Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Seonyoung Hwang_Timed Essay_Tue 9 a.m.

     When people hear the word 'family' I can confidently say that many people would imagine four family members- father, mother, a boy, and a girl. Surprisingly, in especially Asian countries, it is considered to be a 'typical family' even though it's been only hundreds years ago when third generation often lived in a same household. As society becomes urbanized and Western ideas influence, many Asian people see nuclear family becoming more common nowadays. These trends consequently lead to communication technology development as well as wide spread of individualism.

     Urbanization is attributable to one of reasons of smaller family trends. Due to the development of cities, people began immigrating into cities for a better working opportunity as well as better quality of life. This caused the separation between older generation and younger generation and therefore, the trends of smaller families have been brought about. Accordingly, communication between the families became pivotal and this eventually contributed a society to the development of communication technology.

     Influence of Western ideas can also be one of the causes of the trends. Thanks to the globalization, people from the other side of the world may obtain not only mere information but also cultural aspects. Asian countries welcomed the Western cultures which give priority on individualism and independency. Thus, the idea of being independent when people are mature enough has been permeated and consequently, led a society to become a nuclear family society.

     These days, in accordance with the world becoming modernized, the family system has been changed. These trends have been produced as a result of urbanization which affected a society to develop its communication technology and the introduction of Western ideas which wielded influences on changing many country citizens' way of thinking. Indeed, it shows that the modernity and globalization are closely connected to a change of society.

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