Today I interviewed my post-stranger friend, an Iranian-Canadian in her 30’s. She is an environmental educator and involving volunteers and public events related environmental issues. I am especially interested in the relationship between loneliness and environmental educators. She called the spider at her entrance who residents there for a while, “sweetie!”
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Trust
When I cannot trust people whom I want to close to, I feel lonely.
Also, when I cannot trust myself, I feel more disappoint myself and feel lonely.
Hi To Stranger
Statistics
Scientifically we need to prove the fact by statistic to persuade our audience. Graph is visual and easy for audience to
A loneliness definition
"Loneliness doesn't come from not having people around, but from not being able to communicate things that are important to you."Carl Gustav JungFilm Hiroshima mon amour (1959) by Alain Resnais
Posted by Chaotic Cinema on Saturday, July 8, 2017
From Chaotic Cinema post on their Facebook July 8, 2017
“だからひとりが好き”- so, I like being alone
It might be opposite from promoting to talk to stranger for connecting people. But changing or accepting “it is OK to be alone” by society makes people feel less lonely.
「だからひとりが好き」 (“so, I like being alone” in English translation by me) whose subtitle is 「ひとりは社会を強くする」(“being alone makes society strong” in English translated by me) is the Huffpost Japan’s project. They open Facebook community for everyone to post and share her/his experience or opinion.
Talking to strangers makes you happy – Scientific American
“People who had to strike up conversations on a subway later reported feeling happier than those who didn’t. Christie Nicholson reports.”
Check the audio from the site below:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/talking-to-strangers-makes-you-happy/
People in Multicultural Diversity Regions are Disengaged?
From just casual conversation about “loneliness” about Vancouver with people I met in volunteer places, a several people told me “people are polite and nice in Vancouver, but the relationship does not go further.” They are immigrated in Vancouver, one from Iran and one from America.
Yesterday, when I talked with my neighbor who is also immigrant mentioned about Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, the book written by Robert D. Putnam. Also, the neighbor passed the article from the Vancouver Sun below:
Ethnic diversity's 'inconvenient truths'
My question is that because of the multiculturalism or urban environment affects people be disengaged in their community. I am interested in the comparison with Germany, for example, Berlin where is considered as a multicultural urban city, and Japan, for example, Tokyo a relatively mono-cultural urban city.
I recognized that Vancouver is a young and fast growing city. There are a lot of new comers from all over the world. I imagined that new immigrants put more effort to engage neighbors and their communities no matter how their ethnics are different. Networking with neighbors and communities are important to survive, especially, people decide to live for long-term. Putnam’s study seems a different perspective than my own. I need to look into it, and might find an interesting view.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/008152.html
A risk of isolation – Isolation produces violence?
The below article was found on Facebook. Do we have forgotten communities that receive violence by others in Vancouver?
Human Library
The video below is one of the evidence that a stranger has potentials to engage community.
Even though I volunteered PuSh Festival in 2017, I missed “Human Library”.
Program guide at PuSh 2017: https://pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2017/human-library-3/
Zee Zee Theatre Company: http://zeezeetheatre.ca/2016-2017/human-library/