Today's Star "Stuff@School" front-paged this picture.
What do they intent to depict and tell us?
Isn't this a seditious picture?
See carefully and you'll find the two girls wearing tudung with "?" and "Chill out..." with another fuming "OMG I'm dead meat", while there's another girl expecting "A+".
To me, that seditious and contemptuous. It parade an impression that is totally and utterly unfair and unreasonable and defamatory in nature.
Success in education and ability to score As has nothing to do with race, religion or creed. It involves consistent hardwork, attention and passion. The schools and it's teachers also played a significant part in grooming the students and preparing their education. The parents will also have to play a significant part in motivating and monitoring their children's education. Most of all, it involve sacrifices from the children's part and their parents. You can be British, American, or Arabs, and it will not make you automatically intellectualistic. Consistent and continuous Effort and passion is the answer. You can be a Muslim or Hindu; no one is inferior for God did not make stupid people... everyone is equal by birth and only politics caused us to be differentiated and marginalized.
7 comments:
shit. is that for real? niamah! friggin' hell...kebetulan saja...
i think to a large extent WE, malaysians, can't help but notice the race factor. maybe one day we can just view the cartoon as a cartoon. :D
Look around you; the most religious people in the world are the most miserable, live in poverty and violence, are not healthier and happier, and not smart enough to know better.
I agree with your view that "Success in education.. has nothing to do with race, religion or creed. It involves consistent hardwork, attention and passion... it involve sacrifices from the children's part and their parents.
A successful student is forged through his/her perseverence, self-motivation and sacrifice and has nothing to do with race or religion.
In the field of intelligence, there are three facts about the transmission of intelligence that virtually everyone seems to accept:
1. Both heredity and environment contribute to intelligence.
2. Heredity and environment interact in various ways.
3. Extremely poor as well as highly enriched environments can interfere with the realization of a person's intelligence, regardless of the person's heredity
Mother Nature has plainly not entrusted the determination of our intellectual capacities to the blind fate of a gene or genes; she gave us parents, learning, language, culture and education to program ourselves with.
Source: http://www.wilderdom.com/personality/L4-1IntelligenceNatureVsNurture.html
Anon,
I agree with your points of contention.
good catch, boss :)
indeed... good observation. i have not been reading the papers for a while now... only relying on online news and alternative source like blogs. looks like mainstream media has got a lot of interesting stuff going on nowadays.
one would wonder, is it done on purpose, or pure co-incidence.
Look around you; the most religious people in the world are the most miserable, live in poverty and violence, are not healthier and happier, and not smart enough to know better.
Now what would God think of you if you truly believed in that statement? Making such a general sweeping statement like that could offend very religious people who are also renowned scientists.
Perhaps you could define what your interpretation of religion is, first. My guess is you think being religious means being backward, although how you managed to reach that conclusion is definitely questionable.
Let us consider the words of a scientific and religious person that all of us should be familiar with:
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"
- Albert Einstein
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