subject: The Stranger Society Has Already Entered In Some Cities In China [print this page] It has been reported that China has entered the stranger society, especially in super cities in China such as Beijing and Shanghai, the typical characteristics have appeared. However, this new pattern of society has also brought about shock to the Chinese traditional interpretation of the intimacy between people.
For example, in the public places, people are warned of not leaving the package to the stranger or not drinking or eating anything offered by the stranger. In the kindergarten the children have been educated that they can not accept the stranger's candy or they cannot open the door to the stranger. At the entrance to the bank, the sign billboard warns people of not transferring money to the strange account. Between people, there is a lack of trust and people always harbor the fear to the strange. The lack of trust is one of characteristics of the stranger society.
The lack of trust leads to another characteristic of the stranger society, that is, the indifference to others. In the stranger society, the people always treat the stranger from the suspicion point of view with alerts. Some negative cases in which the receivers of the help, instead of feeling grateful to the helpers, even blackmail them instead have deepened people s psychology that the stranger is not trustworthy and therefore he is not worth of being helped. Both the lack of trust and the indifference have made many people anguished when they recall the harmonious relationship they used to have with the stranger.
The stranger society definitely has increased the cost of the social movement, and also it lets human's mood become negative. On the one hand, people are alert to the stranger anytime anywhere, thinking that this is the best way in which they can protect their own rights and can avoid being injured, on the other hand they complain that the human nature is indifferent, the moral standards have decreased. On the one hand, people tend to blame others for being unsympathetic when seeing the sufferings of the strangers; on the other hand they also remind their own family members and friends of not offending the sleeping dogs. In the stranger society, as people are not familiar with each other, and the strong personnel fluidity may weaken the function that the morality may have in regulating peoples behavior. In the process of changing from the traditional acquaintance society into the stranger society, the issue of restructuring society trusts has been raised for discussion and then solution.
