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Society News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the society facet of life. Society News Blog: Society-Values News Society values wealth and conveniences more than personal relationships: September 24, 2007 by Rose Nolen
A friend’s sister is engaged in missionary work in a primitive African village. Because she is living without what we in America would describe as basic necessities, her sister is worried. When I told her that I was finding indoor plumbing, telephones and electricity less valuable all the time, she was shocked. You know, it is true that we have probably the highest standard of living on the planet, but I’m not really sure we have the best quality of life. I began thinking that many years ago when I took a class on the anthropology of aging. That’s when I discovered that, as Americans, we don’t really treat our elderly as well as people in other parts of the world treat theirs. Some cultures revere the elderly and give them the best of care, whereas most of us confine ours into institutional living and some tend to forget they are alive. And as much as we claim to love children, thousands of them are forced into prostitution rings and others become the easy victims of sexual predators. We may spend an enormous amount of money to buy them clothes and whatever material items they want, but we don’t invest time and caring in them. The truth is that we are so much about money (and in order to survive, we have to be) that we are too exhausted at the end of the work day to really think about our relationships with other people. Society News Blog Comment: Why are we so much about money after all? It not only corrupts our society values but also ruins our health as well as our joy of life. In fact, our social values are but a mask over our subtle cunningness that we employ in our interaction with our relations, be those business relations or be those personal! We are living an artificial and unethical life. Wanna have some bidding fun with 'Values' on ebay auction? You might grab a bargain or two! Just say your bid and you're done: Sign up with AuctionAds as a publisher and receive $25 right now! I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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