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?

I partly agree with
this
view. Nowadays,with the development of society,more and more
people
begin to work with various kinds of jobs related to business activities , which more and more test a person's communication,expression,cooperation skills.
Also
the experience in dealing with
people
and things and solving unexpected problems. And more excellent employees can get more opportunities and space for promotion, and their rewards are
also
mostly material from where they work for . With the purpose to
further
expand their social circle,
people
will take pictures or videos to show their material rewards to others through social networks.
This
situation gave us a feeling that those
people
who are materially rich must be excellent
people
.
However
, I think
such
relationships formed by material needs and mutual benefits can be stopped at any time when mutual benefits no longer exist.
On the other hand
,when it comes to pure human communication, I think honour, kindness and trust have always been regarded as excellent quality. We prefer to talk out our troubles and current difficulties to
people
with
such
qualities and listen to their opinions to find solutions. And
people
tend to keep a long-term relationship with
such
people
too.
Therefore
, I believe that in today's society, most
people
have at least two different sides of themselves. In business activities, we show the material value to others to make our social circle faster and improve the value we can create in business jobs . But back to the real face of human interaction, we still value the precious qualities of honour, kindness and trust and so on of a close friend or life partner.
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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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