Old-fashioned values in the nowadays world Most people indeed tend to judge their peers and colleagues, friends and even relatives by their social status; it became a common way of assessing people in the modern world. A lot of people think it is wrong and we should pay more attention to the old-fashioned values, such as kindness and trust, but materialistic ideals seem to gain more and more popularity among people in many places around the world now. We do overrate social status and material possessions, especially when it comes to judging other people. Let’s take material possessions, such as cell phones, cars, luxury watches and clothes. Why do people buy these things? Do we really need them? Of course we don’t, that’s why we don’t wear high-heels or suits when we’re at home. When you are at your own room everything you wear and everything you do doesn’t depend on nobody but ourselves, we don’t need to show off to impress somebody. It is humans’ nature, we will never stop judging people, and we choose appearance, money and status, just because these are the most convenient criteria. It is pretty difficult to assess the level of kindness or honor, so all that is left for us is to choose the most obvious aspects. Besides, everybody does so, it’s easier to follow the crowd. Although we have such a negative trend, but it doesn’t mean, that we shouldn’t try to improve this situation. I don’t say, that we can change the world at once, but we can start from ourselves, encourage kids to be kind, be polite to other people, it is possible become a reliable person and choose the friends you can trust. A Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one first step", so we have a long way to go before we can see the results.