11. Comparison - Similarities www.littlespeck.com/content/people/CTrendsPeople-080315.htm Los Angeles 1992 Singapore 2009 Employment was subjective; African-Americans felt that the Asian had all the jobs, making it more difficult to find employment Local Chinese resent the arrival of large scale Chinese Immigrants who are given jobs, making it difficult to find employment. African-Americans felt like they were the minority when they actually have a part of the US Local share a common feeling that the local population is slowly becoming a minority in its own country as an overwhelming number of foreigners arrives
12. Comparison - Differences www.littlespeck.com/content/people/CTrendsPeople-080315.htm Los Angeles 1992 Singapore 2009 In the riots, out of 10, 000 people who were arrested, 42% were African-Americans, while only 9% were white. This is not proportionate to the racial make up if the state Everybody is subjected to the same law regardless of their race The public was not well educated on the racial harmony and the importance of it Primary and secondary school students celebrate racial harmony day on 20 th July every year Freedom of speech is allowed Government enforces laws that prevent racial discrimination such as, racist bloggers being arrested and jailed
Hi everyone, my name is Adrian and I will be touching on PART C. The team and I came up with a few solutions to prevent the imagined 2061 from happening with relations to the LA Riots in the 1990s Firstly, to prevent racial riots or gang-joining, positive racial harmony values should be cultivated from young, probably through the schools or the community. This way, the children will grow up to understand what is good and what is bad for them. For the second point, we think that all the races itself, should get an equal opportunity when it comes to selection of jobs. It should be based on merits and not colours of our skin. Next, speaking of English bonds the community together as everyone will understand what each other are saying. No one feel left out Imagine yourself as a Malay, and you are with a group of Chinese friends. If they were to speak Mandarin all the time, you would probably feel they are not part of the group.
With reference from Rodney King’s story, we believe that by having a proportionate mix of races and genders will aid in the situation back then. Let’s imagine, if back then, out of the 4 police officers that rodney king met, 2 were black and 2 were white, would u think the instances would have happened? Probably not. Inter racial marriages can be encouraged as to bond the community better. People usually join gang of their own races, such as chinese will join the chinese and malays will join the malays. So, if inter racial marriges were encouraged and you are a product of it, will be support either side? Once again, Probably not. Through work ethic courses, people get to interact with other races and therefore, also helps to prevent ricial riots. This is similar to the previous instances because through work, adults learn the positive values and attitude, and therefore, pass on to the younger generations.
To prevent the younger generations joining gang in 2061, we believe that by imposing an extremely heavy punishment will make the youth think twice before joining. If the stakes are high, the teenagers will really consider the pros and cons before doing anything silly. The freedom to choose their second language makes the people learn more about other faces. This way, not only do they learn from one another, they are also directly “forced” to speak in English as 2 Chinese may not speak in mandarin often. Age, gender and Racial profiling should be refrained from the police force as it builds up a lot of tension in the society. If the teenagers are stopped at the checkpoint all the time, it makes them want to join the gang even more. Because they may want to retaliate or something similar. Racial harmony activities will aid the public in understanding the other races. Not only that, people get to interact with people from different age, race and religion The television should play shows of different language with english subtitles as it makes 1 understand and appreciate other culture more. So when one were to see another races, it wouldn’t unfamiliar to them.
Now, I will move to to some of the problems that we may face in implementing our proposed measures.
Classes in schools are to encourage recial harmy but we cannot eliminate the factor of them skipping classes. If bosses were to hire everyone in the society, we would achieve racial harmony status but there may be some bosses who are very strong on having their own races in the company. We have been empkhasing on speaking good english. But parents of the older generations may speak to their children in their mother tongue. We did mention earlier that the policeforce should have a proportionate mix of races however, some people of a certain race may not want to join the police force.
It is said that if a chinese were to marry a muslim, he or she should be converted to a muslim as well. This barriers may prevent people from having inter-racial marriages Companies may not want to spend the money to organise courses to bond their employees of different races together. This way, the employees may group themselves according to their races and therefore, discrimination happens. If the government were to plan carnivals for the different ages and races, there are bound t be some joker who refuses to join in such activities which may put the government’s efforts in vain Television channels may not want to play other races’ shows as it may prevent them from maximising their profits.
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