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ISSUE208 second edition:
第二稿,其实是重写了一遍
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 people..
Let’s go into a room where there is a conversation between an American and an Iraq man. It is about a great deal of goods and they are both quite interested in it. It’s about one meter between them. Suddenly ,the Iraq man move forward to the American. The conversation doesn’t stop but the American move backward unconsciously. After the conversation with a good ending, they find they’ve moved several meters from the former spot.
The act of a person can reveal the ideas and values of the society he or she has lived in, In Arabic country, if a man move towards you ,he is showing his interested in you or the topic. They once lived in the grassland and like to show their friendship by intimate touch. If he take you as best friend, he even will pat your shoulder when talking. However, in the US, people want to keep a certain room of himself. If anyone break the boundary ,he may feel threat So it’s the society that determine a person’s ordinary act and the act can reveal the society’s ideas and values. If you are a lucky traveler who can visit many countries, you will find the large difference of behavior all over the world.
Emotion is common among human being, but how to express it depends on the certain background of culture. In western countries, people would like to show their emotion frankly while in Eastern countries people are asked to restrict the expression of passion. An American may yell loudly when feeling happy, well, such as get ”A” at exam, but a Chinese ,under the same condition ,may just show a slight sweet., The little difference of emotion reflect the large difference of idea and value between two culture.. In the US, it’s encouraged to show a person’s special feeling, as part of personality to others. But in ancient Chinese, people especially girls can’t show his or her personality too much too others for the King think it will treat his rule. They made many doctrine of feudalism to restrict the behavior and thoughts of people. Although the last King has been exiled for almost one hundred years, the traditional thoughts hasn’t been cleared thoroughly in modern China. So, you see , although we are now in an earth village connected by telephone Internet, television and other modern inventions, the behavior still show the deep difference of our own society.
And it must be admitted that in such a world of communion, it is more and more difficult to take behavior as the remarkable symbol of an unique society. Especially in the circle of young people, they intimate doing something just for fun, without any value or ideas of the foreign society. Many Chinese boys or girls go church , but they have no idea in that religion. Church is a home to satisfy the religion knot of followers. They pray their every morning and night to show the respect to God. But many Chinese boys or girls go to church every day know nothing about it and they don’t believe in God in fact. We can’t say this kind of behavior reveal the society’s value.
But on the other hand, it reflects the changing of the society value nowadays. |
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