Issue208【六人行7.28】by ARTHUR

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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."
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The speaker generalizes unfairly that the way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests and the society’s ideas and values as well. From my perspective, this statement is ex parte for the appearance and behavior of a society’s people cannot be the sole consideration when judging the society’s value.

Obviously, through one’s outlook or behavior, we actually could find out their attitudes and interests. Different persons have different kinds of dressing style, looking appearance and acting behavior which may largely depend on their attitude and interests. A sports-lover prefer loose sport cloth rather straitlaced business suit which will seem to limit their body motion and make them feel uncomfortable; at the same time the businessman like the latter more than others. Also you can identify a person about whether his or her favorite’s is fashionable culture for maybe his/her behavior or dressing is larruping. So you can easily distinguish a business man from a professor or an athlete by the information expressed out from the appearance.

But, we cannot get know a society’s ideas and values only by what its people wearing, what its people doing or what its people saying. Because so many things prop up the society’s ideology and axiology, for example politic and stratum. The way you can understand a society, in my view, is to realize the society from many different aspects such as politics, education, economics or some other ones. Only by talking to ordinary people or living with them for period of time, can you real involve in the society and will understand its value and idea exact. For example, the great literature Das Kapital written by Marx Karl and Friedrich Engels was based on the intensive research of the capitalistic economics. Thus it is more reasonable to know a society in various ways.

And on the other side, in modern world, the globalization has made different area’s people becoming more and more similitude in the way they wearing or the fashion they touching. So we cannot just through dress or manners of people to determine their societies more. The fashion in France will quickly spread to the entire world. New fashion words in the American movies will also be known by the Citizens of the world through the internet.

In sum, while the statement has merit, it aggrandizes the influence of appearance. At society level, I strongly agree that other methods are more important than the way that only by observing the appearance and behavior of its people.

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But, we cannot get know a society’s ideas and values only by what its people wearing 人家真的说only了么？ 这个错误很致命