"Communication doesn't work" man I felt that.
Most communication situations I have been in turned into confrontations. Even when I asked for directions "people" would yell at me, except for one occasion. It feels like you just can't really have a simple conversation in this forsaken city, always someone has to be "right", and by definition the other has to be "wrong". Once I witnessed a small car accident, one pedestrian asked a passenger if she was alright and the passenger screamed insults at her. I was 7 years old when almost all members of an ethnic minority in the school cornered me because one of them decided me saying "meatballs" was a slur against them. I had known almost nothing about that minority before that, but I think they gave me a pretty good summary :D
I'm not sure if this might be specific to my area, I have been abroad and talked to a few strangers, despite in some cases not speaking any common language. But, I did grow up thinking it's like this everywhere and it might be, I have only been in one foreign city very recently after all.
What's interesting is that this fact doesn't make me feel noticeably depressed. I grew up in this environment, learning to avoid people and not think much about them. This is second nature to me.