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Numerous people nowadays believe that people are still friendly compared
to the past. However, it is not true. Even myself do not care about others. Therefore, the
topic of in the past, people were friendly than today, I agree for those two
main reasons.
To begin with, in the past, people had a lot of communication. However,
nowadays, the advent of technology have interrupted our relationships. The
reason is that people are having less communication and the need of face-to-face
communication became useless. For example, I will compare myself and my young
cousin. When I was young, I did not have smartphone and the Internet was not as
common as it is today. Therefore, I always played outside with my neighbors and
we used to eat dinner at each other’s house. Everyone in the neighborhood was
friend and at the same time, family. However, in the case of my cousin, he grew
up in the fast-changing world. He had a smartphone when he was in an elementary
school. My cousin seldomly played with his friends outside, instead he just stayed
at home and played with his smartphone. In fact, he said to me that he never
had a conversation with his neighbors. He was completely of ignorance to his
neighbors. If it were not for the smartphones, my cousin would have played with
his neighbors and be friendly to them instead of not having a conversation at
all.
On top of that, people in the past helped each other. In the past, people
scarcely had food to share with family. Therefore, they helped each other by sharing
food through feasts. For example, I will give an example of my grandmother. My
grandmother used to live in the countryside of Japan. Every winter, my grandmother’s
neighborhood held a feast. The purpose was to share food and successfully survive
through the cold winter. By helping each other, neighbors strengthened their relationships.
However, in the current world, people are merely focusing on one’s own way. They
do not have time to care about others because their life is already busy enough.
This tendency makes people to be less friendly to other people compared to the
past.
Even though, people still believe that friendliness
is still around, it is not always true. For these reasons above, I believe that
people in the past is more friendly than people today.
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