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There might be some people who believe that people were kinder in the past than people in the present. However, I personally disagree with the above idea for two subsequent reasons. First, today’s society is more plentiful in everything than the past. Second, people know much more about how to be kind to others than people a long time ago.
To begin with, people who live in the present can be more considerate than before because they are in more comfortable conditions. In general, the attitude of being thoughtful is closely related to the abundant social and economic situations. In the past, people spent a hard time maintaining their lives that they usually did not have enough energy or time to be gentle to others. Let me bring up my grandmother’s story as an example. When she was young, her country, South Korea, was so poor that she had to do very demanding work to earn money. Therefore, she said that it was not easy for her to treat others kindly. On the contrary, after about 40 years, the world has got much better than before, she became to live much enough than before. Accordingly, she added that she could have a merciful mind to other people. This clearly shows that today’s sufficient situations can make people nicer than in the past.
On top of that, people these days learn the meaning of being kind. Generally speaking, the way to be good to others is behaving politely, which is one of the most important attitudes for contemporary people. Therefore, today’s society educates people about it not only in the boundary of a family but also in school and workplaces. In contrast, a long time ago, there were only hierarchy systems teaching rigid obligations not how to kindly interact with others. For instance, my grandmother additionally told me that at that time, nobody taught the significance of being generous. She just had to feed her younger brothers and sisters at home and studied practical knowledge for getting a job at school. Nothing was different at workplaces. However, she said that now she can get information about the way to be kind to others anywhere. Hence, she mentioned that without this education, she would have remained as an unkind and greedy woman.
In a nutshell, today’s society is much better than the past that people can have a mind to be tolerant. Furthermore, they are educated about those polite stands everywhere. In this regard, I firmly think that people today are much kinder than in the past. |