The answer is simple: we fear change.

答案很简单：我们害怕改变。

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We resist change, but fear of the unknown can result in clinging to status quo behaviors-no matter how bad they are.

我们抵抗改变，是因为对未知的恐惧可能会让我们更加依附着现状的行为——不管现状是如何的不好。

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Because we rarely change until the pain we feel exceeds our fear of change.

因为若不是所感受的痛苦超过了对变化的恐惧，我们是不会轻易改变的。

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We can't stop change out of fear.

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No one can say for certain how this change will end, but I do know that change is not something that we should fear.

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"Since the beginning, there's been anger, frustration, sadness and fear, but we've been working toward a concentrated effort toward change, " said Eliza Diop, 20, a politics and Africana Studies major who serves on the college student senate and is a resident of the Afrikan Heritage House, which offers programs focused on the African diaspora, according to the college's website.

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