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发表于 2009-8-16 10:39:49 |显示全部楼层

Issue 208
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.

People’s appearance and behavior reveal people’s attitudes and interests in some way. However, as far as I concerned, only by observing the way people look, dress and act is hard to understand a society. There are many other more important factors that should be considered such as culture and history.

From the beginning, it is possible for us to know the people’s attitudes and interests form the cloth and behavior in some aspects. A man who always wears color T-shirts may indicate that he is a vivid man and easy to talk. And if you see a youngster dress up him in the style of hip-hop, you may judge that he is a man who likes hip-hop music very much. However, in most time, it is unfair to judge a people by observing people’s appearance. A beautiful woman dressing in an expensive dress may not mean that she is an elegant lady. Some academic may seem like most common people do not spend time in cloth and prefer T-shirt and jean .the easy and common dressing may hide an intellectual people who have a good knowledge and great achievement. So the appearance could not be regarded a main factor to judge a person.

Society that consists of many different aspects is complex and complicated. The appearance and behavior is not enough to reveal a society’s ideas and values .with the development of globalization, more and more people from all over the world like the same things. For example, KFC and McDonalds’ are popular with the global. People in Chinese and American all like to eat them. Can we say that the Chinese and American share the same ideas and values? In addition, law plays a significant part in a society’s ideas and values .but the law is not represented in the way people look and dress.

We can learn a society’s idea and values in all kinds of ways. Reading the books on the history which have great effect on society could enable you to better understand the society form the past. History is a treasure which indicates the civilization of society. For example, The Declaration of Independence made after the world war indicates the American‘s spirit of freedom. And the acts also can make the same impact .the most famous example is the Statute of Liberty. Some literary works are influenced by society’s ideas and values.

Though the appearance and behavior can not be considered as the judgment of society’s ideas and values, to some extend they may influence the impression of other people on society, so we should pay more attention to our appearance and behavior as well.

In conclusion, it is not easy to understand a society’s ideas and values which includes many factors. Observing appearance and behavior of people is not likely to reach the truth. There are many accesses to go for the truth .