Recently, Chinese people have released a new trend called the “flaunt you wealth” challenge, and a huge number of people participated. In this challenge, people pretended to be fallen out of luxury cars on the sidewalk, dressed in classy clothes, and the ground filled with their valuable possessions of money, bags, shoes, electronics and other precious stuffs. Well, I think taking such a picture and posting it on social media is silly and funny as well because it has no meaning and no use. What would you benefit from showing your possessions to people? Nothing. Sometimes these behaviors and bragging lead to consequences. I am strongly against flaunting of wealth because sometimes these actions hurt people’s feelings, and it is a cause of depression and a feeling of inferior. So, we should be proud of our morals, not money because money doesn’t last. In episode 3 “ways of seeing”, Berger discussed some historical oil paintings which also show wealth. They are analogous in demonstrating wealth by showing valuables, but there is a difference in attitudes. Maybe in the oil painting there is a kind of exaggerated boast. The way they look at the spectator. Also, in the modern image there is a kind of exaggerated artificiality which is not existed in the oil painting. It is pretty clear that you want to show how rich you are.

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