There are different opinions regarding what qualities are important to good neighbors. Of course, it can look ridiculous to limit good neighbors’ qualities or characteristics to several pieces because there are numerous qualities that they should have. However, I will explain my idea by presenting two qualities with their reasons.
First of all, to be good neighbors, people try to cooperate actively with each other. All kinds of people do not want to participate in bothersome works when someone does not join them. While people who are not cooperative with stuff at their communityhave a possibility to break harmony with each other, cooperative ones can motivate people to engage voluntarily in their works. For example, in my apartment, a family who lived on upper floor did not want to participate in a meeting where people decided how to solve their problem saying that they had no time to spend. And then, if a given solution from the meeting was not satisfied with them, they did not follow it. This became a reason why people wanted to deprive them of the right to be involved in problems of the community. In other words, they broke peaceful harmony with each other and made trouble in their community, and as a result, they had no choice but to move to a different apartment. If they had actively and voluntarily engaged in the meeting and tried to solve problems, they would not have had to move.
Second, good neighbors should respect other people’s privacy because everyone has their own secrets which they want to hide. If a person finds out his neighbor’s secret and spread it around neighborhood, he will not live there anymore and move to other places. Furthermore, nowadays, with people having a tendency to be sensitive to their personal problems, they will take a legal action against a person who tries to find out their privacy. For example of a couple of movies, all protagonists fall into a trouble because they try to find out their neighbor’s secrets which are considered suspicious, which makes them to face fatal situations and even death. If they had observed social norms that good neighbors should respect other’s privacy, they would not have faced such situations. To refer to another example, I, being reluctant to be related to another person’s affairs, have never faced fatal situations since I was born.
In conclusion, based on what I have just mentioned, I am convinced that people who cooperate actively with other ones and respect other’s privacy have sufficient qualifications to become a good neighbor.
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