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

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Consumerism has an essential impact on people's
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, and so these days men and women
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to be judged
according to
their financial status,
instead
of their honour,
generousy
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generously
generosity
, and loyalty.
This
essay completely agrees with
this
idea, and
explain
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that today's individuals are likely to evaluate each other based on their belongings, rather than their personality. One of the reasons
of
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why people
interested
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in
others
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financial status
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the effect of social media.
Rising
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prevalence of social media usage has been
trigerring
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triggering
individual's material possesions. As many influencers enjoy showing off on Instagram, their followers believe their fake stories, and in order to feel like
a
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influencer or a celebrity, they buy anything they see online. Since they suppose, if they purchase what the other
ones'
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wear, they can be admitted as the same figure.
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, they tend to focus on materials like shoes
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jackets,
instead
of
the
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personality.
As a result
, they are likely to build an idea related to themselves and
also
others, based on the clothes, cars, or the limit of credit cards. Unfortunately,
this
phenomenon may lead to neglect
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importance of some features, like kindness or honour.
Secondly
, there is a fact that consumerism is supported by companies in order to support their profit. Many factories spend the majority of their income
for
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on
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advertising on TV, the
internet
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, and
also
instagram
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.
Due to
their aggressive advertising policies, teenagers are affected dramatically, and they want to have items, which were presented by ads. The more they
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addict
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to
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, the more they give importance to materials.
Therefore
, the only thing they look for has become
others
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belongings,
instead
of personalities.
As a result
, kindness, loyalty, or honour tend to seem meaningless to some individuals, owing to their thinking path, which was damaged by adverts.
To conclude
, owing to the prevalence of social media and advertisement policies of companies may result in a transformation in people's attitudes, which is giving more importance to materials
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