Why is it "less" obvious, not "more" obvious....? ~This is a paragraph Individualistic Americans naturally see themselves as being in competition with others. Competitiveness pervades the society. It is obvious in the attention given to athletic evens and to star athletes, who are praised for being "real competitors." It is also obvious in schools and extracurricular activities for children, where games and contests are assumed to be desirable and beneficial. <<<Competitiveness is less obvious>>> when it is in the mids of people who are persistently comparing themselves with others: who is faster, smarter, richer, better-looking; whose children are the most successful; whose husband is the best provider or the best cook or the best lover; which salesperson sold the most during the past quarter; who earned his first million dollars at the earliest age; and so on. People who are competing with others are essentially alone, trying to maintain their superiority and, implicitly, their separateness from others.I don't know why it was deleted....!!! :O It was..... >>"Competitiveness is less obvious"