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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: 320 TIME: 上午 12:45:00 DATE: 2006-6-15
1、 从一个人的外表能判断她或他的情绪、心理状态;
2、 从一个人的外表能判断社会的观念;
3、 不可否认,还有其他因素需要考虑;
When i was engaged in this issue, I found there is a controversy lying in it. Some people contend that the way by which one looks, dresses, and acts frequently reveals his or her attitudes. What’s more, we can discern a society’s ideas and values by the appearance and behavior. However, some people hold the opposite view. Insofar as I can see, i fundamentally agree with this standpoint for to some extend I believe the external phenomena reflect the internal state, such as mood, attitudes ,interests, even a society's ideas.
Firstly, it is easy for us to judge an individual's attitude and interests according to his or her look , dress and so on. As we all know, we, human beings, are the highest creators in the nature; we have the most complex mental organizations to generate free wills. Consequently, the external actions are determined by our psychological status. For example, during the period of bad mood, we might lose interest in anything, and looks like dismay. Whereas, when we devote ourselves into something interested, such as go to a party, journey, we are always full of passion and vitality. We would like to wear with hilarious dressing, smiling all the time. Though the behaviors are affected by many factors, we can not deny that the psychological status has played a critical role in determination.
Expand the assertion to a broad realm; it is also a quick way to tell from the appearance and behavior of its people to learn about a society's ideas and values. For instance, hippie, occurred in 1950's American, wore long hair and grew beard. Young woman dressed like peasants and wore psychedelic colors. All of them seemed dirty, drugged and disrespect of elders and society at large. Their looks and appearances indicate they would oppose and reject the conventional standards and customers of their society, and by this way they show avocation of the extreme liberalism in sociopolitical attitude and lifestyle, even ethic standard. Since Happie is represent of the pioneer of America from 1950 to 1960, their looks and appearance can mirror the ideas and values of their country at that time. There are parallels with domestic circumstance. Comparing the dressing style of 1960s to 1990s in china, we will find interesting phenomena. In the former period, people are confined to three colors when they choose their costumes that are black, white and grey. Their personalities were suppressed by collectivism during the "cultural revolution”. A sweeping reform launched in the 1978 greatly emancipated people's mind and behaviors. The Chinese began getting more concerned about their personal interests and favorites, which can also reflect on the appearance. As a result, it is possible for researchers to probe into the contemporary ideas or cultures according to the people’s appearance.
However, the appearance or look does not make up the whole externality of an individual. To understand contemporary culture of a society, analyzing the activities of the people may be the most easy and quick way but not the most effective one. Because an effective one not only means a quick observation but also a comprehensive understand, whereas mere look, dress, act is insufficient. The appearance, with variable and superficial deficiency, hampers people to learn the essential ideas of a society. What have been formed into the social ideas are those that are lasting and profound.
All in all , as for the feature of a society, including both the externality and internality, acquiring a effective comprehension of it, a combination both its citizens’ appearance, looks, acts and other factors study is needed. |
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