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Small Talk
1. Why do people need to make friends?
2. Is it okay your boy friend or spouse to have friends of the opposite sex?
3. What usually causes trouble between friends?
4. What is the most import!!!ant thing in maintaining a harmonious friendship?
5. Do you believe the saying "Out of sight, out of mind"?
6. What's the difference between having male and female friends?
Topic1. Fashion magazine
The world’s Girl Guides have spoken out against the fashion magazine industry. They are fed up with the way glossy mags change the faces of models, singers and actresses to make them look more beautiful. They have added their names to a petition to tackle airbrushed images of glamorous celebrities.
Girlguiding U.K. wants publishers to be more honest and label photographs that have been altered. Many pictures are changed using computer software like Photoshop. This makes teeth look whiter, eyes brighter, and skin clearer and blemish-free. Young girls want to look like these unrealistic images, which has led to a rise in eating disorders and a lack of confidence. The Guides point to research that shows half of teenage girls worry about their appearance and want cosmetic surgery.
Many high-profile celebrities, including British actress Kate Winslett, have called for the labelling of “touched-up” photos in magazines. Susan Ringwood, the CEO of the eating disorder charity Beat, said: "Young people…tell us that being surrounded everyday by pictures of unnaturally 'perfect' bodies makes their own recovery so much more difficult to achieve."
She added: "We know the difference it would make…if [young girls] could be sure which of the images they see are natural and true to life." Lauren Fletcher, an 11-year-old Guide, told reporters that magazines often "really upset" her “because people in magazines are made to look different when that's not really how they look”. She said: “It might make people uncomfortable about themselves. I just think that's unfair.”
Talk about it
1. What do you think of fashion magazines?
2. Is it right or wrong that most models are good-looking?
3. Are models good role models for teenagers?
4. What do you think of the fashion for “size zero” models?
5. Is it wrong for photos in fashion magazines to be altered to make the people look more beautiful?
6. Do you think actors and singers would be for or against their photos being airbrushed?
7. How do fashion magazines affect boys and girls differently?
8. What would life be like without the fashion industry?
9. Would a magazine showing normal and unattractive people work?
10. Would you ever have cosmetic surgery?
Topic2. Westernized
A few years ago, when foreign fast food chains began to overrun the country and surveys showed that Korea’s young people preferred a plate of spaghetti to a bowl of ramyeon, the question being asked the most was: Is Korea being modernized or is this the result of “westernization”? Now the fats are in, and the conclusion seems unmistakable. The evidence comes in the forms of wine and blond hair.
1.WINE. Consider these facts:
** Sales of imported wine in Korea quadrupled from $5.6 million to $22.8 million between 1992 and 1997.
** In the first quarter of 2000, wine imports were up 156percent from the same period in 1999.
** Korean wine producers now supply 24% of the demand for wine in the country, almost 2 million crates of wine per year.
** 60% of the wine consumed in Korea is red wine.
“So what?”, you ask. Well, if what happened in Japan is any indication, there’s no question that Korea is well on its way to becoming westernized.
Nobody will deny that Japan has become very westernized. That began to happen just as soon as per capita income reached $10,000 a year, which is also when the consumption of grape wine in Japan started to rise. The same thing is now happening in Korea, an indication that affluence and wine consumption go together.
Why wine and not whiskey? Because research in the 1980s and 1990s showed that wine, particularly red wine, may have certain health benefits. Most nutritionists now believe that a glass of red wine per day helps prevent heart attacks. Red wine contains anti-oxidants which prevent fat particles from sticking to the arteries. In other words, red wine seems to help keep our blood vessels cleaned out.
The fact that Koreans are switching to wine shows that they are becoming more health conscious, same as westerners.
2. BLOND HAIR.
As most Asian trends do, it started in Japan then came to Korea. Korean rock stars were first to dye their hair blond, but now changing one’s hair color is mainstream. Korea’s streets are filled with blondes and brunettes, and even a few “orange-heads”.
Almost all women do it, men young and old do it, and even little kids of 5 or 6 have dyed hair. In fact, dyeing one’s hair is so prevalent in Korea that it’s getting hard to find anyone under the age of 40 who has black hair. All of the Miss Korea contestants have either light brown or near-blond hair.
In today’s Korea, only the most conservative young people have black hair. Is this just a passing fad that people will soon get tired of or are the new hair colors an attempt to look more western?
Talk about it
1. How did the westernization of Asia (specifically Korea) begin?
2. Do you that Korea is becoming westernized, or do you think it's just becoming modernized? Tell why you think so.
3. What does westernization spread to other nations? Give examples.
4. What conclusions do you draw from the fact that Koreans are drinking more and more wine, particularly red wine, as each year passes? Explain your opinion.
-It shows that Korea is becoming more westernized.
-It's just a change in the drinking habits.
5. What about the huge popularity of foreign-owned fast food chains like Starbuck's coffee, Baskin Robbins, Pizza Hut, Dunkin' Donuts, etc.? Are they evidence that Korea is becoming westernized? Why or why not?
6. What do you think of people dyeing their hair brown, blond, or another color? Do you think it looks better than black hair? Do you now or have you ever dyed your hair a different color? If so, why did you do it?
7. Besides drinking red wine and dyeing their hair, what other possible signs are there that Koreans may be becoming westernized?
8. Japan is the most westernized country in Asia, and it is also the richest. Does this mean that wealth and western lifestyle go together? Is it possible to be rich but not westernized? Explain your opinion.
9. What are some positive effects of Westernization, especially in developing countries?
10. Do you worry about Korea becoming too westernized? Do you think it will lead to Koreans' forgetting their own culture?
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