The significant rises of the population, fast paced life, crime rate and dependency on technology in the urban areas make more people become unacquainted and unfriendly to their neighbours. However, there are measures that can be taken to alleviate this issue.
In today’s technology dependent era, people are mostly busy with their own work. Major streets in the cities are filled with busy people walking fast to reach their office or business place. They are even busy talking to their office colleagues and family members over the phone. After they return home late evening, they watch television, use computer and the Internet or spend time with family members. They scarcely have any time to socialise with neighbours. In some scenarios, people do not even know who live next door in city areas. These are the everyday scenarios in the cities where social interactions could be rarely seen as individuals have no time to socialise and much focused on their own work or personal interests.
Again, the rampant acceleration of crimes in the urban community makes individual become unnecessarily cautious and suspicious about other people, especially with the people they meet for the very first time. Even trusting their own neighbourhood would be tough for them as they are in constant fear of being harmed. As a result inhabitants of cities tend to become isolated as they are afraid to mingle because of undeveloped acquaintance. Unlike rural areas, where comparatively fewer people live together, city areas are highly populated and it is not unlikely that several thousands of people live in a block. Maintaining social relationship with all of them is this thus quite impossible.
On the other hand, considering possible measures to improve a sense of community in the neighbourhood community officials must organise programmes regularly to encourage camaraderie. Secondly, building more parks, social gathering places, community centres and children’s playground in the community could be a good measure to let people socialise and know each other. This is also helpful for meeting friends, bonding with family and neighbours. As a result, people living in the community would develop a sense of friendship. Positive news and events among community members should be highlighted in media to eradicate the fear people have about unknown people. Finally, organising different community groups to help people find others with same interest and to share common passions is a very effective measure to help people enhance their neighbouring bonds and relationship in my opinion.
To sum it up, city life and overwhelming population should not be hindrances to our sense of community and our relationship with our neighbours. It would be nicer for the community to develop a friendly environment to create a better place to live in with all the neighbours.
The significant rises of the population,
fast
paced life, crime rate and dependency on technology in the urban
areas
make
more
people
become unacquainted and
unfriendly
to their
neighbours
.
However
, there are
measures
that can
be taken
to alleviate this issue.
In
today
’s technology dependent era,
people
are
mostly
busy with their
own
work. Major streets in the
cities
are filled
with busy
people
walking
fast
to reach their office or business place. They are even busy talking to their office colleagues and family members over the phone. After they return home late evening, they
watch
television,
use
computer and the Internet or spend
time
with family members. They
scarcely
have any
time
to
socialise
with
neighbours
. In
some
scenarios,
people
do not even know who
live
next
door in city
areas
. These are the everyday scenarios in the
cities
where social interactions could be rarely
seen
as individuals have no
time
to
socialise
and much focused on their
own
work or personal interests.
Again, the rampant acceleration of crimes in the urban
community
makes
individual become
unnecessarily
cautious and suspicious about
other
people
,
especially
with the
people
they
meet
for the
very
first
time
. Even trusting their
own
neighbourhood
would be tough for them as they are in constant fear of
being harmed
.
As a result
inhabitants of
cities
tend to become isolated as they are afraid to mingle
because
of undeveloped acquaintance. Unlike rural
areas
, where
comparatively
fewer
people
live
together, city
areas
are
highly
populated and it is not unlikely that several thousands of
people
live
in a block. Maintaining social relationship with all of them is this
thus
quite impossible.
On the
other
hand, considering possible
measures
to
improve
a sense of
community
in the
neighbourhood
community
officials
must
organise
programmes
regularly
to encourage camaraderie.
Secondly
, building more parks, social gathering places,
community
centres
and children’s playground in the
community
could be a
good
measure
to
let
people
socialise
and know each
other
. This is
also
helpful for meeting friends, bonding with family and
neighbours
.
As a result
,
people
living in the
community
would develop a sense of friendship.
Positive
news and
events
among
community
members should
be highlighted
in media to eradicate the fear
people
have about unknown
people
.
Finally
,
organising
different
community
groups to
help
people
find others with same interest and to share common passions is a
very
effective
measure
to
help
people
enhance their
neighbouring
bonds and relationship in my opinion.
To sum it up, city life and overwhelming population should not be hindrances to our sense of
community
and our relationship with our
neighbours
. It would be nicer for the
community
to develop a friendly environment to create a better place to
live
in with all the
neighbours
.