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Essay: "Neighbors"by James Rowley
A Community Divided against Itself is Doomed
It seems to be our human nature to stereotype others and trash-talk them, because we don't want people to like others more than us. We don't care about whose feelings we hurt; we just want to make ourselves look better than them.
In prison and society, we are faced with many different options of how easy or hard our time will go. No matter which path we choose, there will always be someone talking badly about us, or people we hang around. We choose to be jealous, greedy, deceitful, selfish, etc in an attempt to get more people to like us instead of someone else. Shouldn't we start helping each other instead of hurting them? |