Issue208_外表体现社会价值，附提纲方便阅读~欢迎新老朋友互改~

figuechenUID: 2850619

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."
WORDS: 663
TIME: 00:50:00
DATE: 2010-7-26 11:02:06

TS：能反映一些，但未必。
1.
外貌和举止能反映一些性格，也能反映一些社会的价值观。
2.
但外貌和举止不能完全反映一个人的性格。
3.
同样的，人们的外貌和举止也不能完全反映社会的价值观。

It is true that the appearances and behaviors of people reflect part of their attitudes and interests, as well as a society's ideas and values. However, there remain hidden characters of a person or a society that cannot be indicated by appearance and behavior. To have a clear insight of a society, we have other paths to follow.

Initially, the outward characteristics do reveal some of a person's attitudes and interests since appearances and behaviors are determined by his inner emotions and qualities, which have close correlation with one's attitudes towards society. For example, hip-hop singers, such as Jay-Z are usually dress in baggy clothes and have tattoos on their body to show their specific attitudes that they are in pursuit of independent character and disobedience to the mainstream of society. More important, the ideas and values of a society consist of the attitudes and interests of an individual, and therefore the appearances and behaviors of the people mirror a society's ideas. Take gentlemen in Britain for example. They behave in a polite manner in most circumstances. In this case, their behavior conveys the message that politeness and good manners are pillars of British society. The example fully explains that the ideas and values of a society can somehow be demonstrated by the people’s external characters.

However, as the proverb goes, "Never judge a book by its cover". There are some inner feelings and attitudes which cannot be reflected by the external looks and behaviors of a person. Human beings are capable of disguising themselves, and thus sometimes it might be a person’s desire to determine his appearance and behavior. We may wear suit in a job interview to make the interviewer believe that we hold a serious attitude towards the job. On the other day however, we might be dressed in baggy and leisure clothes to participate in a party. It is our desire to determine the external appearance and behavior in certain circumstances. For example, an American spy in World War II was sent to Germany to initiate his mission. In order to acquire confidence from others, he behaved like an adherent of Nazi. He could even memorize a book written by Hitler. Soon he was appointed a position in the military department in Germany, which indicates that he had successfully misled many Germans by disguising his behavior. In this example, the true appearance and behavior of the spy had been held back according to his desire and therefore it is sometimes unreliable to judge a person from these aspects.

In a not dissimilar way, some of the values and ideas of society cannot be identified by observing the outward characteristics of its people. Foremost, the ideas of some people may not be representative to all the others. We will be misguided if we cannot distinguish the mainstream of society. For example, there are bunches of young people who are dressed in fashionable clothes in China. However, that does not illustrate that all the Chinese people prefer fashionable way of lives. In fact, most Chinese people incline to have traditional life styles. Those young people cannot truly reflect the common situations in China. What's more, the globalization has decreased the disparity of appearance between different groups of people, and it is more difficult to identify the ideas and values from the appearance. Most people in big cities are wearing T-shirt in summer and no one can tell what ideas and values are conveyed in such appearance.

The ideas and values of a society involve various aspects including culture along with the stage of a society. It is presumptuous to judge a person or society completely according to its outward appearance and behavior. An analogy can be drawn with the outward appearance and behavior: the appearances are like the packages and the ideas are the goods inside. The package may reflect some of the characters of the goods inside but you will never know what it really is until you open it.

追梦小木耳UID: 2781857

额。。。
间谍的例子太极端了吧。我怎么感觉恰好能说明行为举止反应性格态度呢？间谍伪装的行为举止，让人们相信他的性格态度，这说明大部分人判断一个人怎么样还是根据外表的，而且在大多数人身上这是有效的标准

倒数第二段光说一个年龄段的穿着没有代表性。那么举止呢？怎么没有提？

figuechenUID: 2850619

额。。。
间谍的例子太极端了吧。我怎么感觉恰好能说明行为举止反应性格态度呢？间谍伪装的行为举止，让人们相信他的性格态度，这说明大部分人判断一个人怎么样还是根据外表的，而且在大多数人身上这是有效的标准
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追梦小木耳 发表于 2010-8-3 23:32

以貌取人是大部分人的判断，但未必正确。间谍的举止成功地骗得了他国的信任，可见举止不能完全反映一个人的内心。

举止的例子确实少了，但实在想不到什么好的例子干脆就用外表代替了 - -

谢谢修改~