193. "It is not the headline-making political events but the seldom-reported social transformations that have the most lasting significance."
Transformation: change
真正具有长远意义的，不是那些被炒作的政治事件，而是那些鲜有报道的社会变化。
Agree
1. The headline-making “sensational” political events are often superficial and short-lived.
2. The commercial interests of the mass media determine their preoccupation with the news value of events rather than the social value of events.
3. Social transformations usually take place slowly, and are hard to notice at their beginning.
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198. "Instead of encouraging conformity, society should show greater appreciation of individual differences."
Conformity: agreement
社会应该多一些鼓励个人间的差异而不是统一。
There is no doubt that society should encourage individuals to stand out to show their unique character and qualities.
1. Conformity leads to the death of creativity.
2. A society that encourages individual differences will benefit from the creations and vitality of its people.
3. “Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.” (John Stuart Mill)
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203. "The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its heroines."
了解一个社会特点最好的方法是去考察被这个社会视为英雄的人们的特点。
1. First consider the sports hero, whom in my observation society chooses not merely by virtue of athletic prowess.
2. Next consider the military hero, who gains heroic stature by way of courage in battle, or by otherwise facing certain defeat and emerging victorious.
3. On the other hand, consider a third type of hero: the champion of social causes who inspires and incites society to meaningful political and social change.
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