Discontent, anger, resentment are the words that describe one of China's most outstanding societal problem, and to me, it is undoubtedly the government who has caused this problem of the citizen’s unhappiness with the government. The government is elected by the people for the very reason of providing for the welfare of the people, but contrary to doing so, actions such as unofficial land grabs, unrestrained industrialization have taken place. Migrant workers are denied governmental welfare initiatives, the people are facing low wages, yet the governmental officials revel in luxury. These are the very things the people are angry about, and contrastingly, the things which the government should have prevented.
The flip side - it is undeniable that no government is perfect to the extent that no problems exist in their country. But yet again, what the government can do is to try their best, and I believe when they do so, irregardless of whether improvements are at a fast rate or not, the people will sense it. I dare to attest that if the people understand that the government is making the effort for improvements, they will work with the government to try to resolve the problem. But the government should make the first step, to render assistance to people having low wages by setting up labour unions, to assimilate the migrant workers by radically changing their treatment towards them, to forgo their resentful act of stealing land, all of which are solutions which do not require a genius to come up with, but a brave man to implement.
What the country needs is someone to make a difference, but definitely not in starting a revolution or riot, as many did, with China seeing 180,000 'mass incidents' ranging from labour protests to village riots, a 74,000 increase compared to 2004. It is time for an evolution, not a revolution, for the people of China to grow out of their old painful shells, for the government to restructure themselves make the appropriate legislation (land grabs) to wipe out all chances of insensible act and for China to rise up again with a reformed government leading its way. But before that, the country can start resolving the people's anger by looking at the problem, be honest to themselves about their faults and take a step forward.
The flip side - it is undeniable that no government is perfect to the extent that no problems exist in their country. But yet again, what the government can do is to try their best, and I believe when they do so, irregardless of whether improvements are at a fast rate or not, the people will sense it. I dare to attest that if the people understand that the government is making the effort for improvements, they will work with the government to try to resolve the problem. But the government should make the first step, to render assistance to people having low wages by setting up labour unions, to assimilate the migrant workers by radically changing their treatment towards them, to forgo their resentful act of stealing land, all of which are solutions which do not require a genius to come up with, but a brave man to implement.
What the country needs is someone to make a difference, but definitely not in starting a revolution or riot, as many did, with China seeing 180,000 'mass incidents' ranging from labour protests to village riots, a 74,000 increase compared to 2004. It is time for an evolution, not a revolution, for the people of China to grow out of their old painful shells, for the government to restructure themselves make the appropriate legislation (land grabs) to wipe out all chances of insensible act and for China to rise up again with a reformed government leading its way. But before that, the country can start resolving the people's anger by looking at the problem, be honest to themselves about their faults and take a step forward.
A societal problem America faces would include moral degradation. The people of America are having problems such as an increase rate of drink driving and murder rates due to firearms in school – about 6000 teens killed, as I heard from Nicholas Tey’s presentation. Although the freedom to carry firearms is inextricable to the large death rates caused by guns, I believe other factors include the people’s wrong mindset.
Personally, I believe that if the people were to have a strong-willed mindset of not to resort to violence to end problems, even if the usage of firearms were legalized, such a problem would not have appeared in society. The mind is similar to the headquarters of the body, and controlling the mind would mean controlling the entire body, so I personally believe the government should formulating solutions that deal with changing the mindset of the people. This would be an important step to start a change within the Americans, since abandoning the rule of freedom to carry firearms would be virtually impossible. But this change cannot happen if the both sides, the people and the government do not do their part. The people have to realize the dire situation America is in right now, and the government has to come up with solutions to influence the already distorted minds of the people.
This leads to the next point, the lack of awareness. Evidence show increasing crime rates and usage of firearms, but newspapers only show news on economic downturns and the fall of the economy. This would eventually lead to the lack of awareness of the problem inherent in America, and that people cannot be expected to realise the problem themselves, if the government is not doing their job to tell them about it, thus the government should encourage media to spread the problem. Recently I saw on TIMES magazine an article about a boy named Trayvon Martin, who got killed because of racist issues. Although this article is more centered about the racism issue at hand, I believe a point has been brought up about the wrong usage of firearms in America. In my opinion, articles like such would serve to solve the problem at hand, as more people realises that firearms are used by teens in the wrong way, more Americans would learn to educate their children on the proper usage of firearms in schools and in public places.
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