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    This document discusses whether it is acceptable to tell someone they need to improve their appearance. It explores how appearance standards have varied across cultures and time periods. While general hygiene, grooming, and cleanliness are matters of respecting others that warrant comment, physical attributes like height, weight, or facial features are not things someone can change and it would be rude and disrespectful to tell them to change those aspects of their appearance. Telling someone they need to change their overall physique could damage their self-confidence or cause depression.

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    This document discusses whether it is acceptable to tell someone they need to improve their appearance. It explores how appearance standards have varied across cultures and time periods. While general hygiene, grooming, and cleanliness are matters of respecting others that warrant comment, physical attributes like height, weight, or facial features are not things someone can change and it would be rude and disrespectful to tell them to change those aspects of their appearance. Telling someone they need to change their overall physique could damage their self-confidence or cause depression.

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    This document discusses whether it is acceptable to tell someone they need to improve their appearance. It explores how appearance standards have varied across cultures and time periods. While general hygiene, grooming, and cleanliness are matters of respecting others that warrant comment, physical attributes like height, weight, or facial features are not things someone can change and it would be rude and disrespectful to tell them to change those aspects of their appearance. Telling someone they need to change their overall physique could damage their self-confidence or cause depression.

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    This document discusses whether it is acceptable to tell someone they need to improve their appearance. It explores how appearance standards have varied across cultures and time periods. While general hygiene, grooming, and cleanliness are matters of respecting others that warrant comment, physical attributes like height, weight, or facial features are not things someone can change and it would be rude and disrespectful to tell them to change those aspects of their appearance. Telling someone they need to change their overall physique could damage their self-confidence or cause depression.

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    Homework.

    Essay on the issue “Is it acceptable to tell someone that they need to improve their appearance?”

    It is often said that people are met primarily by clothes. This phrase has even become a
    proverbial one. Nevertheless, one’s appearance is still a topic which is often discussed in modern
    discourse. The trend today is towards expressing your personality by means of appearance and
    garments. Also, hardly a day goes by without another report of adepts of body positivity
    appearing in the media or in the feed on Instagram. (Hi! Are these prepositions all right?) Due to
    these reasons, this topic is hotly-debatable and tough to be regarded as one-sided and
    unimportant. So, in today’s essay I would like to speculate a bit on the importance of a person’s
    exterior and whether you can tell someone that they need to improve it.

    It is a common knowledge that social norms of clothing and outlook on fashion have always
    been and will always be ever-changing and depending on many facets. For instance, there was a
    stable tradition for many centuries in Japan to dye teeth in black, since black teeth were
    associated with maturity and beauty. Another phenomenon is that Muslim women wearing usual
    European clothes are considered to commit a severe sin, and such women are awfully punished
    and their family’s reputation might be completely destroyed. (Sorry, is the first part of the
    sentence before the comma correct grammatically?) As far as I am concerned, in Islamic
    totalitarian countries, for example, where there is no personal freedom and private initiative,
    people are told by the authority figures what they must wear and how they should behave in
    general. To my way of thinking, strict rules of the kind limit person’s mental borders and
    deteriorate the quality of live. I sincerely believe that garments must be a means to express
    yourself and help people feel self-confident rather than a way to conceal yourself like Muslim
    women are forced to do thanks to Islam.

    Another factors to consider are general hygiene and overall grooming of a person. In these terms
    appearance matter, to my mind, because such characteristics might be influenced by their owner.
    Complexion, height and eye-colour, for instance, cannot be changed at our stage of human
    development, so people should not be blamed if they are thick-boned, short and dark-skinned. (Is
    “ at ” preposition all right here ?). I suppose that such things as keeping teeth clean, brushing
    your hair, dressing up properly are a matter of respect to others. If a person wears dirty shabby
    clothes, spreads disgusting smell and does not feel ashamed about it, it is all right then to
    communicate to them that it would (maybe will?) be nice if they started (maybe start?) being
    more neat and tidy. (Sorry, are tenses correspondent in this sentence?)

    All in all, it seems to me that a person’s appearance plays a considerable role in their lives but
    not everything is defined by it. (awfully sorry for a repetitive question, is this article necessary?)
    Appearance may influence a career, personal life and it quite often determines initial people’s
    attitude towards an individual. As far as I know, a favorable general attitude to cute nice things
    and creatures is biologically implanted in human-beings. If a baby animal looks cute and fluffy,
    their mommies are highly likely to take care of them because they get lots of positive emotions.
    I also assume, telling a person to improve their outside in terms of hygiene is acceptable
    provided that you communicate your ideas to them in a polite form. (Is only a comma enough
    after “I also assume”? Maybe “that” is needed?) .When it comes to physique and facial features,
    then, to my mind, it is rather disrespectful and rude to tell somebody to change that. Moreover,
    fatty people and those who are not lucky to have fashionable body shapes might get problems
    with being self-confident due to low estimation from others or might as well get depressed.
    Therefore, it is not humane to communicate to them that you deem they to be unattractive. By
    the way, I think that a lot of people are aware that they do not correspond with conventional
    beauty standards, so there is no need to remind them of it.

    Thanks for amendments and an interesting topic!

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