Write about the following topic: 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. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

In the present
days
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, social status and wealth
becomes
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the success parameter as rich
people
and high-ranked individuals are more
andmired
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admired
.
This
makes human values
such
as trustworthiness, friendliness, and honour to be less appreciated. In
this
brief essay, I will describe how things have happened resulting
to
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this
phenomenon. The first thing that has caused
this
is the wrong education given by parents and schools. In
Indonesia
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Indonesia,
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children are taught to study hard to be
parts
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of the governmental apparatus in the future
instead
of pursuing their own dreams.
For example
, I still remember when I graduated from an informal school back in
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the
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elementary days, a friend of mine wrote in his graduation book that his dream was to become a civil servant
while
others
dreamed
to become
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football players or detectives. The poor child had to be taught by his environment as it was impossible for children
in
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the same age to have the thought to work for money with the government. The second cause of
this
incident is the rise of social
media
. It has become a platform for
people
to show their superficial
story
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, usually only the good ones, in order to be appreciated by
others
. Over time, the
life
of a successful person on social
media
has become a new standard for
others
to live the same
life
. With more accessible internet and devices, nowadays social
media
usage can even be seen in children and they would copy things that
others
do as shown on their phone screens. Unfortunately,
life
ethics are
tought
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taught
not as much as glamorous
life
on
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the
media
. As it becomes a daily consumption,
people
would be more individualistic to achieve “success” defined by
others
.
To sum up
,
that
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a person judged
according to
social status and material possessions is not
due to
nothing
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anything
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. Misleading education and increased social
media
usage are possible causes
on
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of
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why
people
would try to chase wealth and positions
instead
of basic values.
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