Friday, October 9, 2009
week 8
dependency is a odd concept, as Morrie says we are dependent on people when we are born and when we die, but in the middle we are even more dependent on others. For some reason when we grow up we think being dependent on others is a taboo thing. For instance some people when they lose their job they refuse to get unemployment gov. payments. I think the main reason we think dependency is taboo is because as amricans we believe we can acomplish anything, and we don't need others help to acomplish our goals. American values like pride and individualism make us think that dependency is an awful thing.
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Dependency is a thing that we think is a taboo because we live our life saying we are an individual but we really are not. I totally agree with you
ReplyDeleteYEs, Individualism is one value and the others are self-help and hard work Together these make us think we should not have to depend on anyone but ourselves. But really, we need others. We need people to talk to, to laugh with, to cry with to be scared with to care about and to care about us.
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