Fear+and+Openness+to+Change+Reflection

===Change is a concept that is hard for Americans to grasp. Fear is a major reason that it is so hard to create change. Many Americans fear what is unfamiliar to them and close off anything new and different. As not all Americans are like this, majority of Americans are. The Americans in fear are the ones who do not support equal rights within race gender and sexual orientation. Americans with an open mind are the ones who are protesting for equal rights for these people. From the start of American history, we have been looking down on anyone who is not "normal". In early American society, "normal" was a straight, white, and wealthy male. As society is changing rapidly, the beliefs of the people in the early America are no longer the thoughts of the people born in our generation. I feel that the people who have the most fear in America are the people who had lived in the time where "normal" was everything. As times have changed, it is hard for people of older generations to accept this, and that is because it is something that goes against what they grew up with something new and different, so fear sets in. Most protestors are younger and see the irrationality in thinking that there is a "normal". Hopefully the generations to come will come to realized that change is needed to grow. We as Americans want to grow, and in order to do that we need to be excepting to new ideas and concepts and stop living in fear.===

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