[i习作temp] issue208 谁愿意帮忙指导一下呢 [复制链接]

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发表于 2010-2-5 22:42:26 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

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."

I agree with this assertion insofar as that it is sometimes reasonable for one to realize a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people. Nevertheless, in most instances, people's appearance and behavior only provide us an aspect of a society or the method to understand a society even has no sense compared with some deeper methods.

From a practical point of view, the appearance and behavior will reveal one’s identity and preferences. A successful man may dress elegantly, and his behavior also befits his character. By contrast, a poor man will dress functional clothes, ignoring whether it looks like. We can also tell much about people’s aesthetic values by their exterior appearances. A man who likes rock and hip-hop may dress in a non-mainstream way. Hence, observing and analyzing the people’s appearance and behavior can help us understand their ideas and values. If they are typical, we can also understand the society. Here is an example, most Arab women wear in a long hooded cloak woven of wool
in one piece and cover their faces. If their robes deemed too revealing, they may be sent to the prison. The mainstream appearance reveals their society is conservative.

Yet, there are holes in this method. Because of globalization, in many societies’ people look alike and what they prefer to dress is similar. People in china no longer wear Chinese jacket and cheongsam.
What we sold in the clothing market has no different with American. Furthermore, most countries’ people follow the unified standard about what we should wear in different situation like meeting, wedding and funeral. There is another flaw in this method of understanding a society. In today’s schools, factories, enterprises and governmental agencies, people are ordered to dress in uniforms or in a formal style. In my high school, students must wear the uniforms. It is a way to restrict the comparison of the various clothing among the students. Hence, it is hard to judge what these people’s ideas and preferences are.

In addition, what we see may not be the fact. A millionaire may prefer ordinary dress than the dress match his wealth. When we want to know more about a person, we will have conversation with him or her like a television talk show. There are many elements to decide a society’s values and ideas. The entirely different society systems between South Korea and North Korea lead to a distance in ideas and values between two countries’ people, though there was only one Korea decades ago. So, we should take deeper methods to judge a society’s ideas and values, such like a survey for ordinary people, a study about what the media pay attention to and the educational status
of its people and so forth.

Taking into account all these factors, we may safely come to the conclusion that observing the appearance and behavior of people is an auxiliary method to realize a society's ideas and values. However, it will be very useful in certain conditions.

有什么应该在以后注意的呢。。。thx。。。。

[i习作temp] issue208 谁愿意帮忙指导一下呢 [复制链接]

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