tailieunhanh - toffler alvin future shock phần 3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'toffler alvin future shock phần 3', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | leaves behind parents and in-laws neighbors service and tradespeople as well as his associates on the job and others. He cuts short his ties. In settling down in the new community he his wife and child must initiate a whole cluster of new and once more temporary relationships. Here is how one young wife a veteran of eleven moves in the past seventeen years describes the process When you live in a neighborhood you watch a series of changes take place. One day a new mailman delivers the mail. A few weeks later the girl at the check-out counter at the supermarket disappears and a new one takes her place. Next thing you know the mechanic at the gas station is replaced. Meanwhile a neighbor moves out next door and a new family moves in. These changes are taking place all the time but they are gradual. When you move you break all these ties at once and you have to start all over again. You have to find a new pediatrician a new dentist a new car mechanic who won t cheat you and you quit all your organizations and start over again. It is the simultaneous rupture of a whole range of existing relationships that makes relocation psychologically taxing for many. The more frequently this cycle repeats itself of course in the life of the individual the shorter the duration of the relationships involved. Among significant sectors of the population this process is now occurring so rapidly that it is drastically altering traditional notions of time with respect to human relationships. At a cocktail party on Frogtown Road the other night reads a story in The New York Times the talk got around to how long those at the party had lived in New Canaan. To nobody s surprise it developed that the couple of longest residence had been there five years. In slower moving times and places five years constituted little more than a breaking-in period for a family moved to a new community. It took that long to be accepted. Today the breaking-in-period must be highly compressed in time. Thus we .