Question

Discuss word wars and how personal expectations affect parenting, friendships, marriages, and family relationships. How can the misuse of words affect one’s career and one’s life trajectory? Reflect on your personal experiences where applicable.

Answer 1

Words are the verbal symbols which help us to transfer thoughts, ideas, and expressions. The words are so important to create relations, get support and find a specific place in the social structure.

Parenting, marriage, friendships are kind of social relationships which always affected by verbal communications, we can see the role of words in relationships building, parenting and friendship. Sorry, thank you, take care are kind of symbols which possesses particular means and expressions. Words help us to emotionally connect with others while they can also discontinue the relations if we use abusive and humiliating words.

In schools, we can experience the power of words which enforce productivity and support.

In my opinion, words are more important and we can see that politicians, religious leaders, ideologists and revolution leaders like Carl Marx, Rousseau, Lenin, Mao Tse Tung, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, used effective words to get support from a large number of people. We also have experienced the solution of many disputes by verbal communication. But we must understand that the power of words come from intention behind them, raw words cannot get the proper attention. Finally, I can say that words are most important to construct or destroy relations and social structure.

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