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1、One’saCrowdPublished:February4,2012MOREpeoplelivealonenowthanatanyothertimeinhistory.InprosperousAmericancities—Atlanta,Denver,Seattle,SanFranciscoandMinneapolis—40percentormoreofallhouseholdscontainasingleoccupant.InManhattanandinWashington,nearlyoneintwohouseholdsareoccupiedbyasingleperson.
2、MultimediaGraphicSoloinAmericaGraphicMoreonTheirOwnHere,andEvenMoreAbroadInteractiveMapPercentageofHouseholdsWithOnlyOneOccupantByinternationalstandards,thesenumbersaresurprising—surprisinglylow.InParis,thecityoflovers,morethanhalfofallhouseholdscontainsinglepeople,andinsocialistStockholm,the
3、ratetops60percent.Thedecisiontolivealoneiscommonindiversecultureswheneveritiseconomicallyfeasible.AlthoughAmericanspridethemselvesontheirself-relianceandcultureofindividualism,Germany,FranceandBritainhaveagreaterproportionofone-personhouseholdsthantheUnitedStates,asdoesJapan.Threeofthenations
4、withthefastest-growingpopulationsofsinglepeople—China,IndiaandBrazil—arealsoamongthosewiththefastestgrowingeconomies.Themerethoughtoflivingaloneoncesparkedanxiety,dreadandvisionsofloneliness.Butthoseimagesaredated.Nowthemostprivilegedpeopleonearthusetheirresourcestoseparatefromoneanother,tobu
5、yprivacyandpersonalspace.Livingalonecomportswithmodernvalues.Itpromotesfreedom,personalcontrolandself-realization—allprizedaspectsofcontemporarylife.Itislessfeared,too,forthecrucialreasonthatlivingalonenolongersuggestsanisolatedorless-sociallife.Afterinterviewingmorethan300singletons(mytermfo
6、rpeoplewholivealone)duringnearlyadecadeofresearch,I’veconcludedthatlivingaloneseemstoencouragemore,notless,socialinteraction.Paradoxically,ourspecies,solongdefinedbygroupsandbythenuclearfamily,hasbeenabletoembarkonthisexperimentinsololivingbecauseglobalsocietieshavebecomesointerdependent.Dyna
7、micmarkets,flourishingcitiesandopencommunicationssystemsmakemodernautonomymoreappealing;theygiveusthecapacitytolivealonebuttoengagewithotherswhenandhowwewanttoandonourownterms.Infact,livingalonecanmakeiteasiertobesocial,becausesinglepeoplehav
