Oh Yi Na TJC VIOLENCE AQ

I agree with Passage 1 saying that "If barriers of language or culture keep an immigrant child from fitting in, it can increase the risk that he will become alienated and, given enough triggers, resort to violence." This can be applicable to Singapore as today, the population of almost 4.5 million includes thousands of foreign workers from across Southeast and South Asia. As some of the foreign immigrants are from countries which has only one race, it becomes difficult for them to be working with or living with people of other racial or religion groups. In this case, conflicts may break out and violence maybe be the only solution left. For example, the incident when an Indonesian student studying in Nanyang Technological University stabbed his professor due to his professor failing him for one of his projects. This may be only one out of the many reasons which resulted in the incident as alienation and unfamiliar culture and environment may also be why this Indonesian student resorted to violence. Therefore, language and culture barriers being able to trigger violence is applicable to my society.

In passage 2, Olivia Roy says that "This angry young population is highly deculturalised and individualised. " This is applicable to Singapore as youths nowadays are becoming more rebellious increasing youth crime rates in the society. Most of them usually go with the current flow and do what is popular instead of what is right. This causes many youths to succumb to peer pressure when they commit crimes like vandalism or stealing.  Racial criticisms are also popular among youths today as they hold little or no respect for mostly the minority races. New media aggravates the situation as many youths are able to voice out their negative opinions on personal blogs or networking sites like twitter. Since then, people would be jailed if they verbally or in any other ways insult other racial or religious groups. All these violence-related activies are caused by youths being deculturalised and self-centred resulting in this issue being a concern to my society.