Importance of Cars in the United States

¶ … CARS WERE BANNED IN U.S.

Physical mobility is perhaps one of the most-crucial components in sociology; it defines what happens when people of a different culture interacts. In ideal circumstances, our personal movement is limited, and the scope of interaction will be limited to our community thanks to the discovery of automobiles. In the wake of modern automobiles, people from all walks of lives have interacted at higher and lower level; the result has been an incredible national cohesion and social acceptance. In addition, the governance, commerce and other spheres of lives have been facilitated by the diverse modes of transport. It would be unimaginable to live without automobiles; their absence will have profound effects on social, cultural and economic aspects of life.

Firstly, without automobiles, social interaction will be greatly hampered, multicultural interaction, and sociological progress of U.S. society will remain behind. Certainly, transport is a crucial tool for enhancing exposure, interaction and multifaceted interaction in any society. The growth of transport has enabled the Red Indians, Black Americans, Hispanic and Whites share a common platform, exchange views and appreciate each other. In the light of the benefits that accrue from this interaction, civil agitation, social strife, racism and other vices have been significantly eliminated. Besides, American citizens will not be able to crisscross their diverse culture and interact through schooling and sharing of social amenities. Absence of locomotives and automobiles will severe citizens relations and pose an unprecedented threat to the existing multi-cultural tolerance that exists today.

In addition, the impact on schools, health services and procurement of government services will render the U.S. social tie into oblivion. One of the driving forces of building oneness and culturally competent nation is through allowing free movement of people across the country. The U.S. colleges and Universities, today boasts of global image because of foreign students from across the globe. Certainly, this has affected the local students positively. Today, cultural acceptance is a reality and the space for personal liberty has been incredible. In the pursuit of these national importance issues, two factors are necessary; first is the freedom of movement and secondly religious tolerance.

With the absence of automobiles, regrouping of communities will ensue: a sad reality of racism and social ties that cut across cultures will dwindle. When people travel across U.S., the reality of diversity downs and need to break out of ethnocentrism becomes inevitable. According to the Intercultural communication theory, the benefits of automobiles include mutual understanding, exchange of ideas and pattern of thought and valuation of each other freedom that is necessary for growth and development. It is a fact that these benefits will be lost with the absence of automobiles, and the national cultural competence will be undesirably eroded.

There is no doubt that U.S. derives its tremendous progress from the ability to move goods from one point to the other. In addition, the movement of these goods adds value to the raw produce making them more useful and ready for use. Local and international trade relies solely on automobiles; it is, therefore, a sad reality that trade will be reduced between neighbors and the expansive foreign trade will suffocate. The impacts of lack of trade activities are overt, poor development, slowed infrastructure growth and sociological networks. According to intercultural communication theory, the role of commerce is a cornerstone in enhancing communication, cohesion and building mutually beneficial relationship. In addition, the theory further relates commerce to reason for exchanging ideas. It is definite that the commerce brings significant sociological exchanges and enhances people cultural competence. Aside from cultural competency, commerce brings together values, norms and customs of different social groups into focus. Communication is a central in enhancing commerce, and cross-cultural communication skills will be lost in a situation where automobiles abruptly disappear.

It is unimaginable to picture how the vast U.S. citizens will survive without cars and other forms of transport. Certainly, numerous adjustment will be inevitable, first is restructuring of government and commercial spheres. In this new arrangement, there will be sub-division of states into smaller cohorts for ease of governance; the national government will be rendered obsolete. Besides, the national values of social acceptance, religious and cultural tolerance will be eroded paving way for fragmentation of beliefs across the country. In essence, these adjustments will be spontaneous and sadly, most will present a backward sociological trend. Localization of trade, a shift from national orientation to communal values and localized governance will be inevitable.

In the absence of automobiles, it may be tricky to predict how American population will respond. However, the circumstances will induce a spontaneous adjustment towards localization and retrieval of the communal system of governance, commerce and cultural values. In addition, the trend towards vices such as ethnocentrism, religious and cultural intolerance will be a long-term consequence whose manifestation will be a gradual from this generation to the next. Besides, schools and social amenities will be cut out from serving nation or international platform to the regional institution.

Besides, there will be a loss of physical touch among families residing in different states, and relationships of families living in extreme ends will dwindle. Personally, life will be almost impossible without automobiles. Having travelled and made friends everywhere in the U.S. borders, it will be a sad moment to imagine the impossibility of seeing buddies. At school, for instance, many students come from different and far places: the international students from neighboring and far countries would be able to come to this institution. In addition, the vast knowledge of other cultures will dwindle, and personal development will fade. Personal lifestyles of travelling, meeting friends from across the country will be no more. In reality, it will relegate my personal strength and admiration for the diversity to only community level. It is again sad when transport from one point to another will be made difficult.

If circumstances dictate to limit my cultural interaction and scope of friendship, it will not be easy to do so, in fact, I will resume on social media friendship and massive reading on multicultural values and norms. Although this new platform may not meet the experience of physical interaction and exploration of geographical regions, it will at least allow some freedom of interaction. Sociology of interaction values a systematic understanding of peoples' way of life is more interesting in one-to-one interaction. If it is rendered into oblivion, the vast internet sources will suffice.