answer:Yes, we get our “keep up with the Joneses” attitude from our early age and from our parents. Children are told that they need to “try harder” because the other children are doing better than them. School and grade can be an example. The children get the attitude because their parents themselves are bound to the pressure. But the attitude also comes from the children. The children have a need to fit in, to be accepted by friends, or just to feel less “inferior”. Just look at how a child petter for new clothes, new cool gadget… the attitude comes from both sides. I think teaching children to fit in can have some benefit. It can help the child know they need other human and learn to socialize more. But we should limit the teaching to an extent, so that the child doesn’t learn to base everything they do on others.