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 Upper Intermediate B- Citizenship Today

Unheard Voices

Folgar, Juan F.

Whar kind of people are we now

Society is changing all the time, and knows that the most important thing is what we look like. If we saw a man wearing some specific clothes, in our minds we would know what kind of man he is. How many times in the street we see some boy walking towards us and if he is wearing big trainers and looks like a boy who is going to rob us we decide to cross the street for safety.

A video that I saw in an English class makes me think that we often judge people just for their appearance, and ... is that good?

In the video there is a man who is first dressed like a poor person and he walks in the middle of the street and falls to the ground as if he were sick, and the people who are around him just look at him and continue walking. Then the man changes his clothes again and wears a suit, but this time, when he falls down, pretending to be sick, the people around stop