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This is about our virtue system which can be called "culture" or "ethics" or whatever. Part 2

 And as a masculinity, in 1990 so called, 'tough guy' was considered as a good guy. And also widespread notion was that men only cry three times for a whole life. If you agreed on it, or your personal value is the same with it, you would pursue it. But if you didn't agree or your personal value is different from it, you would feel some difficulty between the two values. Here I have to point out that we don't know that almost all men or women agreed on it really. (The actual common value can be revealed only after each person speaks out and record it.) Anyway, in those days, men tried hard to pursue those values(personally supposed common value), pretended not to cry and to be strong.

 What about women, yes. it's all the same with the cases for men. Modesty, obedience, and the beauty were considered valuable for women. And the pure love and virginity were highly valued then(You can see that on the movies and dramas in the 90ties). In those era, many women used lots of resources for that. Of course, so many women spent much much for the so called beauty. 

 It doesn't mean that there is no one who tried other values. There have been people who pursued their own personal values regardless what others' value was.

 We need to study in what process the personal value actually is turned over to be the actual common value(in other words, the personal value became so obvious to anybody and can show it in public). As time goes, when a new value is very needed, a brave person cries out to public even though the personally supposed common value suppressed it. And then others with a personal value very similar with it comes out to show it. And they realize that others also have the similar value with them. And the personal value becomes a actual common value.

 And then why I wrote this, I need to tell you now. I want to show how the media is so that important and how they move and retort the value, especially the personally supposed common value. The candidate election and the so called terrorism were possible through the distorting the common value. In other words, the personal values are suppressed by making powerful personally supposed common value. And also the consensus for the presidential candidates are also distorted for it. This also applies especially to music and entertainment business. If someone successfully make people believe that the song are popular, the song becomes more popular. When people thinks people would like hearing this song, they probable play the song in public more frequently. And the song is exposed to more people than others. Of course, actually so many people like the song. But the survey hasn't been done yet. 

 

 The personally supposed common value can be manipulated very easily by using media. The politicians and the powerful people distort the value using the media and make terror when necessary. Right now when I am writing this(July 31, 2013), they are doing their best to do this. And teenagers are very vulnerable to this. This is why the conservative Koreans are so keen to have the power over the education. And also it directly affects the profit of big companies.

 

 The big response reacting against the media control is the emerging the Audition TV programs. The current media manipulates the values to make people think that the 'appearance', 'value to be seen and tangible' is everything. Those medias play an important role of the wide-spread 'lookism' in Korea. In other words, the media controls actively the personally supposed common value.

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This is about our virtue system which can be called "culture" or "ethics" or whatever. Part 1

Preface : This is going to be updated from time to time. It's not complete yet. I just want to know who would agree with this and how many of them are out there. That is, how far my personal values can reach over the world. Maybe this social theory might have been published already, but it hasn't been borrowed or referred from somewhere else. It just came from my idea.  If you know some publications on it, please let me know.

 Values and value judgement: I divided the values into three categories as followings. 

 Personal Values - the values or judgement standard which is used by a person. The standards or the values are so various. Impossible to find all values of each person.

 Actual common values - The values or judgement standards which all people agree with really. The group of people range from a small group to world. They are different according to the size of the group, the characteristics of the group and so on. If the size of the group is bigger than 100,000 people, it would be very hard to define. If it is about a country, it is almost impossible. 

  Personally supposed Common Values - The common values and value judgement which a person think that almost all people think is right. This is what I am really concerned of. And I want to go further for this study. 

 
 OK. Let's go find out the relationships between the different values. 

Premises.
 In a historical view, the values changes according to the needs of people who lived in their era. It means the values come from the needs. This may be very hard for religious people or worshipers to accept. I understand that, so keep your ideas or faith if you want. And if you want to know why I think like that, you may refer it to the followings. 

The third value affects our behaviors in many ways. A person forms the value after influenced by his or her surrounding people, mass media and so on. In old times, women are supposed to work domestically, to be protected by men and no need to be educated. And really all women agreed with it? In other word, it was the actual common value? No, I don't think so. But they were suppressed not to express their ideas. They were really afraid of expressing it. Maybe there were actually many women, but they couldn't have a chance to meet those girls who have same values. 

 
Information technology and the sharing info. affects the process in which a personal value become the seemingly pervasive value, the personal common value. 

 And then, let's talk about the fashion. Many people choose their own clothes considering the above 2 values(Personal values and personally supposed common values). For example, when a person choose a cloth, he or she might choose one as he or she wants but also considers how others would might think of the cloth when he or she wears. Some might compromise in the middle of somewhere, some might choose by putting the personal value over the personally supposed common value. But in case he or she chooses a cloth which are very close to the actually common value, he or she successfully choose the cloth if he or she wants to show off. And also this applied when you choose your opposite sex partner.

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