There is an old saying, “beauty is just a skin.” However, we cannot neglect the fact that people put too much priority on the outer beauty than the inner one. There are two specific reasons for this: many mass media encourage the atmosphere of lookism. Also, one’s appearance is very important in many events in one’s life such as job interviews.
To begin with, nowadays, people are exposed to many mass media such as TV or the internet. By these means, countless advertisements are stimulating people’ desire to buy many beautiful clothes or accessories. People are infused with many stimulations and want to be like celebraty. For example, one of my friend who loves girl’s generation, the most famous group singer in Korea, always buy new clothes and cosmetics which were introduced by them. She said she wants to be the one by wearing and having the singer’s possessions. It is impossible for her to stop it because of the endless advertisements flooding from TV, radio or internet.
In addition, many people believe neat and clean appearance play significant role in one’s important events. This is because people know that their appearance shows a lot about themselves including their abilities. Especially, people want to be seen neat and professional in every important moments such as job interviews or presentations at the meeting. To illustrate, according to the study conducted by Korea Times in 2009, 70% of people answered that they will go for a shopping or do the hair if they are asked to have an interview. They believe their clean appearance helps them get a good result. Moreover, 50% of company wants to hire clean and neat employees also. This study shows that not only inner but also outer beauty is important criterion to judge people.
To illustrate, even though everyone knows that inner beauty is very important, not many people ignore the importance of outer beauty. Especially, nowadays, they put too much emphasis on their outlooks. This is because many mass media is stimulating people’s consumtion to buy beauty items. Furthermore, appearance plays significant role in our lives, especially when one is having an important interviews. |