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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

accept ourselves for

Being different is what makes us all special, so we should accept ourselves for who we are instead of trying to be perfect in everything.

Q) Is "accept ourselves for who we are" part thought of like this?

"Being different ... we should accept ourselves just like ourselves ...."
  

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moon7296 we should accept ourselves for who we are Accept yourself means not to be critical of your faults or be unhappy with your natural looks. For example, you might wish you had blue eyes, but yours are brown. You might wish you were smarter or prettier, or that your family were richer.

— AlpheccaStars

  • moon7296 we should accept ourselves for who we are Accept yourself means not to be critical of your faults or be unhappy with your natural looks.
  • For example, you might wish you had blue eyes, but yours are brown.
  • You might wish you were smarter or prettier, or that your family were richer.
  • But if you accept yourself as you are, you are happy with your brown eyes, your intelligence, and how you look, etc.
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moon7296we should accept ourselves for who we are
Accept yourself means not to be critical of your faults or be unhappy with your natural looks. For example, you might wish you had blue eyes, but yours are brown. You might wish you were smarter or prettier, or that your family were richer. But if you accept yourself as you are, you are happy with your
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Hello AlpheccaStars. Emotion: smile
I'd like to ask you one thing.
I'd like to know why 'for' is used in "accept ourselves for who
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moon7296Q) Is "accept ourselves for who we are" part thought of like this?"Being different ... we should accept ourselves just like ourselves ...."
That's a rather cryptic paraphrase. I prefer this:

..., so we should accept the fact that we are different instead of ...
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I find the ending of the sentence somewhat
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I'm so sorry for badgering you. Emotion: crying
But I couldn't forbear my curiosity, so I'd like to check with you whether right is my interpr
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park sang joon'if' expresses 'even if'
Either 'if' or 'even if' can be used in that kind of parenthetical expression, but just 'if' is quite usual.
park sang joonI think "if only for argument (or) the erroneous view of popular culture" is inserted
I don't understand why you have included "(or) the erroneous view of popular c
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I'm such a fool Emotion: sad

I suppose the writer is accepting the erroneous view of popular culture that perfection is being e
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park sang joonI see. I didn't think about that as 'apposition'
Ah. Well, it is.

accepting the erroneous view of popular culture ~ accepting that perfection is being exactly like everyone else

Or, stated differently,

The erroneous view of popular culture IS that perfection is being exactly like everyone else.

CJ
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