The Importance Of Living In Whatever Happened To Psychology

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There are many factors in our society that have played a crucial role in growth, such our families, religions, neighborhood, town, countries, and many more. They have affected our abilities, knowledge, behaviors, skills, and attitudes in so many different angles, good or bad. And all these, make us who we are today and we can’t deny it. For example, in Kinshasa, The Democratic Republic of Congo, there is a town called Kintambo where there are many catholic churches. People who live there, their life’s style turns around those churches. They work, pray, study and do all their activities there. So they have a different life style compares to other cities or towns. Well there is something that we have noticed about all the people living in kintambo, is that over 50 percent of all males of the town will end up becoming servants and priests and over over 40 percent of females will become nums. …show more content…
Grogan has stated that religion, ethical and government system, transform people's behaviors and way of thinking (Grogan page 3). In addition, living in a family, it’s one of the best experience that all us have enjoyed and have good memories. Our parents are our masters and examples, we grew up spending good time with them and appreciating all the sacrifice they did for us. Therefore we have learn to copy and imitate everything about them, we even start wishing to become one day like

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