Objective:

• Evaluate personal values and paradigms around body decoration and physical beauty.
•  Investigate how physical appearance affects definitions of identity and belonging.
• Analyze values and belief systems of physical appearance across cultures, sub-cultures, and generations

Original Post:

The first person I saw was in the Knight Library, he was very tall and handsome, he stood in the print room and scan his books, he is wearing a green T-shirt and jeans, when I see him I feel that I’m living in the summer, probably because the heat in the library is higher, so he just wore little clothes. I think he’s wearing is represents the traditional American students wearing style. I think his value should be casual, clean, and he studied in the library, so I think he is also like to learn, and must be a good student.

The second person I saw was an Asian girl, I saw her stood in front of Duck Store. The reason why I noticed her was because that day was very cold, I was wearing a thick coat, but she was wearing a miniskirt, and silk stockings, and she has very thick makeup. She looked very tall, the clothes she wearing were all famous brand, and there is a Mercedes key in her left hand, and she hold a cigarette on her right hand. I think she is very rich, but her value is not good. I feel that kind of wearing style is not like a student. So I think her value has some problem, and her behavior is not positive and not healthy.

The third person I saw was on the street. That was a teenage boy; he looked like 15 years old. His head with big headphones, he was listening music while dancing with the music, sometimes he also followed the music singing, he looked pretty enjoy listening music. I think his value is positive and healthy, because he looked very happy and his behavior is positive.

Reflection:

The reason why I choose this picture is because this image shows different people lively, it is clear about people’s characters in this image. the reason why I choose this artifact is because this artifact teach me lot of things about people’s value. someone ask me what is my favorite cloth or what kind of shoes style I like, I think it is not a simple question, and I cannot answer that immediately. Because I think people’s aesthetic vision is constantly changing with age, like the style of dress would be changed all the time, especially for girls. Although my style of dress will always change, but I also have my own values, such as most of the clothes in my closet are black, because I think black clothes is relatively simple, I was a very nasty troublesome person, so I like wearing clothes with a simple color. Otherwise, I believe that black clothes can be applied to various occasions, very convenient and very practical, and the black clothes seemed more formal. Compared to black, I do not like those red or bright yellow color, it may be because I think that light-colored clothes are easy to get others’ attention. But I’m not like a social person, and I’m not good at talking to people on the road, so to some extent, a black dress is also very easy to ‘hide’ yourself. However, although I like wearing black color clothes, I also change the style of my dress all the time. When I was in middle school, I like all kind of clothes with flowers. I think most of the girls in that age will love this type of clothes, because that is pretty cute! In addition, When I was in high school, I like to wear school uniforms, because in China, high school student are very busy, basically they do not have enough time to rest, they have to constantly doing exercises, in order to be admitted to a good university. So there is no time for me to choose clothes, school uniforms are the most convenient choice at that period. All in all, my value and belief is simple and comfortable, my dress is easy to express my value and belief. So I think that if you want to know others, watching their dress is a good way to know their first. From people’s dress can know their value and beliefs, maybe that is not totally correct, but it is the most direct and fastest way to know someone you want to know, besides talking with that person. Thus, from this artifact, I know how to identity people’s value and know others better!

Future Goals:

In the future, I want to try some different appearances, just like the picture under this paragraph. Since I can find out which appearance is the best for me, and express my personal value clearly to others. Otherwise, I do not want to wear black clothes any more, because my friends told me that made me looks older. So I want to try some light-colored clothes to make me look younger. in addition, I believe that we cannot judge people just from their wearing. We need to spend more time to know their personal value by other ways, such as talking with them.

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