Winners And Losers

Introduction

Winners and losers are always present in every field, organization, and society. From the moment people are born, they face winning and losing their acceptance or not. In order to win for someone, there must be some losers. The American idea of winning and losing revolves around the concept that champions are those who put their mind to combating their rivals. American society is mostly concerned with winning as the result of extreme efforts and hard work. For Americans, it is very hard to enjoy their leisure time because of the competitions where they think that winning is more important than losing. Society is convinced that competition is more enjoyable than playing, which provides people with learning about winning and losing.

Discussion

According to the famous football, couches winning is not everything; it is the only thing. The cultural domination of the Americans assumes that competition is the primary motive that plays a central role in defining the losers and the winners. The assumption also gives value to the preserved, hard work and all the pathways which lead to the winners. However, there is a lack of infinite new ways which could prove the idea of winners. In the same way, the assumption of American society does not consider the way competition can turn into a complete loss of courtesy. Defining and explaining the winners and the losers cause Americans to value cooperation and inherent motivation (Lelkes, 530). The two writers and the authors of numerous social books on American culture, Joshua Davis and Alfie Kohn, question the assumption that constructs each and every aspect of American lives. These assumptions reflect the obsession of American lives with the concepts of losers and winners.

The American Revolution was one of the greatest events for the Americans. The massive struggle and the hardcore campaign for independence have constituted the real concept of winners in their minds. The revolution resulted in the winners and losers. The patriots who represented the new liberties and freedom were the successful people who gained independence for their homeland. On the contrary, the loyalists or the Tories were defeated because the Crown was the loser in the hardcore struggle. The American writers and the authors of many books have also represented their community through the literature that Americans are men of action. They prefer to act immediately without much wait. Such slogans and writing unfolded, and Americans learned the lesson of winners and losers by striving for actions that were mostly hardcore and struggle-based.

The present American society is not divided by racial, economic, religious, or political divisions. It is mostly divided by the division, which is considered as winners and losers. For example, the president of America, Donald Trump, is the divider in chief (Page, 535). He is one of the most important protagonists in society, explaining the phenomena of winners and losers. He was born on the third base and thought that he hit a triple while sarcastic at those who mostly struggle and are always out. However, the president did not invent the dichotomy between losers and winners. He was among those who exploited the phenomena. The culture of America provides a self-promoting mentality. The idea was bred from the European culture, where every individual supposed that efforts could raise them as high as their struggle.

The development of the commercial culture intensifies the impulses of being the winner or the losers in American society. Other than in Europe, where social boundaries are higher and ordinary people have to move for status rather than wealth, Americans are mostly concerned with artistic and intellectual success (Taylor, 470). Writings show that the concept of a wonderful life is not because of wealth but because of spiritual and artistic successes. Many in the American community lose money in order to find the wealth of love and independence. The concept of winners and losers varies according to the norms and cultural behaviours of the respective society.

The Americans are increasingly unhappy with their lives, not because of the need for material abundance but because of the divisions that are flowing in society. The research concluded that the crisis in America is not economic but a social crisis between winners and losers. The repairing of the crumbling culture could refine it. Wealth cannot play a role in renovating society. People need to stop thinking about winners and losers and focus their attention on community-based factors. Trust and great equality can be the real meaning of winners and losers to the American community. The people of the US have paid a steep cost for placing the frame of winners and losers.

Losers are not those who are being blamed by Trump for their predicament. Similarly, losers are not those who have deep hatred against those whom they consider as undermining them (Lelkes, 530). It is that losers, with their brainwashing from the influence of their culture, learn to blame themselves. The national will and the power are shaped by concepts such as winners and losers. In the same way, it affects the political power and processes. Winners and losers are everywhere in the world. With the loss of one other, one has to win. It is impossible to conceptualize the phenomena that both parties could win. In the animal, the same culture is operating.

People and the animals they are born in this mortal world have to win or lose. There is always another person and animal that is better than the existing individuals. George Orwell, in his Animal Farm, revealed that pigs are winners because of their win at the time they were born. The cause of the winning pigs is that they were born into the intelligent community, whereas other animals are the losers (Zhu, 911). Writing and the books also describe the phenomena of winning and losing. Some of them portray the example of soldiers where the top general in a ranking position does not have to fight the war. On the other hand, soldiers are the losers because they ace the war and also the deaths in spite of their survival. Being a winner or a loser, one cannot choose anyone because the individual can be the winner for one but a loser for the others.

Similarly, like other cultures and descriptions of the winner losers concept, the American community have also learned both perceptions from their social and individual life. From the American Revolution of Independence to the postmodern American society, there is a significant gap between the society over the winners and the losers. The influence of political and social ideologies, along with the setting of cultural beliefs, has led to the development of certain winners’ and losers’ thoughts in the minds of Americans (Taylor, 470). Society is deeply rooted in the obsession with winning without focusing on the losing.

Conclusion

Concluding the discussion, American culture is driven by the demand side rather than the supply side. There is infinite variety in the American culture of winners and losers. The struggle and the hard work, along with competition in society, have a significant impact on the learned behaviours of Americans about being the winner or the loser. The quest for excellence is the primary factor that has helped Americans recognize themselves as the winners of the 21^st century.

Works Cited

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