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Some people say that it is important to cooperate with others well today than in the past. However, on the other hand, I think that it is more important in the past than now to cooperate with people for the following reasons : people were not able to make up their living if they do not cooperate and because they have neighbours very close to them, it was important to cooperate.
First of all, it was important to cooperate with others to help out each other when they need some help. This is due to the fact that people had to make all things by themselves at that time and those works required a lot of labor sometimes like when you are building a house or planting rice. It was not easy for them to do those things by themselves as it took lots of time and effort. To be specific, there was a research done by Seoul National University showing comparison between the past and now how things got simpler and easier by the technology development. They found out that almost all works could be done with all sorts of machines. There was hardly a thing that could not be done. People now do not have to depend on somebody else to help them with any kinds of work and therefore the importance of cooperating with others is weaken.
In addition, it was important to cooperate and keep a good relationship with neighbours in the past. This is attributed to the fact that people usually lived in a village, their houses side by side. Because they see each other very often and people at that time did not move their homes easily, it was common for people to live with their neighbours next to them for entire life. To be specific, if they had not keep a good relationship, they would have lived a stressful life because they see one another as many times as they see their family members. Unlike in the past, now many people live in an apartment building, only have a few neighbours in each floor and they hardly see each other as they are busy with their own lives. There was a survey done by some apartments asking how many times they see their neighbours and how close they are with them. The result was that there were people even did not know who lived next door and they were not usually close with them, just showing basic curtesy by simple greetings. This implies that because people in the past lived their lives with their neighbours close, it would have been important to cooperate with them in order to live happy lives.
In brief, although the ability to cooperate is important now, there were more needs of this ability in the past to make up their living easy and to live happy lives with the neighbours living next door.
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