I think American government does a fairly good job of compromising with the people. A negative aspect of American government in my opinion is how it makes people feel. I don’t know much about government at all, but I feel like it should bring people together, not put them on opposite sides of the fence. I know that people have different wants and needs with everything in life, including what they want out of a government. But I still feel like something could be done to combine the wants and needs of all people.
Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves.” He went on and labeled the parties as Liberals and Serviles, Republicans and Federalists, and Aristocrats and Democrats. The part about the second group is fascinating, “not the most wise”.
Unfortaucatly most Americans do not know why other countries despise us, our leaders would like us to believe it because owe are a “democracy” and because of our freedoms. I truly believe they have puffed us up with lies and are merely forcing us into believing things will be okay for one reason. To keep us blind to the fact that they indeed have “the hand that rocks the cradle”. As I have educated myself on what public opinion is, it leaves a bad taste in me. Though I believe if we truly unite things can change based on the way things are I have to side with the public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman “Public Opinion proposes that the increased power of propaganda, and the specialized knowledge required for effective political decisions, have rendered impossible the traditional notion of democracy.” Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman used as the title of their book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
It is often overlooked because it is not physical like money or gangs, but it is this power is omnipresent. Public opinion is arguably the most influential things in America. We conform to society for the appeasement of the people around us. This often makes us uniform as a nation. We conform our behavior to match that of our neighbors.
Marriages occur between childhood or college friends, office colleagues, neighbors and acquaintances. These relationships are a result of “chemistry” between two individuals. Such marriages have a good chance of success because they arise from mutual attraction but only if a person has chosen wisely. Often, there is a mismatch between social statuses, educational qualifications, financial resources and life’s goals and aspirations of the two individuals, which after some time becomes a cause of friction and eventually leads to divorce. Arranged marriages were once very common but today this institution mostly survives in eastern countries such as India and China.
Almost all people think that getting married the one who he or she loves is natural. But there are some situations when someone cannot get married to him or her because it is socially unacceptable. The definition of marriage for different people means different things. Marriage has some forms, but nowadays the same sex marriage is the most discussed topic. So in this essay I’m going to compare the traditional marriage and the same sex marriage.
Sometimes we tend to treat minorities like our children. We want to protect them and give them every opportunity but without them earning them or learning to fall and pick themselves backup sometimes, we are truly doing them more harm than good. My fiancé and mother's views are similar and different from mine. My fiancé's response to this question was: "Minority groups are the only ones who receive representation. The difference between me people in leaderships positions are salary, and their lack of brains."
This is simply “viewing people’s behavior form the perspective of their own culture” (Schaefer, 2012, p. 54). As Americans, most of us are proud of our culture and what we believe. However, this does not mean that just because another culture chooses to live their lives differently, they are somehow “wrong”. It also does not make the way we live “right”. While the Nacrima’s practices seem strange to us, as Miner has written about them, cultural relativism is an important practice in our daily lives.
Marriage is the most important social institution, and it is a formality for the perpetuation of procreation; hence same sex marriage cannot meet this requirement. In other words, same sex marriage does not aid in procreation, which sustains our species. Same sex marriage will destroy our society. Some believe that although gay couples cannot produce children, they can have adopted children and fulfill a social need. That may seem like a good idea, but I am sure that there must be differences between a child who grows up in an environment with same sex couples than with regular heterosexual parents.
I want a government that will do whatever it takes to protect its people. I honestly do not understand why this opinion is so unpopular. It would not make us just as bad as the Saddam Hussein's and Osama Bin Laden's of the world. There is a big difference between torturing someone for say, being a homosexual, and torturing someone to protect innocent people's lives. It seems that either most Americans do not have the stomach for it or they seem to believe that sympathy for terrorists is somehow a moral virtue.