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Some people might say that the extended
family is important. They could say they can learn about a profound family culture
as one of reasons. However, I believe that the extended family is less
important now, compare to the past decades. This is because people generally do
not live with their extended family. Also, people in these days are too busy.
To begin with, it is not common that living
with their extended family, or living close to their extended family today.
Around two decades ago, it was common that living with or living close to a lot
of family members including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and so on. However, as
time goes by, the size of family has been decreased, and the frequency of
meeting extended family has been decreased, too. This situation naturally
discourages people communicate with their extended family. In a nutshell, it
will be no difference between extended family and strangers in near future.
Considering current trend, I believe that the importance of extended family is
just an illusion.
Secondly, nowadays, people live in a big
competition. All the things related to their life belong to the matter of
competitions. For example, teenagers compete their academic grades, a business
man compete their companies. There is no enough time to looking how their
family lives well or similar things. According to the research conducted by
Korean University in 2010, eighty-percent of people talks with their extended
family once a month. Furthermore, half of the people who are in the eighty-percent
answered that they do not care about their extended family because of their
tight life. This result shows the fact that people do not consider their
extended family as cherish human beings in the world, contrast to the past
tendency.
To sum up, family separation has brought
less communication and indifference to the extended family. Struggle for hot
competition in these days prevents people from paying attention to their family
members, especially to the extended family members. Taking all these things
into account, I think the extended family is less important now than before.
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