A person’s worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

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The standards of people towards life has changed in the recent years. People are judging others on the basis of their economic and social status, owing to that the individual has lost its worth in today's high societies.
However
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, the moral values like pride, kindness and being trustworthy are seemed to be unimportant in the materialistic world. I completely agree with
this
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and will discuss my views in the subsequent paragraphs.
People
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The people
of today's generation are faking world with their false honour and lifestyle. Most of them believe that their happiness belongs to
showoff
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show off
their money and expensive things. Due to which people are becoming more selfish and self
centered
being or placed in the center
centred
.
For instance
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, In order to become
millionaire
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a millionaire
at
early age
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an early age
, most of
youngsters
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the youngsters
are engaged in wrong activities like gambling and smuggling. On the other side, people with old fashioned values are struggling for their survival in
this
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fast running world. People with
such
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values are overly used by wrongdoers who have
negative mindset
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a negative mindset
towards society.
For example
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, it has been proved that non deserving students got selected in top universities because of their
parents
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parents'
social status and political approach. Earlier relationships were based on
trust but
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trust, but
now most of them are money oriented or just for a specific purpose. It is the main reason of increase in divorces in young couples as negative mindset have ruined the loyalty.
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, people are becoming
emotionless
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and many have gone into depression and suffering
form
a giver or sender
from
various
phsycological
mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature
psychological
problems. In conclusion
,
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,
I believe that wealth is important for well being but moral values helps to build character of an individual that runs for longer life.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Social status
  • Material possessions
  • Old-fashioned values
  • Honour
  • Kindness
  • Trust
  • Judged
  • Importance
  • Traditional
  • Reflection
  • Achievements
  • Hard work
  • Disregarded
  • Well-balanced
  • Meaningful
  • Cultural norms
  • Societal norms
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