Would the U.S. be better

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11. IN the "culture wars," some contributing factors to the loss of civility, compassion, and a sense of community

came from "reality TV" which has nothing to do with reality.

I'm thinking of programs like Survivor, where participants regard the people around them as opponents to scheme against, fostering a "me or you" mentality toward other people.

I'd love to see a show that requires a group of people to work together in order to achieve a necessary goal. They would have to overcome obstacles of any distrust, hostility, ethnic or cultural divisions among them in order to reach the goal.

I saw a video of a chimp study that showed a test setting where chimps had to cooperate in a task to get food. It was set up so that they would not reach the food unless they worked together. They were so competitive that, despite chimp intelligence, they did not figure out that overcoming selfish food grabs would benefit both of them.