phoniness and sincer act?

Question

this is my assigment question (urgent)..hope u can give me the detail answer:
question :
Although we tend to condemn “ phoniness”(虚假), we also seem to want it. This is to say, we like to be conned or “ smooth talked “. We are also aware of the xtent to which we feel impelled at times to “ put on an act “. Goffman rises the question of the place of phoniness in social relations and refuses to permit us to dismiss it as an easy issue by saying that phoniness is bad and that we do not want anything to do with it. How do we differentiate the phony from the sincere act ? more important, to what extent has “ phoniness” become an important part of modern Malaysian society?

can help me to find:

1)How to diffentiate sincere act and phoniness.

2)the example for sincere act and phoniness..


3) conclusion part
- phoniness is good or bad behavior?

Answer 1

whoa. you got me. sometimes its nice to be phony so you dont hurt peoples feeeelings.