gre写作辅导：写作资料句子31
5.AuthorityIt will not come as surprise that a society that admires independence and progress does not have an automatic respect of authority. What deference people in authority do command is base on their actual power rather than on their age, wisdom, or dignity. Old people are often seen as behind times. It’s the young who are expected to have some special insight into the modem world.
After all, it was by overthrowing the King of England that the United States was born, and suspicion of authority has remained a pillar of American life. This attitude has helped establish the USA as the birthplace of innovations that have changed the world. If a better way of doing something that changes as fast as ours, experience simply does not have the value that it does in traditional societies.
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