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In the past, many people had skills such as making their own clothes and doing repairs to things in the house. In many countries, nowadays skills like these are disappearing. Why do you think this change is happening? How far is this situation true in your country?

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In the old days, many common skills like making the clothes and house repairs were managed by people themselves.
However these
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However, these
 common traits are fast becoming specialized or skilled jobs and no longer general public engage in them. There are two main reasons for
this
 change in my opinion.
Firstly making
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Firstly, make
Firstly make
Firstly is making
 clothes and house repairs need some amount of time and specialized training.
Traditionally these
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Traditionally, these
 were passed on from generations to generations in the household. But the increasing
socio economic
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social, economic
social economic
 pressure
have made
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has made
 people to focus more on their specialized area of job or interest.
Moreover
, the move towards the urban areas and the increasing economic and job pressure
have had limited
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limit
 the time left for taking up
such
 activities.
Secondly
, with the increasing urbanization and technological developments complemented with recent trends in fashion, have given birth to a whole new set of industries. A common example is
of
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about
 the clothes, with new fashion trends emerging regularly and the mass production of clothes in the factories
have made
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has made
 making clothes at home disappear. More
importantly these
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importantly, these
 factories
also
 provide job opportunities and offer a variety of
products people
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products, people
 tend to buy it rather than making it at home. The same is
also
 true for home repairs, with increased complex systems like dishwashers, laundry equipment, automatic doors, oven and stoves all need a specialized skill to perform the repair work.
In
addition you
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addition, you
 need to have a lot of tolls at hand, not to mention the details of the equipment. The situation is more or less same in my country,
however in
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however, in
 the
viallges
a community of people smaller than a town
villages
 people still do these tasks themselves, but the trend is changing faster than ever before.
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