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Individuals can do nothing to change societies. Any new developments can only be brought about by governments and large institutions. How far do you agree or disagree? Nowadays, the question as to whether or not the individuals could be effective in terms of the societies'social changes has turned into a debatable issue. Many experts are of the belief that these responsibilities fall only on the governments and big institutes while others think individuals can act as an asset to raise the level of general understanding of people and also force the governments to implement effective measures in this regard. As far as societies are concerned, only if individuals put the demands for changes in the societies, could the governments and big companies could only act as an suppliery to catch up with the demands. In other words, when people are aware of current issues of a society and frequently ask for some major changes, the government response responds to these demands, and allocates the budget or implements effective measures to bring about changes. Take my country, Iran, as an example, where people mostly run different campaigns to make other people aware of numerous issues. Also there is a well‐known quote that every single change starts from individuals. If a society is interested in any changes, every member they should start from themselves. Taking all these issues into the account, I get the impression that to bring about any change, every individual has the same importance as the respective/related government. What it all comes down to is that the most important step in bringing major changes in societies is being well‐informed informative as an every member of society the societies. I am not much for the idea that one cannot can't do anything on one's own parts.