Too Much Gossip

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Introduction
Do you think that only females are famous for gossiping? The answer is no, both genders gossip; the only difference is women gossip it more than men. Gossiping is defined as a casual conversation about other people that involves details that are not always technically true. There are many types of gossiping, but the two that will be covered are cross-cultural gossiping and behavioral gossiping; gossiping has many advantages and disadvantages, and it can impact humans and societies in different ways it can even lead to a crippling development. Gossiping is a psychological disorder therefore an investigation of the psychology surrounding it will be uncovered.
Cross-Cultural Gossiping
Gossiping is a problem of information distribution, described as a group of individuals connected by a communication network. For gossiping to work every person in the network knows a unique piece of information and has an urge to communicate it to everyone else.
Gossiping is a cross-cultural psychology problem which the entire world suffers from; but there are societies that have a number of people that do not use gossiping in their life, like the Arabian societies, because they are Islamic countries this causes gossiping to be a forbidden act by their religion. While in other societies, such as European societies gossiping is a serious problem.
People started to become addicted to gossiping to an extent where they form groups and hold meetings everyday just for gossiping; for example, we can see in the European societies when an Arabic woman, that wears a veil over her head, arrives to their countries they do not stop gossiping about her veil without taking into consideration her feelings. Moreover, females gather in one of their homes ...

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... understanding the spoken words and being able to speak in proper sentences (Plotnik & Kouyoumdjian, 2013). Therefore, when a person gossips or is tempted to gossip the Limbic system is triggered, allowing all the hatred to be released, and then the Broca and Wernicke areas work side by side allowing people to speak by joining words together and rearranging them to make meaningful sentences.
Conclusion
To sum up, gossiping is a big issue worldwide that all societies are suffering from. It may cause many problems by affecting humans and communities in bad ways. For everything in the world there is a good side to it and a bad, but it the case of gossiping it is mostly bad. Most people nowadays are infected with the disease and addiction of gossiping for many reasons, but the main one is despising people. In the end, do you think that people will stop gossiping one day?

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