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Some people like to try new things, for example, places to visit and types of food. Other people prefer to keep doing things they are familer with. 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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A
person
's worth can be judged in many ways. It can be based on different variables. One of them, probably the most obvious is the
person
's contribution to society.
However
, in most
cases
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 people judge others
in
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 other factors. In the
past
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the
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manners were very important and people had to have values, like honour, kindness and trust.
Nowdays
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 these values are becoming less and less important. In determining a
person
's worth, the weight of social
status
 and material
posessions
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possessions
 were always very significant. The
importance
 of money and fame have been changing over time,
continuosly
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continuously
, and in the
last
 few
decades
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 their
importance
 started to grow again
anfter
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after
 a long time of decrease.
This
 change has several reasons. As social media appeared, it became much easier for people to show off their money and richness. Before the age of Facebook and Instagram, they had
mush
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 less opportunity to show it. The other reason
of
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for
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 the increase is consumerism, which started in the
second
 half of the 20th century. Houses and cars became
status
 symbols. Material
posession
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possession
possessions
,
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 and the process of buying things and spending money became one of the most important purposes of a
person
's life. As the
importance
 of social
status
 and material
posession
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possession
possessions
 increased, another thing happened. The
once respected
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valuse
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values
value
 lost
their
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its
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 significance.
This
 was caused by similar reasons, social media and television played a big role. The increase in the
importance
 of social
status
 has another reason: politics.
Nowdays
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, politics is becoming more and more extreme, and many politicians are
populist
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populists
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. They show a picture of themselves that lacks
old-fashoined
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old-fashioned
 values and shows their position as an example to follow.
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