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? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience

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It is an irrefutable fact, that values have changed in all over the world. Holding material things, now a days have becoming a symbol of succes. It is disagreed that economical values are most important than moral values. The following up paragraphs will analize explaning
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, my personal opinion will be given in my experince.
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, money has been trated as a god in modern societies. In example we can see that in American
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is true. In the American Dollars in the bills are printed "In God we Trust" Doing we
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, that capital is the main reason to get it.
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is not a truth just to the American nation. Latin American
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is driving
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idea as well.
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why Narcotraffic is so strong. Mexican drugs dealers are people that have huge quantities of cash. As well as luxury houses, fine cars, expensive jewerly. These people some times do not have any education at all.
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, they do not have values, and
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they do not care.
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is due of the wealth they posses. It seems to allow them to continue acting in
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way.
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, there are people that work every day, that help poor individuals, pay taxes and contribute to
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's growth in different areas. Unfortunatelly,
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values do not produce any wealth.
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, for
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, material things are today considered a better value than morality.
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: When in Mexico an Earthquake is lived, a lot of heroes help people to live. They dig inside the ruins of a house or a building looking for humans that are buried.
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, the government just give them an award or some money or even just congratulated them. So,
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day, people forgive them and that´s it. To sum up,
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is forgetting moral values changing them for material values.
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has to change. I disagree, when
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consider economical values most important than moral values. Currently, rich people (unless in Mexico) is the only thing that they have: money.
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, Money is power.
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, they have the opportunity to take important desicions. Of course,
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desicions are always took in the worst way.
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is unfair
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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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