According to dictionary.com, love is a feeling of a warm personal attachment or deep affection, towards parent, child or a friend. In this modern world, the dominate elements ruling is fear and hatred. For me, love is giving your all to people without being selfish or expecting anything back. Love brings people together even in tough times, so we need love in our society not hate. But is love still relevant in our society? It is not only relevant, but essential tool to the society as long as humans are social species and rely on social bonding. And also, I think it is important because love conquers, and it is always the answer. In our society, Conditional love is the new definition to replace what love really is. In this contemporary world, people are discouraged …show more content…
Love does not shift blame but in terms of this world, there is always a debate over who is right. Modernization in our society is changing the transcultural aspects of love. Living with people with different background, do not hinder love, but instead it opens our minds to have cultural perspectives. For instance, In Ghana where I am from, about 50% of the population of marriages are intermarriages. This means that the two partners are from different ethnic background and almost half of the people marry from different ethnic groups. Without love there will be a tribal war in the society. The intermarriages among different ethnic groups bring peace and harmony in the country and by 50%, it really shows how love is relevant in globalization and urbanization. In our love you campaign, there were a lot of ups and down, in which I faced which will be discussed. In this paper I am going to write about my encounter with family and friends, strangers and celebrities who shared their views on love. There were different opinions on how they see love, but they were all aiming on one goal which is unity among
Love is a universal emotion. At some point in their lifetime, people will experience some form of love, whether it be romantic, platonic, or familial; however, not everyone experiences love the same way. There are many factors that contribute to the way a person views love, receives love, and expresses love: their family dynamic, past relationships, and most importantly, their culture. One of the factors that most influences how a person receives and expresses romantic love is the culture and society surrounding them. In Junot Diaz’s
Love enables families to overcome differences to create
Love is essential to overcoming adversity and it is the ability to cause change in yourself and
They are unafraid to overcome diversity in order to persevere in seeking the forbidden love which is displayed by
Frank Tebbets once said, “A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.” Love is essential for human beings to live a fulfilled and happy life. Love or the
Love will always remain relevant because of the human nature of families and people not getting
Ultimately, A Separate Peace is a powerful reminder of the impact that love can have on livelihood and the ways in which it can shape a sense of
So in conclusion this shows how in Brave New World family relationships and monogamous relationships are not valued because they cause instability but in Gattaca, family relationships and monogamous relationships are valued because they give the best possible outcome and development for future
While people are often able to identify when they feel the emotion love, love itself seems to defy definition. In her essay “Against Love”, Laura Kipnis argues that love cannot exist within the social forms associated with love, such as marriage, monogamy, mutuality, and domesticity. However, in her argument, she fails to offer her definition of love and does not identify love as an emotion.
Deep, intense, and long-lasting individuals use love to express their true emotions. Love is the passionate affection and desire felt by lovers for each other. While love can be so powerful, it is also demanding. Love is unique, love is special. Whether it is the impacts, love and an addiction both have on the body to how they change a person or to how they make a person feel, love is an addiction.
Love will never be strong enough to ease the real world conflicts. It is imperative that judgement is not driven by
According to this theory, nature of love is changing fundamentally and it can create either opportunities for democracy or chaos in life (Beck & Beck- Gernsheim, 1995). Love, family and personal freedom are three key elements in this theory. This theory states that the guidelines, rules and traditions which used to rule personal relationships have changed. “Individuals are now confronted with an endless series of choices as part of constructing, adjusting, improving or dissolving the unions they form with others” (Giddens, 2006). For instance, marriage nowadays depends on the willingness of the couples rather than for economic purposes or the urge to form family.
What is Love? If you were to search it up you get the vague definition which reads: an intense feeling of deep affection. But it’s so much more, it has so many different meanings to people. Even wrong meanings that people associate it with. Love comes in many different forms, such as: friendship, family, and partnership.
What is love? Everybody has his/her own understanding and definition of love. In order to better understand all the complexity of such a phenomenon, it is worth analyzing specific scenarios. Therefore, this paper concentrates on one of such scenarios, which, in fact, is one from my personal experience. I had been in a long-distance relationship that had lasted a little over a year.
The article’s purpose is to pinpoint specific cultural traits that cause problems in modern relationships. It dives into the history of marriage to illustrate that our modern views on marriage and love are new and specific to the twentieth century. Cultural shifts in our individualistic tendencies are responsible for some of the problems marriages face today. The article poses the underlying idea that perhaps society’s individualistic nature is too self-centered to the point that we push out other’s needs, feelings, and happiness. 4.