Who goes first?

Isn’t it funny how we make decisions because of our society?  We don’t make them according to what’s good and what’s bad.  We go with the flow.  We do what others had done in the past.  Tradition.  Simple.  We do things according to our culture and how people have done before.  For example, during the abandon ship exercise, I was one of the sociologists.  It was my task to pay attention on how people work and the decisions they made.  How they made the decisions they made and who, if anyone, took the lead.  Then, after it was over we discussed as a class why results repeated over time.  Our conclusion came from the simple fact that all people who did this before were teens from the same high school, most of them white.  However, the most deciding factor we found was that we were most Americans.  As you can see, culture plays a big role in deciding social issues.  In America we value young intelligent people more than older people, therefore they were saved.  If it were another country, however, they might value family more and save older people first.  It’s all about the culture.  It’s not just in tough situations we follow our culture.  It happens all the time.  The drug bust is a perfect example of people doing things because of their friends.  Why do their friends do it?  Because society taught it was okay; it’d take them away from their problems.  As you can see, it isn’t always based on good or bad decisions; instead it is based on history.  Tradition.  Culture.