▶ Your Answer :Some people think that the extended family is important in contemporary society. However, in my opinion, the extended family do not affect our life. The reasons are the change of age and the change of lifestyle. To begin with, contemporary society is different with before. Our identity is change. Individual value is important than before age. I talk about my experience as example. When I was elementary school student, I lived together with my grand parents, and cousins. This time, our family always fought each other, because our thinking is different individually. Then, we decided that we should not live together, and split our house. Therefore, our family's the ratio of fighting decrease. We contact each other to use mobile phone and automobile. It is important that personal's live protect from others even family. On top of that, people are affected by our neighbor than family now. We have much time with our friends or coworkers. This is because our age is industry age. For example, there was a survey conducted by Korea Research Center from 1960 to 2000 with 1000 people. The purpose of the survey was to understand the view about change of family values. At 1960, people thought that we live together, because families worked together. Agriculture society was important that family live together because they need many labor. However, At 2000, An overwhelming 90% had responded that living together is not important since they did not need family's labor. They need friend or coworker's labor. To sum up, contemporary age change the form and people need others than family member. In this regard, I firmly believe that the extended family do not accurate contemporary our life. |