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Some
people think that people nowadays are more honest than people who lived in the
past. However, in my opinion, people in the past were more honest than that of
nowadays. There are two reasons; in these days, the more individualism
stronger, the more people don’t be mind about other people's eyes, and in the agrarian
culture, people knew each
other very well because of community spirit, so they couldn’t do bad
things such as crime or illegal act easily.
To
begin with, nowadays, individualism is overflowing, so many people don’t care of
others’ eyes. This is because, in these days, when people do illegal act, they
think ‘I am ok, other’s not ok’, often. For example, in August, 2018, in the
coast of Mexico, hundreds of sea turtles were founded as dead because of abandoned
net. In the Mexico, government prohibit fishing in this coast, and designated
sea turtle as protected animal because it is endangered species. Police of
Mexico assumed net was abandoned by tuna fishing boat that do illegal fishing.
This show selfishness of individual made slaughter of sea turtles of
Mexico.
On
top of that, people who lived in the agrarian culture, in the past, community
cultures were developed. This is because, in the agrarian culture, labor was
important when they do farming. For instance, in the past of Korea, community
cultures were widen. In Korea, Duryea is good example. Duryea means one type of activities
of community of agrarian culture in Korea. In Korean town in that time, people who live
same town, they know each other well, so they also know other’s personality,
family, and economic power each other. Also, in the community society, if
someone do illegal act or crime, his or her family, friend or town people were
also punished
severely. Thus, they couldn’t do anything like these bad acts, however, this
culture was disappeared from late of 19th century when industrialization
was started.
To
sum up, citizens who lived in the past were positive than those of nowadays,
because of individualism and extinct of community cultures. In this regard, I
believe that people in the past was more truthful than whose of nowadays for
the reasons I mentioned above.
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