Collective Effort: Tribe By Sebastian Junger

In our society today it is very rare when we see any type of collective effort among our communities. Everyone is stuck doing their own things, matter of fact in today's society you can be struggling with something surrounded by a lot of people watching and wouldn’t move a finger to try and help. Collective effort has a process there are things that us the people are required to act on. In the book Tribe by Sebastian Junger tells us the steps, process and timeline of collective effort. Junger argues that most foreign countries tend to have less percentage of suicidal rates and live humble but happy than here in the United States. Junger also says that there is a high chance of collective effort being practiced in countries that have been …show more content…
It was heartbreaking for majority of people but especially for the people who were under the protection of that program. It was recommended to get as many signatures as possible so the president plus the council officials could see how many people were against that removal of the program. My whole community and myself started to divide ourselves to go and collect as much signatures as we could. It was challenging but there was hope that with a lot of signatures council officials would see that the program was indeed useful to many of the people under the care of that program. Majority of the people in my community were under the DACA care and seeing them depressed and worried about the situation gave us a even more bigger reason on why we need to collaborate together and see what possibilities we had to try and make a change. Although we collected more than 5,000 signatures DACA was still removed, but a lot of us are glad we didn’t stop fighting for what we believed was the right thing to do throughout the whole process, now as a community we are all united more than ever supporting all DREAMERS to try anything to help them get their program …show more content…
People in our society today only think about themselves. It takes a whole community a whole group to come together and make an effort and work together to have positive results. Although I do believe that MAYBE in some really important occasions that instinct may kick-in in every person to make a big movement together as one. Culturally I wouldn’t think it would be possible because many things are being forgotten in every culture. As generations pass the elderly are sticking with their cultural beliefs as the young people are not being taught about their culture so the traditions start to fade