▶ Your Answer : Some
people think that people in these days tend to pay too much attention on
personal appearance and fashion, so they criticize this point. However, in
my opinion, today's people do not focus more in comparison to one that it
was in the past. My two main reasons are as follows: there were aesthetic
spirits in the old days, too. Also, the reason this phenomenon happened is
connected to not their too much concentration on outward traits but
relevant to individualism, which means that they spend time for themselves
more.
To begin with, interest and pursuing about aesthetic feature had already existed. It is no wonder that the people in the past made many arts and ornaments, such as clothes, dress, house, and so on. Therefore, it is just humans' general feature to have interest and pursue on external beauty. For example, Aska style, which had been discovered few years ago in Japan, showed us that the people who lived about 1700 years ago also made many ornaments and paid attention on their appearance and fashion. The dress was very lavish because too many patterns are in that one, and the house they lived in also had ornaments such as gold, jewel, etc.
On top of that, as a result of individualism, people became paying many times for themselves, and it is the reason of emphasizing on their outward traits. In other words, today's people spend many times not only for their appearance, but also many other things which is related to themselves, such as studying, shopping, playing sports, and so on. And pursuing appearance and fashion is just one of the components of that category. Many studies have shown that modern people pay much attention to external feature in comparison to the past. According to a poll conducted by the Health and Happy Association in Korea, many teenagers think that appearance is important. However, the reporter also said that the participants stated that other things are essential, too. Physical trait is just one of the parts of the elements. So they think appearance is equivalent to other components, and they spend time for it as same as others. The reporter concluded, saying that the reason increasing time to spend on appearance is just because today's people tend to spend their time for themselves.
To sum up, pursuing appearance is just one of the humans' elements. In Addition, the reason for time spending on appearance is because people became spending time for themselves more compared to the past. In this regard, I firmly believe that it is not reasonable idea people became paying too much attention to their physical traits nowadays.
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