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本帖最后由 梦想在路上 于 2010-6-1 22:56 编辑
According to the statement, the speaker claims that one can learn much about a society’s ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people. It has some merits from a normative standpoint, however, in my opinion, I cannot totally agree with such extreme view because it is too unilateral and restricted to understand a society’s ideas and values only by such way.
To begin with, the speaker’s assertion that the appearance and behavior of people can reflect the society they belong in is quite compelling, for two respects. First, indisputable, the appearance and dressing of people are vital parts of the social culture. A telling example of this is involving that the women in Iran, with the social ideas of religious supremacy, have to veil all their bodies besides their faces and hands while those in western countries, with the social ideas of liberation, democracy and equality, can dress more professional, stylish and what ever they like. Secondly, the way people act can also reveal the social ideas and values. Considering that when people greet each other, the French like to hug friendly while the Koreans more willing to bow instead, since the former’s social values are more opening and zealous.
Beyond this concession, however, I disagree with the statement because it seems to ignore that the appearance and behavior of people would be restrained and influenced by some factors, which will mislead people from really realizing a society. For one thing, people with certain vocation or in certain situation might be forced to wear special uniforms, which would eliminate the social differences. For example, all doctors and nurses over the world are dressed the same kind of white uniforms, and all athletes in Olympic Games share similar sport suits. For another, under the trend of globalization and personality, the differences between societies have become smaller and smaller meanwhile the differences between people have become bigger and bigger, which make it difficult to distinguish from behavior and appearance, such as Christmases being famous in Eastern countries, all youngsters around the world wearing T-shirt and jeans and holding personal style.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, if one would like to understand values and ideas of a society, they should pay more attention about other objective respects of the society, such as history, culture, religion and moral regulation and law, since the function of people’s exterior appearance and behavior are normally limited to a shallow level. For instance, we need to rely on historical records and other statistical evidence, which indicates the overall development of a society, to wholly understand the polygamy existed in some countries. Consequently, a comprehensive analysis and studying about the background and overall developing progress of a country, which may help to draw a complete conclusion of the society.
In sum, I concede that people can come to understand the ideas and values of a society by way of observing its people’s appearance and behavior to some extent. Nonetheless, in a sense the speaker overlooks the limitation of such method and the importance of other aspects reflecting a society. In the final analysis, we may safely reach the conclusion that we should learn fully about a society’s values and ideas through several respects such as its culture, history, moral regulation and law and so forth, besides the way people look, dress and act.
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自改一
谢谢Ity,提的建议很有道理,我都改过了。有一个关于两个句子顺序的没改,我的想法是两点同等地位,都会影响到人们判断,你是不是觉得我这样写会容易产生误解??
另回Ity:那个进行时我就凭感觉写的,也没有道理说⊙﹏⊙b
According to the statement, the speaker claims that one can learn much about a society’s ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people. It has some merits from a normative standpoint, however, in my opinion, I cannot totally agree with such extreme view because it is too unilateral and restricted to understand a society’s ideas and values only by such way.
To begin with, the speaker’s assertion that the appearance and behavior of people can reflect the society they belong in is quite compelling, in two respects. First, indisputably, the appearance and dressing of people are vital parts of the social culture. An impressive example of this is involving
that the women in Iran, with the social ideas of religious supremacy, have to veil all their bodies besides their faces and hands while those in western countries, with the social ideas of liberation, democracy and equality, can dress more professional, stylish and what ever they like. Secondly, the way people act can also reveal the social ideas and values. Considering that when people greet each other, the French like to hug friendly while the Koreans more willing to bow instead, since the former’s social values are more zealous and explicit but the latter's social values are more shy and implicit.
However, I disagree with the statement because it seems to ignore that the appearance and behavior of people would be restrained and influenced by some factors, which will mislead people from really realizing a society. For one thing, people with certain vocation or in certain situation might be forced to wear special uniforms, which would eliminate the social differences. For example, all doctors and nurses over the world are dressed the same kind of white uniforms, and all athletes in Olympic Games share similar sport suits. For another, under the trend of globalization and personality, the differences between societies have become smaller and smaller meanwhile the differences between individualities have become bigger and bigger, which make it difficult to distinguish from behavior and appearance, such as most Eastern nations celebrating the Christmas like Western counties doing, all youngsters around the world wearing T-shirt and jeans but holding specially personal styles--Hip-Pop, Punk, Neutrality and so on.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, if one would like to understand values and ideas of a society, they should pay more attention about other objective respects of the society, such as history, culture, religion and moral regulation and law, since the function of people’s exterior appearance and behavior are normally limited to a shallow level. For instance, we need to rely on historical records and other statistical evidence, which indicates the overall development of a society, to wholly understand the polygamy existed in some countries. Consequently, a comprehensive analysis and studying about the background and overall developing progress of a country may help to draw a complete conclusion of the society.
In sum, I concede that people can come to understand the ideas and values of a society by way of observing its people’s appearance and behavior to some extent. Nonetheless, in a sense the speaker overlooks the limitation of such method and the importance of other aspects reflecting a society. In the final analysis, we may safely reach the conclusion that we should learn fully about a society’s values and ideas through several respects such as its culture, history, moral regulation and law and so forth, besides the way people look, dress and act.
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