ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
Strengthen Tolerance and Unity Among Malaysians
The definition of tolerance is the ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinion or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with which as stated in dictionary.com. While unity defines as the state of being united or joined as a whole. According to the article title Strengthen Tolerance and Unity Among Malaysians written by Lokman Mansor, there are three points that Malaysians need to improve on. I agree with the statement where there are three important issues that need to be resolved.
First issue that need to be resolved is tolerance and unity among Malaysians of various races must be further strengthened. Malaysia is well-known as a multi racial county
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One of the common problem in Malaysia is lack of empathy towards human suffering. Nowadays, cases of bullying have been filling the news and social media. In her article “Bullied, murdered UPNM naval cadet: Five students charged with murder,” Shanti Gunaratnam explains:
Zulfarhan, 21, a third year students died on June 1 at 9pm at the Serdang Hospital, allegedly due to bullying. According to the reports, Zulfarhan was brought to the hospital with severe injuries, including burns on his body, believed to be from having a steam iron passed onto his chest, hands and feet.
Bullying can be express in different ways and level. As a human, we must have sympathy. Sympathy is defined as feeling of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune which as stated in oxforddictionary.com. Every people needs to feel sympathy to overcome the problem of human suffering. The importance of sympathy among Malaysians can motivates us to comfort those who suffer. When you have someone show you sympathy it makes you feels goods and it makes you know that they valued how you felt. So, it helps the person that in pain becoming more positive and happiest person in the world. In fact, sympathy is so important to the future of our country to avoid human suffering and to live happily and peacefully with each
Pema Chodron formerly said, “Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” People need to understand what people share is what makes everybody human. If they do not understand what makes us human than they will not know how to feel sympathy or compassion. If everybody thinks about it, we all go through some of the same situations. Everybody experiences, relationships, they may lose someone in their life, people make choices everyday, people may be obliged to use their flight or fight skills in survival, they might have to think about their morals when doing something, and everybody most definitely goes through different kinds of emotions every single day.
In recent times, we have come to recognize that the rate of bullying across Australia has escalated through the roof, with more children targeted and abused. Just last month a 13- year-old teenage girl was tortured, bashed, and stabbed in an hours-long ordeal, with videos posted to social media by three girls. The three girls acted out of fear and
Sympathy for All Bram Stoker says, “Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.” Sympathy is feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. In Truman Capote's novel, he shows sympathy towards Nancy Clutter and Perry Smith. Truman Capote reveals many fantastic traits of Nancy to create sympathy for her when she is killed.
Bullies are usually stronger and victims are usually perceived as weaker and unable to protect themselves.” (Masterson,1997) Bullying expands in many aspects of everyday life; from schoolchildren and teenagers, to adults , working environments and even spouses and family members. Considering that the first signs of bullying appear among schoolchildren, we should examine it in its infancy, that is, bullying in early years and school life, which in turn becomes with the passage of years violence and in some cases even crime. As far as bullying at school is concerned, “one definition is that a student is being bullied or victimized, when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time , to negative actions on the part of one or more other students.”
Bullying is an undesirable, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves actual disparity of power. According to Megan Brooks bullying is a serious public health problems, with significant short-and long-term psychological consequences for the child who is bullied and the child who is the bully. This only tells us that bullying can lead to difficulty that a certain children may experience and will have either short or long term problem. “Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents, but it has lasting, negative consequences and cannot simply be ignored.” Committee chair Frederick Rivera, MD.
This article explains what is bullying exactly. Bullying is any form of psychological, verbal, or physical abuse that occurs repeatedly among schoolchildren over a period. Statistically, the dominant type of violence is emotional and occurs mostly in the classroom and courtyard of schools. Bullying is a kind of torture, methodical and systematic, in which the aggressor sums up the victim, often with silence, indifference or complicity of other comrades. The author explains some characteristic and consequences of bullying.
Recently, bullying has been becoming more and more of an issue. It’s gotten so bad that one out of four kids deal with it. Currently, bullying is worldwide. There’s no place where it began, because it’s pretty much human nature. Many people are trying to stop it, whether by using zero-tolerance policies, small punishments, and more, however, nothing has worked so far.
The Harsher Consequences of Face to Face Bullying Meet Rochelle, a previous student who told her best friend something very personal. Her best friend told everyone and kids from her school started bullying her. They would call her names and it came to the point where she stopped going to school, stopped eating, had to go to the hospital because she purposely cracked her head open on the sidewalk, and tried to hang herself. (“Stories from People Just Like You”, 22) Just like Rochelle, children all over the world get bullied face to face and never say anything about it. When faced with bullying, students are intimidated to go to school and feel unsafe outside of school, so they detach themselves from the world.
Bullying can happen mostly in schools bullying provides a vent for the pent-up feelings of anger and distress. The tools of bullying include: hitting, hurting, damaging belongings, bribery, ridicule, threats, shouting, sarcasm, withholding food, liberty, money etc, bully will be as deeply unhappy as the person he/ she is bullying, and both children will need assistance to deal with their issues. Children will need Unconditional love, a positive approach to behaviour, an encouragement of learning a well defined set of appropriate boundaries, healthy living environments, friendly open communication, trust and
Bullying has been named an “emerging public health issue requiring intervention” (Ansary, Elias, Greene, & Green, 2015, p. 27). As a major problem in schools around the world, the issue of bullying must be addressed in order to keep students physically and emotionally safe. The act of bullying not only affects the well-being of the person being targeted, but it also affects the rest of the school community too. It can be difficult for teachers, principals, and superintendents to make an ethical decision about what to do when bullying occurs because there are misunderstandings about what bullying is, leading to the improper identification of situations.
Bullying and Cyber bullying: History, Statistics, Law, Prevention and Analysis By: Richard Donegan Abstract: Based on this article issue my scope will be mention about the cyber bullying or bullying that arises in the Malaysia among the secondary school student and also the university student. Bullying has been established in American society since the establishment of the country. Coming from capitalism economic and competitive social hierarchies, bullying is still a relevant issue throughout the year.
Bullying in Schools What seems fun and harmless for some students, is painful and degrading to others. Bullying has been a critical issue around schools, but before it was not as dangerous and know as it is now. These do not means bullying was not happening, it means it was not taken into consideration by parents or teachers. They thought it was just peer pressure or a kids game, and sooner or later the kids would be friends again. At one point, bullies think it’s normal to be mean and abusive to other students.
However, the same cannot be said for the past few decades. This is because of selfish politicians playing the controversial “race card” to gain support from a particular race. These selfish actions have worsened the relationships between races and affected the harmony that was once our nation’s pride and joy. Thus, it is our role as Malaysians to find new ways of promoting racial harmony, because honestly, who would want to live in a country where everyone hates each other?
Bullying Can Be Prevented Bullying is a form of violence to pick on victims because they are different from their bullies, have insecurity/jealousy or home problems. The hate towards their victim has something to do with the victim having an unusual gift or being intelligent the bullies has yet to become. It is important that this behavior should be prevented or it will become worse. Bullying is one of the main issues public and private schools have to face on a day-to-day basis. When the bully takes it too far, the victim snaps and retaliates by fighting him/her back physically or verbally.
Bullying is defined as repeated oppression, physical or psychological of a less powerful individual by a more powerful individual, people or group. It consists of three main types of abuse which are physical, verbal and emotional. Bullying in schools is a common and worldwide spread problem that can have critical and negative implications on the general school climate as well as on the right of students to study in a safe and secure environment without fear. Many people believe that bullying is part of life, happens in all schools and so it’s not an issue to worry about and that it lets individuals know what life is all about as it toughens them but in reality bullying is a detrimental problem that affects most school going children and teenagers physically, emotionally and socially.