It becomes more popular in Korea among job applicants to take plastic surgeries. Socialogists exmplain that one of the reasons to cause this phenomenon is the extreme emphasis on external apprearance produced by the mass media such as televisions or magazines. It is somewhat true that the modern society cannot avoid this phenomenon. However, I strongly believe that people should not be judged by their external apprearances even though it is difficult to say "never" because appearances cannot reflect their abilities and there is no object standard to judge the appearance.
First of all, external apprearances cannot reflect capacities. The skills, techniques, or knowledge are not expressed in external apperearances. For example, it is difficult to notice if somebody can speak foreign languages when just looking at him or her. Some people insists that beauty is also a kind of abilities. However, beauty is mainly inherited and is different from physical health. People can obtain health by exercises or training while they cannot attain beauty. Even plastic surgeries cannot create beauty but only can provide just better looks.
Also, there is no objective strandard to judge external apprearances. It might be acceptable to judge people by external apprearance if there is any absolute strandard to assess beauty. Unfortunately, there is no such standard. People just have different opinions about what is beautiful and even the opinion of each person changes according to their emotions day by day. Therefore, it is dangerous to evaluate people by their external apprearances.
However, it is also true that external apprearances can reflect some personal characteristics. External apprearances are not constant but changing. This contains changes in behaviors or faces as well as changes in styles of clothes or hair, and these changes are caused by changes in personal characteristics. For example, neat and clean clothes can tell us the owner is also neat and clean.
To sum up with, I firmly believe people should not assess others by their external apprearances because external apprearances cannot reflect abilites and there is no objective standard for beauty. However, it is difficult to say "never" hence external apprearances can imply some personal aspects. |