Dire need for English to be a must-pass subject

Assalamualaikum and every good evening to all.

This entry would be my response towards the excerpt of a newspaper dated 25th February 2013 which was published in New Straits Times by Lavanya Lingan titled "Dire need for English to be a must-pass subject". 

The writer believes that English is imperative subject in order to make a change towards the educational status in Malaysia. It is an initiative to inculcate a better generation of Malaysia which is English is a medium and the new benchmark to be achieved. Yet, the writer highlights the question whether we are ready to realise the dream. Setting a new goal in our educational system need to consider a lot of things. Datuk Ali Hassan himself brings the idea of English as a must-pass subject still requires a lot of planning and preparations therefore, the upcoming results upon the student is promising.

A former teacher, Lee Mei Ling, 44 also commented that the new idea would put Malaysia as one of the famous education centre to study. It is how people would see Malaysia as an influential country when the new system of English be the must-pass subject in Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) as improving English subject is not a simple job, it needs a hard working, effective action plans towards make it true. I would that in the next future, if the idea is implemented, Malaysia would born a huge number of professionals in any intellectual fields.

English language, a global language understand by millions of people worldwide.

However, the new idea still need to go a research and development to ensure the feedback given is positive. It is true when a parent commented (Fawziah Mohd Shahar, 42) English is a crucial subject when student learn in tertiary level. Every thing needs student to understand how English works in assignments, tasks and even the lecture in universities are mostly in English. Therefore, mastering English subject should be boosted and enhanced from the early beginning as making it a compulsory subject to be passed by students.

Apart being a futuristic in order to make the Malaysia generations is competent enough to play the game in real life , we should not neglect the mother tongue of Malaysia where Bahasa Malaysia is equally vital to be mastered. It is how to promote Malaysia to be excellence in many ways and not to forget their root as Malaysians.

Thanks for your time and let's make the change towards a better nation.

Assalamualaikum

Women behind the wheels??

Assalamualaikum and very good evening to all

So what am I going to discuss about in this entry?

Haa it is all about the stereotyping of women where they are judged to be reckless, no skill and nuts drivers.

So the question is:

Stereotyping is exaggerated generalization associated with categorizing system, they go beyond facts at hand and make claim that usually have no valid basis. However, it is also something that most people find difficult to avoid from doing. So, let's explore your sense of tendency to make generalization by expanding the following statement:

women shouldn't be behind wheel...

But before we narrow down the scope, what is actually stereotyping?

Oxford Dictionary 8^th Edition for Advanced Learners said stereotyping is a fixed idea or image that many people have of a particular type of person or thing, but which is often not true in reality.

As part of the society,I would disagree when woman is labelled in such annoying way when every single problems arise on road and many people would pinpoint the issue to women as the problem creator.

Therefore, what are we going to response to this stereotype?

Let's watch this video first..

                           

So how is it? This does not mean I am stereotyping towards the women as I am a girl too. Even though I admit that women are actually ignorant, reckless and drive with no sense; but women too,are human being. Normally people love to be sarcastic as a way to advice the women to drive well on the road but sarcasm could not work to help women to be behind wheel and yes, this video is actually promoting the stereotyping towards women as a nuts drivers.

It is based on the individual to see different things different. If we love to put the blame to women in terms of driving on the road, we can't simply put the wrong label. It is because there are also women drivers which are excellent in driving. It is not how the women create the problem but give them a chance to learn like what has been done in Afghanistan where women is educated to be behind the wheels. Another sample to put women on high status in driving is through campaign like Salute to Women, where they help women to be master in driving. (You may refer to this article for further information - http://www.salute2women.com/). Yet, it shows us that the world is promoting towards better female drivers!

Putting label is not a solution as it will create the sense of competing the opposite sex in particular issue. This would never get woman and man at peace as both are totally different physical, mentally and psychologically. Thus, putting blame and being stereotype would not help woman to improve their driving skill. I cannot deny with the fact posted by a website, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2012188/Women-drivers-ARE-dangerous-wheel-scientists-discover.html, it showed that women contributed more to the statistics of accidents but I believe men also make mistakes. I review thess facts actually promote the sensitivity of condemning women behind the wheels too.

The phenomena of stereotyping would also prevent the harmonious mood on the road when there are people who stick to this stereotype and easily get argue when there is small problem. For instance, a day a wife drives to school with her husband and she forgot put on the signal to drop by their kids to school the wife do not know how to park when the arrived the school compound. The family would get into a problem, the husband and wife would get on the nerve while driving and this makes their children perceived that their parents are actually not a loving married couple. Thus, the kid will finally affected to escapism as they refuse to listen to the problem faced by the parents everyday and prefer to go to school by themselves. This would lead them to social ills where they would find the family is problematic . This situation seems far from the topic given but this is reality in our live where a broken home could start from the small matter like being stereotyping towards partner.

Therefore I really hope that someday people would not judge the driving style by women  heartlessly. It is about how the community should work together to make change to the better not condemning them. It is also give positive values to all if the women are thought and advocated on driving not to be the perfect one but improve the lacking part, the flaws; which finally make the road a safe place to drive by all.

So, let's make changes for women to be a professional drivers too :D

Assalamualaikum..