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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: 546 TIME: 0:43:21 DATE: 2007-2-9 提纲:观点:人们的外表、衣着和行动都可以揭示他们的态度和兴趣,所以在一般情况下,我们可以通过了解人们的外表和行为来了解一个社会的思想以及价值观。 1、 人们的外表、衣着和行动都可以显示他们的态度、兴趣以及生活方式。 2、 所以研究一个社会可以从研究人们的外表和行为来研究 3、 但是也有些情况下,人们的衣着只是一种习惯或传统,并不说明人们还保持着原来的生活习惯 正文: The way people look, dress, and act which are always formed in long period of human beings to suit the surrounding they live reveals their attitudes and interests. Therefore, observing the appearance and behavior of the people including look, dress, and act you can tell much about a society's ideas and values. To begin with, the way people look, dress and act are developed with the celerity development of their attitudes and interests. The clothes they wear and the words they use are greatly influenced by not only their condition of beauty but also their social attitudes and interests. For example, for long time, the Americas are honor freedom and liberty, as a result, the clothes they wear is always following to the idea of nature and comfit. Meanwhile, in England, people who have more rule and principle in social community are wearing formally in most public place. At the same time, there is a survey which claimed that in the same time, the Americas uses more oral words than Englishmen who are likely to use formal language. Moreover, the Englishmen care more their behaving than Americas who usually do not think about details in their concept full of freedom and individual. People's attitudes and interests in their mind could greatly be inflected in the way people look, dress, and act every day. At another words, you can tell much about a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people's. It is the best and most direct way of cognize a society to learn and feel the ideas transmitted by the appearance and behavior. Also take the examples above again which is about the different way of living between Americans and Englishmen. If someone knowing little about the differences, he could feel that Americans may live more individually when he have seen American would like to choose comfortable T-shirt to join a party while English gentlemen choose suits. The appearance and behavior is excellent mirror of the society's ideas and values. We should concede that sometime the appearance or behavior of its people could not all reflect their ideas and values but just a kind of custom. People may wear some racial clothes just for a custom and habit in their area, which could not be a signal of social ideas and values. For example, in some areas where many people in same race live, they are wearing traditional clothes while they use some modern technology and lead a modern idea of living. We can not conclude that they are all live in the way which their traditional lives too hasty without considering with the culture differences. It is possible that the clothes are just a habit of the residence and other aspects of their life have greatly changed to variety with new ideas and values. So when we observing the appearance and behavior of people, we should think more about whether it is just a habit which has nothing to do with the social attitudes. In conclusion, the way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests at most time. So we could learn a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people which is not just a habit or custom in their area. |