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The world is changing everyday, so are the people in it. Right from our mother's wombs, we grow and change. The world is growing into a huge family with all the people in different countries, knowing about, sharing and caring for one another. This is all due to change, so change is very important to us. But how do people change?  One way is by copying what we see on television and films. We learn new things from the radio, especially from news, reports and stories. We also learn by traveling to other lands to see how the people there live. We imitate what we read in books, magazines and newspapers about other country that we think are more developed than ours.
    It is important to note that no country or group of people or even a person can live alone without others. We need to associate with people of other countries to share, borrow and exchange ideas and methods. However, being copy-cats can be both good and bad. In some countries you can see the benefits of copying some ideas, which includes education, health, housing, agriculture, trade and industries by ideas we borrowed from these countries.
     Just as we are quick in copying the good things foreign and developed countries, we are also quick in picking up some habits. This is true, especially in areas like their culture and way of life which are quite different from ours. Some adult females try to look like the whites by bleaching their skins to make them lighter. In most cities in the country, you will find mostly the young boys wearing ear-ring on one ear and having funny hair styles. They wear jeans and boots or even winter jackets, that are not suitable for our climate.
   Crime has greatly increased partly because of the influence of foreign films youths watch on television, such young people have little or no respect for their culture again and there elders.

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