Change in America
Change in Society
Within today’s society, people are constantly open to new technological and intellectual improvements, but when it comes to any disruptive alteration in the life that American citizens know, love, and are accustomed to, no measures can be taken in order to implement new innovations, even if it were for the welfare of the people themselves. The majority of the society today is resistant to great shifts in the American culture that would possibly cause some differentiation to their life that is currently flourishing, including shifts towards the acceptance of same-sex marriage, the widespread dissolution of extremely unhealthy fast food chains, and surprisingly, the elimination of racial, gender, and religious discrimination and profiling that long exists in today’s culture. In almost all situations, it applies to the people involved that even if a new belief is more successful than a previous one, if that previous one is believed to be successful, people will resist changing it out of fear that the new ways won’t be as successful as the former. In the case of same-sex marriages, the citizens of the United States, for the majority of the nation’s existence, have predominantly been of the Christian faith, which strictly prohibits this “sin”. From this Christian faith, the growth of the glorious nation has blossomed and flourished, but its roots are never forgotten, as shown in the United States’ Pledge of Allegiance, in which referring to the country as “one Nation, under God”. The overpowering Christian influences in today’s society hinder the enforcement of changes that could lead to a more accepting culture, including the same-sex marriages, which are met with such radical protests vying to keep their marriage illegal. As previously stated, Americans consider change as unnecessary when living comfortably with the existing societal rules, fearing that any differentiation could threaten the lives they live. Through this theory, the considerable
Within today’s society, people are constantly open to new technological and intellectual improvements, but when it comes to any disruptive alteration in the life that American citizens know, love, and are accustomed to, no measures can be taken in order to implement new innovations, even if it were for the welfare of the people themselves. The majority of the society today is resistant to great shifts in the American culture that would possibly cause some differentiation to their life that is currently flourishing, including shifts towards the acceptance of same-sex marriage, the widespread dissolution of extremely unhealthy fast food chains, and surprisingly, the elimination of racial, gender, and religious discrimination and profiling that long exists in today’s culture. In almost all situations, it applies to the people involved that even if a new belief is more successful than a previous one, if that previous one is believed to be successful, people will resist changing it out of fear that the new ways won’t be as successful as the former. In the case of same-sex marriages, the citizens of the United States, for the majority of the nation’s existence, have predominantly been of the Christian faith, which strictly prohibits this “sin”. From this Christian faith, the growth of the glorious nation has blossomed and flourished, but its roots are never forgotten, as shown in the United States’ Pledge of Allegiance, in which referring to the country as “one Nation, under God”. The overpowering Christian influences in today’s society hinder the enforcement of changes that could lead to a more accepting culture, including the same-sex marriages, which are met with such radical protests vying to keep their marriage illegal. As previously stated, Americans consider change as unnecessary when living comfortably with the existing societal rules, fearing that any differentiation could threaten the lives they live. Through this theory, the considerable