PROMPT #8 "In The Past People Were Friendlier Than We are Today.AGREE OR DISAGREE?"

Do you feel like the world has changed a lot, and I mean A LOT from ancient days? Not ancient but from maybe about fifty or thirty years ago? The world has changed A LOT. From the past years, there were many technological improvements and numerous improvements that have made the world today possible for us. As time passed, the technology advanced and people were able to do anything easily. An example could be how before the internet was invented, if someone was curious about, let’s say “elephants” then they would have had to go to the library to find books about elephants or would have had to look up elephant in the encyclopedia. After the internet was invented, people could just type in the word “elephant”on Google and in about two seconds numerous sites would come up where they would tell you information a whole lot of information about elephants. I feel that people were friendlier before all of these improvements.

Before some of the improvements on various things like cellphones, television, cars, and many other things, people were friendlier. I feel like when people do not have something they tend to be nicer. If the inventions and improvements were never made, people would not have had the tendency to look down on people who cannot afford many expensive things. Nowadays, everyone in the world cares about what they wear, and what they own. If someone does not have a phone these days, he or she would be teased. If someone does not have an expensive brand laptop; he or she would be teased. If someone does not wear expensive clothes, he or she would be teased. If someone does not have brand bags like Chanel or Prada, he or she would be teased. If someone does not have brand shoes like Nike and Adidas, they would be teased. If someone does not have the newest iPod or phones, he or she would be teased. If we were in the old times, it would not have mattered what you owned or what you had because everyone did not care a lot about those things. People did not mind what people owned because there were not many new inventions back then and people did not look down on you just because you could not afford to buy something. If you see it this way, people in the past were friendlier than how people are today.

People in the past were friendlier because there were no reasons for them to tease someone for anything. Now if someone does not like how their nose looks like, or how their lips or eyes look like, they could just go get plastic surgery and become pretty. You could even be extremely fat and just pay to get your fat removed without having to do any exercise. The bad thing is that only the rich people could afford to pay for these expensive operations. So the rich could be less friendly to the poor because they have more power over what they could do and how they could look. Being friendly is not just being kind to one person; it is how you treat everyone. If you see how the world has changed with all of these improvements, it could be a plus for the world but could also me a negative thing. These improved operations and modernized things to buy has made this world more modern and a more advanced world, but it has made a line between the people who could afford it and who cannot afford it. If you see it in this way, people were friendlier in the past than they are today.