As I refer to Lee Wei Ling's post, I realise the true meaning of being self-centred. Well, in the newspaper post, she referred to Singaporean's as being self centred due to our upbringing. I think that there is a flaw in this argument.
As you refer to her article, you would be able to see that she is only showing an example of us being self-centred. However, there are so many of us who are not, and we work harder than what our peers do. It is also not only our upbringing that determines on who we are and what attitude towards life is. It includes all the external factors, such as peer pressure, your parents being a role model and much more.
I personally feel that Singaporeans are not concerned solely and chiefly about themselves. Singaporeans know how to help others who are in need too. An example was that, today, I boarded the MRT train and I saw a young person giving a seat to an old lady. Well, this is only one instance, but it is already enough to prove that Singaporeans are not that self-centred. They know when they are supposed to be concerned about themselves instead of others.
Singaporeans, as she wrote in this article, are "more self-centred and less hard-working than we were". Well, this should be blamed on the technological age where all of us are all "addicted" to the Internet and some sites such as Facebook or Twitter as networkings. The era of walking around to meet your friends has been long gone. Now, students, teachers and parents are all communicating through social networking sites or even MSN, which are all found on a single Windows XP desktop. People now don't talk to each other that much anymore, as technological advancements have replaced that. Like me, writing this blog post about Miss Lee here. We are all connected through handphones, so what is there for us to talk about when we can just type out a simple and fast SMS??
This is just one of the simple factor that affects why we are lazy and less hard-working. Being a single child of my family, I know what it was like to be pampered. We, as children, can have all the things that we want in the world, just by saying good things about our parents and they will fulfill any request that is within their reach.
I agree with Miss Lee here that our upbringing affects our personality in life, but it is not the only singled-out factor. Well, I personally feel that the world around us is spinning and we are changing the world by what we are doing right now. Soon, the technological era would come to a stop and another era of new gadgets would be in place of the old ones.
So, are Singaporeans self-centred by an only fact that our upbringing affects our character in life? I don't think so.
What are your comments on this, please feel free to comment.
Thank you.
As you refer to her article, you would be able to see that she is only showing an example of us being self-centred. However, there are so many of us who are not, and we work harder than what our peers do. It is also not only our upbringing that determines on who we are and what attitude towards life is. It includes all the external factors, such as peer pressure, your parents being a role model and much more.
I personally feel that Singaporeans are not concerned solely and chiefly about themselves. Singaporeans know how to help others who are in need too. An example was that, today, I boarded the MRT train and I saw a young person giving a seat to an old lady. Well, this is only one instance, but it is already enough to prove that Singaporeans are not that self-centred. They know when they are supposed to be concerned about themselves instead of others.
Singaporeans, as she wrote in this article, are "more self-centred and less hard-working than we were". Well, this should be blamed on the technological age where all of us are all "addicted" to the Internet and some sites such as Facebook or Twitter as networkings. The era of walking around to meet your friends has been long gone. Now, students, teachers and parents are all communicating through social networking sites or even MSN, which are all found on a single Windows XP desktop. People now don't talk to each other that much anymore, as technological advancements have replaced that. Like me, writing this blog post about Miss Lee here. We are all connected through handphones, so what is there for us to talk about when we can just type out a simple and fast SMS??
This is just one of the simple factor that affects why we are lazy and less hard-working. Being a single child of my family, I know what it was like to be pampered. We, as children, can have all the things that we want in the world, just by saying good things about our parents and they will fulfill any request that is within their reach.
I agree with Miss Lee here that our upbringing affects our personality in life, but it is not the only singled-out factor. Well, I personally feel that the world around us is spinning and we are changing the world by what we are doing right now. Soon, the technological era would come to a stop and another era of new gadgets would be in place of the old ones.
So, are Singaporeans self-centred by an only fact that our upbringing affects our character in life? I don't think so.
What are your comments on this, please feel free to comment.
Thank you.
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