Social Apathy In Society Around The World

In the Maslow 's hierarchy of needs, the third level of human needs is interpersonal and involves a sense of belonging and acceptance among their social groups. Apathy is the lack of interest, concern and emotion, which people ignore the large numbers of social, political, environmental, economic and moral problems. I agree that social apathy is the issue of the existence in society around the world. Social apathy includes interpersonal relations, government corruption and social cohesion problems across the world, especially developing countries.

First of all, the impact of interpersonal relations exists in the social apathy. The development of economic growth and technology, developing country’s social apathy more than developed country, especially such as China. According to The Economist (2013) writes that “In 2011 a toddler known as Yue Yue was knocked down by two different vehicles on a busy street in Foshan, a booming city in Guangdong province in southern China”. The rapid development of economic and social structure change individual moral value, such as their rights, obligations and the degree of social participation. In the present, many Chinese people concentrate their individual benefit increasingly and ignore interpersonal relationship or social issues, because the change of social structure and an environment. For example, tiger mother demands her children have a high level of achievement. Tiger mother adopts the high expectation for education,