Why are people in modern cities growing less and less friendly?

Guangzhou, China

1. Guangzhou
Guangzhou is full of blood, knives and guns -- all the necessary ingredients for any great gangster flick. Unfortunately, life in Guangzhou doesn’t usually have a happy ending. Even standing around on a sizzling concrete corner during a hot summer afternoon one can feel a slight chill running down their spine.

Shenzhen, China

2. Shenzhen
New York City is considered a “cold city” due to its break-neck speed of life and no-nonsense attitude. Consider Shenzhen the New York of Asia then. The high speed of life narrows the a person's filed of vision to the point where they cannot but think about his/herself only or else fail at getting ahead. Against this backdrop, who has time to be friendly?

Shenyang, China

3. Shenyang
One day in August of 2005, an old beggar appeared under the pier at Heping Bridge near the crossing of Shayang Road in Shenyang City. For four whole days, the beggar, Lau Pingzhi, suffered indescribable pain and was continually ignored by passersby and authorities alike. His pitiful situation and the cold shoulder given to him by his fellow citizens ought to make the people of Shenyang ashamed.

Chengdu, China

4. Chengdu
On a sunny day in June several years ago, a child three years of age starved to death behind his family’s door leaving countless scratch marks while pleading for attention -- nevertheless, no one answered. The background of the case is that her mother was detained for theft and had no one to look after her child. Meanwhile, the negligent neighbors wined and dined themselves to satiety, while just on the other side of door was a crying infant. The Chengdu Police held these neighbors culpable in the case.

 

Luoyang, China

5. Luoyang                                                                                           
Luoyang highway law enforcement officials seized the small motorized cart of an old vegetable farmer. Although this farmer kneeled and begged for mercy, law enforcement officials searched and seized the cart. The old man was no doubt in violation of some public transportation code but the police were also in violation of basic human rights.

Beijing, China

6. Beijing
Usually amiable Beijing is excluded from lists such as this. In fact, Beijing is a place with just as many rude and inconsiderate people as some of the other cities on this list. Add to this attitude the inherent lack of water, the abundance of traffic jams and the expensive cost of living and you get a place where gold-diggers thrive while the common man is doomed to suffer.

Shanghai, China

7. Shanghai
Just like Beijingers, Shanghainese tend to have feelings of arrogance and pride based on their long history and prosperity. Any Shanghainese is reluctant to depart from Shanghai and live too far from home even if only for a short time. This pride, though somewhat grounded in historical accomplishments, forges a deep-rooted isolated character which thinks of itself as superior and directs scorn at outsiders.

 Dongguan, China

8. Dongguan
Dongguan is the result of a sudden enormous injection of outside capital and labor force that caused Dongguan’s meteoric rise. The people in Dongguan are extremely wealthy, but have no sense humility or consciousness of the external factors which brought about their sudden affluence. They are living proof of the saying, “abandon one's benefactor once his help is not needed.”

Jiahe, Hunan, China

9. Jiahe
Jiahe is an exception to all of the other coldest cities. The basic qualification of a cold city is that it treats outsiders as inferior and locals as somehow superior. However, Jiahe in Hunan Province is simply full of mean spirited, cold and calculating characters.

Taipei, China

10. Taipei
One person who grew up on the island described it thusly: “A stream of people, arenas of political and economic power, the spotlight of celebrity and the anxiety of to much information congested together.”

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