▶ Your Answer :
Understanding
significant characteristics of society is important in order for us to live harmoniously
with other members in our society. As the statement argued, I believe that one
must study its major cities to gain the insights about the characteristics.
Major cities have numerous and diverse population, which means that people can
appreciate the characteristics more clearly by advantaging the large amounts of
human behavioral samples, especially in terms of social competition and mutual collaboration.
A
researcher will be able to observe and scrutinize society characteristics by
examining how people in a major city behave and interact, mainly focused in social
competition. As denoted in the previous paragraph, major cities possess abundant
members, which will be a valuable group of researchable sample for a study. New
York City, a metropolitan that has diverse population coming from more than 50 nations,
can be a good example. The new yorkers often walk fast, speak fast, and always
look their watches on their hands to catch up their daily schedules. What is
behind here is that they socially compete with each other for better
development in their lives, e.g., work, education, and raising children. This
type of social characteristics, being fast for competition, can be legitimately
studied in the major cities, not small sized cities.
In
addition to the competing characteristic, people could be able to observe how
citizens collaborate with other members in the community for a better
performance. Back in the example of the Big Apple, food industry is well
collaborated to enhance their qualities. For instance, many diverse foods are nowadays
mixed, shared, and evolved to make a new and attractive cuisine such as a Kimchi
pasta, Sushi burger, or 51 spiced grilled chicken skew. These foods are called
fusion cuisine as the chefs fusion each countries’ recipes in experimental
manners. Collaboration across culture to culture, an important characteristic
of a modern society, only can be found by studying major cities.
These
exampled aspects may be examined at a small or mid sized cities; however, the
chances will be not that high enough compared to major cities, e.g., New York
City or Los Angeles, because of the small sized cities’ insufficient amounts of
sample size. Thus, it is recommended to study major cities, especially with
regards to human behaviors, to cogently scrutinize the important
characteristics of society. |