How does competition function in our society? To what extent is it healthy/unhealthy? Offer some real world examples taken from your life, community, culture, state, nation, or world.
Competition is a contest between individuals or groups. There seems to be competition in our society, such as sports, school, artists, music, etc. There is competition between both team sports and individual sports. Teams such as football, baseball, soccer, and many other sports include competition between all the teams that play. Competition can be both healthy and unhealthy. Healthy competition encourages everyone involved to push themselves harder than they would have without competition. Unhealthy competition is when your reaction to others success is negative, rather than inspiring and motivating you. A way in which I've seen competition is when there are new singers barely starting to become famous and older singers try harder for their old fans to continue to listen to them. Another way competition is applied in my life are sport teams such as high school sports, there are many people that have friends at different schools within our district, yet we have to compete. Competition is both a good and bad thing, it is much better when you are having fun and trying to do your best rather than being a grouch and always trying to be the best all the time, when one is always trying to be competetive and is a bad sport about everything those people seem to be classified as brats because they try to be everything they want and end up being bad sports in the end with a bad attitude.
Cherrie Moraga
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