Democracy and elections.

This the title of the social assignment. I found it was very suitable and meaningful for the blog so I revised and edited the ariticle partly and decided to post it in my blog. The article is about the briery and other distractive nonsense during some elections may hinder the democratic process in human's society.

Elections are recognized as a symbol of the democracy (electoral democracy), but current situations of elections especially in the Asia are hindering progress in democracies somehow.

Firstly, in electoral process, citizens vote for their ideal representatives in governments or parliaments. It is really displaying the spirit of democracy (like the author said, every voters think of their own best candicates who can represent their command in politics and serve for their requirement), the representatives control the group of people’s political power reflected on various conferences they participate in. But there is a problem in reality which makes the democratic system not as good and effective as we expected. Because the representatives may have self desire, probably they may abuse the political power which belongs to his people in fact and disobey their pledge and promises in elections. It is easy and convenient for them to satisfy their own requirement such as money, lands and many others. If so, the electoral process and its result, representative system may hinder the progress of democracy.

Secondly, bribery is a poison in the electoral process and may cause serious corruption of the whole political system including democracies. Some particular political parties tend to offer financial benefits and other entertainment to attract voters’ attention and induce them to vote for themselves (like in the article, ‘the pasar malam creates a happy place for families to enjoy themselves, selling from VCDs to clothes and snacks’ a party official said). Therefore, the result of the elections become the consideration of citizens own benefits in the elections and actually irrelevant to the politics itself as well as democracy (since the citizens are not considering rationally on the political power). In the other word, the result of the elections is not representing citizens’ willingness on politics, and those eventual winners had better to go to some entertaining TV programs because they are really good at that. Party is used to describe the election time in Indonesia and many other places ( reference from the article).

Moreover, these particular political parties’ behavior is disrespecting the politics, democracy and citizens’ power which should be very solemn. Instead the serious atmosphere, the whole elections more tend to be a happy party ,‘it can’t be completed without rock bands, gyrating daugdut singers ’and so on, they avoid serious talk and the view is that will bore the visitors, but that’s the interests and focus in the political elections. It will cheat the citizens’ awareness and making them insensitive to the politics. After winning with these illegal and illegitimate means, they do whatever they want for their self satisfactions and decay the nation, corrupt the political system and influence the citizens’ life consequently.

So, we can see the electoral progress can hinder the democracy in many aspects. It doesn’t mean the electoral system is not available in human society. It just refers to our problem when committing the elections and democracy.

Youths' physological problem

Nowadays, the cases of youths’ suicide have become more and more serious. When we look at the numbers of these young lives, we must be shocked and get , the situation is warning us severely now and we need take actions immediately and the whole society including parents, schools and others to co-operate to prevent those potential cases and calm down the burning situation.

Youths’ decline psychological condition is a very important cause of their tragedies. The problem from studies, friendships and relationship with parents gives too much pressure on their young and innocent hearts. Once the pressure becomes out of the acceptable range, they minds will collapse easily and result in those tragedies like suicides.

To solve this problem we need to find out solutions in different ways and perspectives.

As parents who are the most important people to the children, their behaviors influence their children very much. For example, if the child doesn’t do well for an examination and parents scold them very badly, it may induce the youths to be disappointed with their parents and families. Family should offer warmth and protection to its members and is the best place for people to rest and restore. Children meet the failure, may be scolded by teachers already, when they require a place to rest and restore, the place they believe in—home-doesn’t welcome them at all, it must be a huge cut on their hearts. So parents should encourage children, motivate them to work hard, educate them mildly and gently, treat them as friends and communicate sincerely with believes in each other. It can help produce a harmonic family—a wonderful and ideal place for people to restore, so if youths meet any problems that cannot solve, they can get help easily and own a healthy psychological condition. This will prevents some extreme cases like suicides from happening.

Another important part of youths’ life is school. In school, they get used to the co-operation and group work; get to know friends, classmates and teachers. Those play an important role in their life as well. Actually, the youths’ most problems come from the school because of the study and friendship which are the most core elements in their students’ career and golden ages. Especially the study is the thorniest problem. The competitions among schools, classes and individuals are very fierce. Failures are very normal but some students have a fragile psychological condition and are not able to accept the result easily. In these cases, the school ought to take responsibility to take care of them when parents are not around, detect the problems in time and solve it. A talk, an encouragement and ‘hello’ may help them a lot. Teachers and classmates may have awareness of taking care others, avoid conflict as much as possible to reduce the may-be hurt in case that the pupil is very depressed.

All in all, youths’ problem is very serious and we had better prevent it immediately otherwise there will be more and more tragedies.