tailieunhanh - Collection 114 essays part 5

Perhaps the tendency toward individualism has never been clearer than it is now. People seem to become increasingly self-centred and snobbish. I side with those people who believe that reviving (he bygone concept of family and community is important. | Topic 41 Today people are getting greedy and selfish. Some people argue that we should go back to the old days and show respect for the family and community so that we can make the world a better place to live in. To what extent do you agree or disagree Perhaps the tendency toward individualism has never been clearer than it is now. People seem to become increasingly self-centred and snobbish. I side with those people who believe that reviving the bygone concept of family and community is important. The rise of egoism has profound consequences on the unity of a family causing the breakdown of family solidarity. Every component of a family can be detrimentally affected if one member is egoistic. Blood is thicker than water as an old saying indicates. People will turn to family first if they are confronted with problems. People used to live in a community in which they lived according to an ethos of sharing and caring but nowadays members of a family tend to work separately for their individual benefits. They are ignorant of the fact that families not only give them tangible benefits e. g. financial aid but also offer emotional support from which they obtain strength comfort and confidence. Egoism also causes people to ignore the good of the community a problem that is disruptive to the community. So greedy are some people that they can go so far to engage in illegal activities. For example some merchants cam handsome incomes from producing disqualified products and cajoling people to buy what they do not actually need. They meanwhile refuse to plough back any fraction of their income to the community. Individuals become indifferent to others interests and the relationship between individual members tends to become superficial transient and ad hoc. People remain as onlookers when neighbours ask for help and social solidarity has been dismantled in front of the overwhelming egoism. As shown above greedy and egoism are set to bring both the society and the families in