What issues do you think Singaporean youths would really speak out for? Give at least 3 issues and explain why you think so?
There are many issues that Singaporean youths would actually speak out for, depending on whether or not they wish to. Three issues would be environmental problems, technology matters and for their own rights (eg freedom of speech).
Firstly, environmental problems such as littering is seen in our daily lives. Youths initiate projects in other to improve the situation. An example would be having a duty roster in class where everyone would play a part in keeping our surroundings clean. Moreover, there is an annual "Clean and Green" week where the entire school population works together to participate in events such as Beach Cleaning etc. Debates revolving around Global warming (that is currently happening around the entire world) are also held intra-school and youths will get to voice out their opinions on how they can make the Earth a better place to live in (eg. no littering, reduce pollution by taking bus instead of a car).
Secondly, I feel that youths are very actively involved in helping to shape technology. For example, an apple ipod. Before there was actually apple ipod, there was normal mp3, plain boring ones. Mundane colour, big and bulky, little functions. But now, there are mini ones (size of fifty cents coin -- ipod shuffle), colourful ones (rainbow colour) and functions such as recording, downloading clips and even videos. All this is only possible with the feedbacks from the youths, who are the main consumer of the ipod. Therefore, I conclude that youths actually voice out their opinions with regards to technology, thus causing it to improve by leaps and bounds within a short period of time.
Lastly, youths are geared towards benefits which gives them the drive to fight for their wants. An example would be in schools. There used to be a six-day week where youths are required to go back to school on Saturday for enrichment programmes/CCA etc. However, after hearing the voices of the youths, MOE made adjustments to the timings to allow us to have a five day week!
In conclusion, I feel that there are many outspoken youths that should continue to contribute feedback to the society in order to progress as a nation.
xingjie- i also agree that youths would really speak for environmental problems however the number of such youths is minimal. most singaporean youths are nonchalent about such world/local issues. only a few show a genuine interest to such issues
ReplyDeletei agree with lynn as well on all the issues that she has covered but somehow i feel that youths are very inclined to doing social work. Thus, they can speak more on social work experiences.
ReplyDeleteP.S Slimeball, nonchalant not nonchalent!
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ReplyDeletei disagree that youths initiate projects in order to improve the situations. in the examples mentioned such as duty roster and beach cleaning excercise, most of them are initiated by teachers and schools instead of youths. in addition, the five-day work week implemented by the government was not initiated by youths either.
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i agree to the part where youths speak out for the benefit of themselves to improve their welfare. they also want to be heard of their opinions and thoughts thus showing that we do have the freedom of speech to speak up for ourselves. regardind the environment part, i dont quite agree that students nowadays initiate those programmes as most are innitiated by the schools, moreover, in reality, not many of us actually are passionate about conserving the environment(Eg:beach cleaning) thus, does not apply to all.
ReplyDeleteleling and yinan, good point in rebutting by differentiating the source of initiative from the people involved.
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