▶ Your Answer : A large number of people might argue that, people are kinder these days, since to survive in the modern society, cooperation is important. Contrary to the popular belief, I think people are aloof today than they were in the past for these reasons; the society became more and more competitive, and the economy is getting worse.
First of all, contemporary competitive society makes people not to treat others kindly. It is obvious that, in modern world, people think everyone is competitor, rather than friend. Many schools, or companies these days require their students or employees to surpass others. Naturally, people tend to keep in check of others than handling others smoothly. According to the research conducted by the Seoul National University in 2016, 87 percent of people who worked at a large company responded that they feel their co-workers as a competitor, and tend to get higher evaluation than peers. Also, 65 percent of them argued that, they feel not close to their peers. It means that, modern competitive soceity made people feel they are unfriendly each other and treat themselves unkindly.
Moreover, recent bad economy situtation worldwide made people to treat coldely each another. It is an undeniable fact that when the economy is worse, people get lots of stress since many of them may lose their job, lose their money, or their company has bankrupted. The bad situation may make people feel terrible in every situation, and many conflict may occur. For instance, when I visited the undeveloped country, where everyone was working really hard in harsh situation, I saw lots of conflicts occuring among people, and also there were lots of crimes as I expected. Everyone felt hard to live, they tend to stole foreigners, who had much money , and handled foreigners badly, since they felt inferior than wealthy visitors. As the world economy is getting worse, it is obvious that, people became unkinder.
In conclusion, I firmly believe that, people aren't kinder today than the past times for the reasons I have mentioned above. All in all, the bad environment of the society makes people treat others badly. |