primitive people and share acommon set of ideas and values prevailing in primitive societies.

Women's garment today is given much more bold dashes of design than even one hundred years ago. Such a change in the style of dress also indicates women's liberation in general. Obviously we now live in a society which puts on more emphasis on gender equality than ever before.

Taking a look at the behavior - involvement in social activities, for example - of black people in America in early nighteen century and nowadays, from slaves in plantations to citizens with the right to vote, the social and economic status of the black people has been upgraded significantly, which suggests that racial discrimination has been withdrawn from mainstream American ideas and values at present.

This advantage, however, is gradually being undermined with a growing trend of individuality and the third wave of globalization. Instead of conforming to certain criterion, appearance and bebevior of people today appear to be rich and varied. Besides, people with different social background dress themselves in the same fashion  and share the similar experience of work, study, entertainmen with the helpe of modern communication technology and mass global media. All these facts manifest that now it has become more and more difficult to find in appearance and behavior of people similarities within one society and distinction between different ones and consequently abstract a society's ideas and values.

While the way people look, dress, and act does reveal their attitudes and interests to some extent and by observing the appearance and behavior of its people you can, indeed, tell much about a society's ideas and values, no one can hope to arrive a full and true understanding of people's attitude and interest as well as a society's ideas and value by only observing people's appearance and behavior. It merely provides a possible access to them. And for in-depth look, other aspects of people and society such as speech, publication, legal system, historical background should also be taken into account. All in all then observation of people's appearance and behavior, together with other approaches, contributes to our understanding of people and society profoundly and significantly.

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对不起，谢谢

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谢谢版主大人的修改意见，我仔细读过了，言辞恳切，恰到好处，实在是极难得的评论。

六天之后就要赶赴考场了，从准备到考试只有匆匆十四天的时间，说实话，心中忐忑不安，版主是第一个帮我改作文并给予鼓励的人，感激之情难以言表。

如果可以，真地很希望版主大人可以多帮我看几篇 ( -_-|||| 好贪心的人) 毕竟写文容易，改文难啊!

Ha-ha, anyway, thank you very much!