Apperance or Personality

Apperance or Personality

  • Submitted By: bizxo
  • Date Submitted: 10/31/2008 11:23 PM
  • Category: English
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Appearance or personality, which one do you prefer? Today I'm going to talk about an issue that has been brought up many times. Is appearance really everything? Or... do you need a bit of a personality?
Recently in the 21st century, people have become more and more paranoid about the way they look. Young girls and sometimes even boys have become extremely anxious over their appearance. Celebrities are also not really helping the problem! Every girl, every boy and even every adult has an idol. When you look at photos of them they seem to be skinny and very pretty, so automatically you want to be just like them. In order to be just like your favorite celebrity you would spend thousands of pounds just to have their nose, mouth or body. If money is an issue, then some people would actually starve themselves just to be a size 0. Is this really healthy? Also, the media think there is 1 specific way a girl or boy should look. They emphasize too much on the way people should look rather then what really matters. They say all models should be a skinny size 0, which is 100% not true because of the new plus size modeling. Young girls especially our age are put under a lot of pressure. Why does 1 look have so much impact on our lives? There is a lot of emphasis put on us. When you read magazines like OK or Hello, there is a lot of pressure on what you should look like. For example: hair styles and the latest fashions.
Another form of bad appearance is at school! Kids our age could get bullied because of the way they look. For example: skin colour, religion, size or background. Many kids today suffer from this, especially because of the way they look. Most problems start at teenage years when the school is separated into cliques. Some kids don’t make an effort, because they think there's no point. They think that the popular, pretty and skinny girl will get all the attention therefore no one will care about them. But, if you really think about it… who would you rather hang...

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