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本帖最后由 Lisa-yuan 于 2010-1-23 01:58 编辑
第三次作业 Issue 208
题目: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.
中英文提纲:
Position: People’s appearance and behavior in some degree reflect the society’s ideas and values. 人们的外表和行为一定程度上反应了社会的价值和思维。
A.
People in different countries have different style of dressing, behavior. This reflect the various values and ideas in different society.不同国家的人们有不同的衣着风格和行为方式;这些反应了不同社会的人们不一样的社会价值观
B.
People will change their style of dressing with the times change. We can also tell the diversiform ideas and values of different societies. 随着时代的不同,人们会改变其穿衣的风格。
C.
People will dress different according to different occasion. 人们会根据不同的场合穿着不同风格的衣物。
正文:(正文字数:503)
Societies have ideas and values that are largely shared by their members. The values identify those objects, conditions or characteristics that members of the society consider important; that is, valuable. In other words, I agree that people’s appearance and behavior in some degree can reflect the ideas and values of society.
People in different countries have various styles of dressing, look and act. We can tell the various values and ideas in different societies through looking into their appearance and behaviors. These ideas and values of society are shared by their people. Foe example, the French dress romantically, love drinking wine, enjoy slow life style. Most of the French regard happiness is more than anything else. From their dressing, talking and working, we can tell that the ideas and values of French society are romantic. In contrast, the Japanese like dressing formally, talking politely. Loyalism is regarded most important quality in one’s life. Behaving friendly and dressing formally is a way to tell others they have good quality of loyalty. So that people’s appearance and behaviors is like a mirror of their society which can let others know quickly about their ideas and values.
People in different times will have different dressing and acting even if in the same countries. This can also reflect the ideas and values of society at different period. The Chinese people, for instance, are deeply influent by the confuciansim in the old days. In those days, people dressed conservative. Physical contact between a man and a woman except husband and wife is regarded incivility. Women should stay at home before they get married. So dressing conservative and keep women at home is one way to help no contact between man and woman. We can know that people at that times valued manners. On the other hand, after the reform and open policy of Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese people are influent by the western ideas little by little. They begin to purpose freedom, outgoing personality and diversity. So many people nowadays always dress in different styles. It can show others that the Chinese people value freedom, rights in some way.
In different occasions, people will dress, act diversity. Usually, society’s values and ideas are related to the norms of a culture, but they are more general and abstract than norms. For example, flying the national flag on a holiday reflects the value of patriotism in most countries. People should dress formal, show gazing respect and stand up at the moment of raising flag. In western countries, wearing dark clothing and appearing solemn are normative behaviors at a funeral. They reflect the values of respect and support of friends and family. Different occasions reflect different values.
In conclusion, we can tell the ideas and values through observing the people’s dress, look and act in some degree. However, if you want to know more about the ideas and values, you must look into their cultures and histories. Only in that way, you can understand the character, behaviors in different societies exactly. |
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