extra) What is more important: the actions of individuals or the environment that influences them?

In my opinion, environment has much more power than the actions of individuals. Many problems in life comes from one’s bad habit and it is usually built long time ago. I think habit is the hardest thing to change and that’s why so many people can’t change themselves even though they try to make a difference plenty of times. For example, if you want to lose weight, you need to exercise regularly. You would watch the individuals who have succeed in losing weight, which can be a great motivation because you want to follow them. However, it is hard to actually change than when the environment like the whole diet is changed by force. Also, most of the people follow the major opinion in society. That is why the tradition and taboos are different in each countries. Individual actions may change things as well, but it can’t beat the general move of public.
 

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