BLOG 11

Individuals in group(CATW practice 2- revised)

              People behave different when they are in groups or in their own is stated in “Individualism in groups” by Carol Tavris adapted from “In groups we shrink”. The behavior on being in groups is stronger than being alone. Each head become lazy when they are in groups.  If people are in group, each one thinks that nothing can be done by them if there are more people around.  Each person thinks that someone else can do it. I agree with this significant idea “The more people in a group, the lazier each individual in it becomes.

People tend to leave the work to someone else. There is a Spanish novella called “Relaciones Peligrosas” where two student use to bull other students. After school started, they liked to bother a young black boy in specific. What is surprising to me is that if they had to do it individually they did not do it as if one depends on the other to do something. This remembers the way I behave when I am in group or alone. If I go somewhere where I don’t know anybody and I am lost I have to ask somebody where to go, but if I go to somewhere with a friend I tell my friend to ask.

People do not react properly when they have to. I watched news in my country, two years ago, which is the Dominican Republic, where in a Hospital and old woman collapsed in the lobby. Many people were there, people were passing and watching the poor woman complaining, but nobody helped her. Ten minutes after, a doctor came and helped her. I think that those people who were there waiting for their appointment thought that she could wait for a doctor to come.

People are very lazy when they are in a group and always one of them is going to react after. Three months ago, I was in the L train going to Brooklyn and a man fell doing weird things as if he was having a heart attack. About fifteen minutes passed and no one went to help him. But twenty minutes after, a couple took pity of the man, went to aid him and look for assistance. On my own experience, when I have to go somewhere where I haven’t been there I do not like to go alone. I always ask to somebody to go with me. I was trying to go to the gym about one month ago, and because I could not find somebody to go with me, I have not gone there yet.

In conclusion, you can be a student, a professional or a normal person but you won’t ever avoid the nature of people. When a person is in a group he/ she may think that somebody else can solve a problem but if they are alone they do not have more options than do it for themselves.