Today, many people do not know their neighbors. Why is this? What can be done about this?
Reasons
- Lack of time due to professional and familial obligation.
- Whatever time is available is used for outings with the families.
- Cultural, ethnic and linguistic barriers create a lack of trust and interaction.
- Lack of facilities that promote interaction: parks, community centers.
- Age differences.
Solutions
- Organizing regular festivals and events at communal level that especially involve children
- Creating communal spaces in the close vicinity of each neighborhood .
Concurrent neighbourhoods carry an air of alienation, stemming from disparate causes such as dearth of time and various barriers, and need judicious remedies to afford these surroundings a friendly facade.
This trend is driven by an overwhelming involvement with professional obligations of a majority of families residing in a colony that leaves them with little time to interact with those living next door. To corroborate, it has been observed across several cities around the world that the majority of urbanites are either engaged in long working shifts that may last up to fourteen hours, or rotational shifts, leaving them exhausted and disinclined towards connecting with anyone beyond their families.
Similarly, diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds are also leading to gaps between co-inhabitants of a locality. Several residents admit that they are unable to meaningfully converse with others living in close proximity of their houses, due to incompatible ways of life, rituals, and even sporting attire, engendering a lack of trust, and thus, a disinterest in knowing each other.
Nevertheless, the panacea for this predicament lies in promoting an active dialogue at the community level by creating venues, and facilities to bring people populating a locale together. This can be done by organizing communal events, like festivals, and occasions of national importance, among others, regularly, and mandating participation of everyone in the area. Moreover, establishing parks and green buffers, close to residential areas, can encourage more outdoor activities,and engagement, among neighbours, thereby bringing them together.
In hindsight, paucity of time, and lack of compatibility due to difference in cultures, of those inhabiting an area, is precipitating absence of contact with each other, but holding events at the neighbourhood level can resolve this issue.
Introduction 1
Concurrent times are witnessing a strange phenomenon, wherein the households occupying a neighbourhood are unfamiliar with those living around them. This can be attributed to several reasons, but there are plausible remedies available on hand.
Introduction 2
It has been observed, today, that the households living in a neighbourhood are unfamiliar with those occupying the space around them. This essay shall elucidate the reasons behind this phenomenon, and suggest some plausible remedies to mitigate this situation.
