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题目: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."
字数:619 用时:00:43:42 日期:2009/7/23 0:27:32
With the techonolgy and science making our civilization and society change rapidly and enormously, humans and societies have become more and more complex and difference than before. Can we recognize human's attitude and interests through their look, dress and act, even cognize the society depending on observe the appearance and behavior of its people? Admittedly, to some degree, maybe yes, we could recoginze humans or society just based on their external appearance and behavior, however, those observations couldn't reflect the real people and society.
To begin with, sometimes, we ofter judge people just depending on the way they look, dress and act, even judge the society in this method. In our mind, we think that the appearance and behavior could reveal the person or society more or less, so that when we in a new society or contact with a stranger, we cognize them by those things frequently. For example, when we look at a man, who wears western style suit and leather shoes, we may think that this man is a gentle man and going for his goals at high level of the society, those kind man would never wear like a beggar. In other hand, when we see a person, who was wearing glasses and bringing a leather pack, we may consider that this man is a college professor and knowledgeable. It is the reason why the First Impression becom more and more improtant in our contemporary world. Similarly, society consists of human beings, we could also initially recognize the society throught its individual's behavior and appearances more or less. Like we often cognize that the northern USA society was hate the black people before the 1890s because its residents hate and persecute the black people in that time.
However, because we couldn't recognize people or society objectively and more or less with some our own attitudes, we couldn't understand the essence of a stranger and new society just throught the appearance and behavior. People cognize the person or soceity with their own ideals and attitudes usually, it would cause that the real person and society is dissimilarity with those we thought. Like the example I mention before, it is highly possible that the man wears western style suit and leather shoes because he has to find a position to make his family have enough money to survive. Also, the man wears a pair of glasses doesn't mean anything, just because he has eye illness. Who knows? Without communicating with others deeply, we couldn't know their real attitudes, thoughts and ideals even cognize them in wrong ways. For example, someone hate a man who wears fashion clothes, he may thought that a fashionable man is ignorant, when he has to contact a man who wears fashionable, he would feel uncomfortable and hate even cognize this person is ignorant firstly. But it is highly doubt that this fashionable person was an honest and brave man. As same as we recognize people, society also couldn't be defined only by its external appearance and its individual's behavior, for example, it is truly that before the 1860s, the society of the south USA lokked like very hate the black people, but we know that a huge part of citizen of the south society had help many black people escape to the north secretly.
Thus, if we want to recognize the essence of a person and a society, we should not only throught their external appearance and behavior but also some internal things. Shakespeare once said: there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. In this sight, it is hardly to define a person or a society objectively, so that the deeper contact is central and crucial for revealing essences. |
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