求拍-issue65

xiao-hu-tu-shenUID: 2681670

TOPIC: ISSUE65 - "People have been so encouraged by society to focus on apparent differences that they fail to see meaningful similarities among ideas, individuals, and groups."

The speaker claims that people fail to see meaningful similarities among ideas, individuals, and groups because they have been encouraged by society to concentrate on apparent differences. In my point of view, I think that we are now encouraged to focus on differences among ideas, individuals, and groups and we have difficulty realizing the meaningful similarities among these terms.

People now tend to concentrate on differences of ideas, individuals, and groups than on meaningful similarities of them. The phenomenon is becoming more and more popular with the evolution of modern life style. Corporations focus on differences of its customers and they divide its customers considering their preferences or tastes for products and try to fulfill their demands in different ways. People may tend to concentrate on and talk to particular individuals just because they are different from others on either their behavior or dress or something else. Researchers may focus on studies that result in different ideas and they believe that these ideas are more significant for advance of science and technology.

Society does have significant influences on determination of people's focus, whether on apparent differences or similarities of ideas, individuals, and groups. Modern society encourages diversity in ideas, individuals and groups, so the focus on differences of ideas, individuals and groups may serve to this trend. Modern society shapes its people to be one who will pay more attention on those ideas, individuals, or groups which are different from others whatever their final attitude may be about them.

Seeking out similarities itself now become relatively more and more difficult which is also caused by the influence of society. The evolution of our society has resulted in more complicated ideas, individuals, and groups that are so new and complex to us that we do not know where the similarity is among these problems. Even our cleverest physicist Einstein
cannot solve the problem concerning the similarities of the gravity field with the electrostatic fields. Besides, the high pace of modern society leaves us little time to care about the similarities of ideas, individuals, and groups before the final conclusion is made. We may just conclude without a careful thinking about them and do as what other people or former people have done just to save time or other unwarranted reasons. Without the process for comparing them with other or established ideas, individuals, and groups, they of course can result in no similarity among them.

To sum up, I agree that people now have difficulties in seeing meaningful similarities among ideas, individuals, and groups and our society encourages us to focus more on individuals. However the speaker concludes unduly seriously that people now fail to maintain the ability to see the similarities. In my opinion, things have not got to that extreme point. If given proper guide and lesson, the problem will soon be alleviated and people will gain a more reasonable method in evaluating ideas, individuals, and groups.