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He also punched, slapped and dragged her by the hair. It was found that at least seven people walked past the prolonged assault at Rumours Beach Club at Sentosa, but did not intervene. That excludes the staff of the beach club.\u00a0A 40-year-old man was seen assaulting a 23-year-old man on the Downtown Line MRT. (Photo source: The Straits Times)On 23 May 2021, a 40-year-old man was seen brutally beating up another man who was curled up on the ground on a train. In the video, at least two passengers can be seen just watching by the sidelines instead of helping the victim.\u00a0If it seems the world has become increasingly woke, this conflicting dissonance in being perfervid one minute, and passive the next fails to make sense.\u00a0\u2018Woke digital culture\u2019 online vs \u2018walking dead culture\u2019 offline\u201cWake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!\u201d, Jamaican political activist Marcus Garvey called on all Black citizens. (Photo source: HISTORY)The concept of \u2018wokeness\u2019, defined by Cambridge Dictionary as \u201ca state of being aware, especially to social problems, such as racism and inequality\u201d, in other words being alert to societal injustice,\u00a0 was \u201cco-opted\u201d from the impassioned activism of Black communities. According to this report, \u201cstay woke\u201d became the cautionary \u201cwatchword of Black Lives Matter activists on the streets\u201d, after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson in the US, in 2014.\u00a0But the first sign of \u2018wokeness\u2019 did not just begin in the 2010s, but goes all the way back to the early 1900s. It started as a call by Jamaican philosopher and social activist Marcus Garvey for Blacks to \u2018become more socially and politically conscious\u2019. \u201cWake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!\u201d, he wrote in a collection of literature. Blues musician Lead Belly had advised in a song that \u201ceverybody be a little careful, best stay woke [and] keep their eyes open&#8221;. (Photo source: New Orleans Jazz Museum\/Twitter)It was only popularised and transformed into the ubiquitous term \u2018woke\u2019 when Blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, whose stage name was Lead Belly, sang \u2018stay woke\u2019 in the lyrics of Scottsboro Boys, in 1938. The song was in a revolt against the nine black teenagers who were accused of raping two white girls in 1931 in Scottsboro, Arkansas. All of them were sentenced to death, except one who was imprisoned for life.\u00a0 (Photo source: HISTORY)Fast forward to 2012 \u2013 and the term has become fully awakened and entered mainstream language. Staying true to its roots and carrying on the tradition, it is about \u2018social justice and equality activism\u2019 for Black lives. On 26 February, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a neighbourhood watch White man, 29-year-old George Zimmerman, in Sanford, Florida. Mr Zimmerman called in to the police to report a \u2018suspicious person\u2019. He was told not to approach the vehicle that Mr Martin was in, but when the latter got out and started leaving, Mr Zimmerman followed and fatally shot the teenager. However on 13 July 2013, Mr Zimmerman was found not guilty by a six-women jury.\u00a0Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Florida. The latter was found not guilty. (Photo source: CNN)There was a national uproar, and #staywoke gained traction after this incident. But it was only one year after Mr Zimmerman was found not guilty that the phrase \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 became a slogan of power for the Black community, when Michael Brown was killed in 2014 by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. A street protest calling for justice for Michael Brown who was fatally shot by a policeman. (Photo source: ABC News)That year alone, Twitter found that the word \u2018woke\u2019 was tweeted 30 million times. Finally in 2017, the word was added into the dictionary as an adjective. Hashtag #staywoke trended highly in 2014, following the death of Michael Brown. (Photo source: Vox)A more recent case was the petition for Justice for George Floyd that garnered 20 million signatures. It was the largest petition ever signed. It reflected the depth of how many people wanted the conviction of the policeman who killed George Floyd, which online users had deemed was racially motivated.\u00a0Now, would the opposite of \u2018woke\u2019 be \u2018dead\u2019, figuratively speaking? The phrase \u2018walking dead\u2019 is not unfamiliar because of the AMC Networks hit show of the same name. In the show, the walking dead are zombies. But in society, one of the meanings of the term is when someone sees a person in need of help in public, but does not offer assistance. Specifically, Cambridge dictionary defines it as \u201ca person who is standing near and watching something that is happening but is not taking part in it.\u201d\u2019 This is also known as the \u2018bystander effect\u2019, which was first \u201cdiscovered by psychologists Bibb Latan\u00e9 and John Darley following the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder in New York City.\u201dThe victim was stabbed to death outside her apartment, but none of the 38 people who knew of the incident intervened. According to psychologists, the neighbours\u2019 response was \u201cgenerally half-hearted\u201d. Some did call the police, but one husband was stopped by his wife from doing so, because she believed someone else would have done it already. When Kitty Genovese was murdered in New York City in 1964, 38 people did not help her. (Photo source: Refinery29)Messrs Latan\u00e9 and Darley had conducted experiments to understand the motivations behind this \u2018walking dead\u2019 effect. There were two factors: One is the \u201cdiffusion of responsibility\u201d, where if \u201cmany others (are) present, the responsibility is shared throughout the group, and no one feels that it&#8217;s down to them to do anything\u201d; The other is \u201cour desire to conform and follow the actions of others.\u201d If no one does anything, maybe the situation does not warrant help. As put by the psychologists, \u201cemergency situations are often unclear or chaotic, and we tend to look to others to decide on the correct action \u2013 or inaction.\u201d\u00a0Why the discrepancy between human behaviours in these two domains?When asked about this contradictory culture in society, where a \u2018woke digital\u2019 culture co-exists with a \u2018walking dead\u2019 culture, Associate Professor of Sociology Tan Ern Ser from the National University of Singapore, echoes the factors: \u201cPeople may not take action [because] they do not feel personally responsible since there are other bystanders around [and therefore] unlikely to be held accountable for inaction,\u201d he explains.A second reason, according to psychiatrist Ang Yong Guan, who runs a clinic in Singapore, is the hassle and inconvenience of getting involved, which \u201crequires too much time and energy that many may not have the time to do it.\u201d\u00a0He says, \u201cAs a society, people are wary of getting involved with social justice issues for fear of the amount of work and time required and the responsibilities these activities entail.\u201d\u00a0For example, if a person intervenes in a fight, he or she would have to give a statement to the police, possibly appear in court to testify, or perhaps visit the hospital to treat injuries. In that sense, people would rather save themselves the trouble.\u00a0The third reason is quite practical, as one may feel they are not physically able to stop the assailant. As Associate Professor Tan says, \u201cThey feel that they are not competent enough to help [and] do not have the means to offer help.\u201d He adds that while one \u201ccould be motivated by compassion to be an \u2018activist\u2019, [one may] rationalise that [they] can\u2019t do much about the problem anyway.\u201d Thus, they may choose other less inconvenient ways to \u2018help\u2019, such as videoing the attack, or calling the police.(Photo source: LinkedIN)When it comes to involvement online, however, the behaviour is low-risk and low-cost.\u00a0As Dr Ang asserts, \u201cGiving comments online and championing the woke culture does not require the much-needed effort and time to do real activities related to their cause \u2013 views online are free and can be done [at] any time of the day.\u201d\u00a0He adds that being \u201cpart of the \u2018woke digital culture\u2019&#8230;is fashionable [when you] identify [yourself] with other like-minded members.\u201d\u00a0Assoc Prof Tan also opines, \u201cIt is far easier to shoot down views or positions, which we consider harmful or unjust, while sitting behind a keyboard.\u201d Words spoken behind a screen and an alias, after all, hold little accountability, and social media users rarely face consequences as they hide behind billions of comments.\u00a0Convenience or compassion?With the boom of social media, news spreads like wildfire, and voices proclaim like trumpets. Woke culture is hailed as activism and a passionate advocate for change, However, the discrepancy between human behaviour online and offline has raised the question of whether society has just been given a convenient platform to express its views, rather than a rise in compassion.\u00a0Dr Ang thinks this may be the case, because \u201csocial media is a platform where many people wear a social mask, not indicative of their true selves.\u201d In reality, he believes that society still remains \u201clukewarm and apathetic\u201d.\u00a0He explains why that is the reason: \u201cSubscribing to the woke culture and awakening to certain cultural or socio-political issues online is not matched by the same fervour on the ground.\u201d\u00a0Assoc Prof Tan agrees, as he argues that \u201cit is very easy to be desensitised to the problems we are exposed to in our everyday life, say, at street corners or subway stations.\u201dWoke online, but walking dead offline. (Photo source: WesternSlopeNow.com)The other reason why society is a \u2018woke digital\u2019 culture online but a \u2018walking dead\u2019 culture offline is because it is easier to talk than to actually act. Assoc Prof Tan illustrates an example: \u201c[In a] town hall meeting, we may offer all kinds of good suggestions on how to deal with municipal problems. But when asked to volunteer to contribute [or to solve] a problem, we may be more [reluctant] about\u00a0 getting involved to lead or help in implementing our suggestions.\u201d\u00a0Dr Ang has observed a similar situation: \u201cMany have become keyboard warriors ever ready to express their views online but not ready to roll up their sleeves to offer real help on the ground.\u201d He further elaborates that actions requiring less hassle might be undertaken, such as donating to a cause. But beyond that, they would rather \u201cstay clear of any groundwork to champion a cause, or do something for the victims or the underprivileged citizens.\u201d\u00a0Many worthy causes have sprung out of woke culture, such as #BlackLivesMatter and the #MeToo movement. There is little doubt that woke digital culture has had a positive impact on and increased awareness about\u00a0 many injustices and social issues. That being said, action is always louder than words, and if as a society, people do not practise what they preach, being woke loses all its potency. 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