Many people believe that today there is a general increase in anti-social behavior and lack of respect for others. What might have caused this? How to improve this problem?

It is unfortunate that in the midst of

vast progress

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the vast progress

in every field of life there is

also

a growth in the anti-social behaviour and people have become less respectful of each other.

This

essay intends to

analyze

consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

analyse

some causes of

this

phenomenon and suggest some ways to ameliorate the situation. Today, we live in an era of technology in which the whole Earth has shrunk and become a global village. Everybody is connected to everybody through telephone lines and the Internet, but the warmth of relationships has taken a back seat. Most people have more than enough wealth, comfort and freedom, but their hearts desire even more. To satisfy their

hearts greed

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hearts, greed

people have become workaholics, and

as a result

have no time for family and friends. People have become selfish, isolated and indifferent. Each person is busy in his own quest for more. To add to it, the youngsters who

are at ease with the new technology think

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think at ease with the new technology

are at ease with the new technology thought

are at ease with the new technology think

that the elderly are good for nothing and

that is

why they don’t respect them. The changing family structure is another big cause of

this

phenomenon. Earlier, people lived in joint families and the grandparents were there to supervise the children. Now there are nuclear families in which both parents go out to work, and children are left unattended in the hands of pervasive media like the TV and the Internet. No one monitors what they watch and they see the programs full of violence and crime, which makes them anti social. The pressure of consumerist society and peers

also

breeds anti social behaviour. To add to it, the values of traditional culture are being lost and people are following the global culture, which is

also

considered anti social by the orthodox elderly. There are many solutions to

this

problem.

To begin

with, people have to learn to strike a balance between work and family life. Government should

also

fix the maximum hours a worker can work per

week so

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week, so

that exploitation is not there in the job market. People should revert back to the old joint family system.

This

would be in the benefit of all. The children would learn moral values and the elderly would be well looked after. Negative effects of excessive consumerism should be taught to the people. Media can play a big role in highlighting the good points of the traditional and the western culture so that the people can adopt good social values. Neighbourhood associations should be set up to connect people to each other. Summing up, anti social behaviour and mutual lack of respect in today’s times can be dealt with by taking simple measures, and individuals and governments should collectively take these steps.