Issue 208

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: 503 TIME: 00:48:10 DATE: 2008-3-28 14:49:48

The speaker asserts that people's attitudes and interests can be concluded from their daily behavior, and thus the appearance and behavior of a society's masses can unveil this society's ideas and values. I strongly accede to what the arguer proclaims. In effect, any society consists of various groups of people who represent certain culture or special-interest. Actions or speeches that people unconsciously exhibit do reflect the basic and true ideology of their inner conviction, and these actions and speeches therefore unmask the attitudes and values of the society that composed by these people.

To begin with, what people dress can uncover their inner convictions and divide these people into differing cultural or racial groups. Consequently, a person can be judged what peculiar group or team he or she belongs in light of his or her clothes. Consider, for instance, the Hip-Hop culture which is popular among young people in America. This kind of culture typically requires his adherents to wear extremely loose and huge clothe that is quite distinctive from any one else. Therefore suppose that a young man wearing extremely T-shirt walks towards you, he must be a member of the Hip-Hop cultural group. Moreover, it can be concluded that America is quite tolerant to special culture, provided that this culture does not advocate any behavior that poses harm to society.

Secondly, actions of a society's people can also unveil their ideology and sociopolitical assertions. Whether the society can tolerate its people's various behavior stands whether it is a respectful and civilized social community. For instance, several years ago in Tiananmen, China saw innumerous people accumulated there protesting Japan. The reason for this was simple: Japan amended history textbooks and refuted to admit that Japan once intruded China in the 1940s. Albeit these people were very disgruntled with the government of Japan, they did not adopt any kind of action of violence. Therefore these people were very respectful and reasonable with a view to their mild behavior in this incidence. Moreover, it is also conspicuous that the community was healthy and had exhibit high civilized morality.

In the realm of education, school children's behavior is quite different from other people who have grown up to be adults. These teenagers have not been socialized by any harmful event in society, and what they allege actually unveils the extent how a society is civilized. For instance, some young adolescents fostered by certain anti-social persons in Afghanistan, deeply believe in the ideology: they are prepared for body-bomb. Thus the society lacks basic ethics, which can be affirmed from the convictions of these children and the anti-social persons. By contrast, nations in Europe are highly developed and manifest their tolerant, respectful and civilized society in the terms of European splendid level of education.

In summary, certain group of people has distinctive characteristics that differentiate the group from any other ones. These features represent their people's attitudes and interests. Furthermore, the society's ideas and attitudes can be judged by observing how the society treats these special groups.