Competition

1. Summary

Every single Americans think they are in competition with others. Competitiveness is broadly spread from East to West.
They always assessed; who is faster, smarter, richer, better looking; whose children are the most successful; whose husband is the best provider or the best cook or the best lover; which salesperson sold the most during the past quarter; who earned his first million bucks at the earliest age; and so forth.
It is clear that people who are competing with others are definitely alone, trying to maintain their superiority and simplicity, their separateness from others.

2. Personal Response

Competition is very essential stuff in doing something.It gives effectiveness, concentration, and something positive thing for something to be well done. I like competition in which I can feel more adrenalin rush. But I agree that is harmful for me too. It makes a lot of stress which sometimes gives you nightmare. Especially for children, it is worse than the elders. When they are doing something that is very necessary for them. But because of lots of stress, they’re gonna get lost interesting with it. That is very big deal. Because they don’t have chance to learn or have fun with it. (American Values and Assumption by Gary Althen)