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What is real cannot be fake, right? Well, how can a community made of real people become labeled as being "counterfeit?" John McKnight (1996), author of "The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits", explained his thoughts of how a community becomes careless to what is going on right next door and around them. McKnight discusses the social issues of competent communities being taken over by migrating social services agencies whom counsel clients for such things as bereavement. I too agree with McKnight's question of "what happened to family, friends, and community during such a time as bereavement?" I will analyze McKnight's view in "The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits" to see has America become culturally dispirited?

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