2011年8月22日 星期一

The sample writing as submitted to civic-exchange


Lately, the pro-establishments and the pro-business parties have been preying on the controversy over the right of abode for overseas domestic workers to attack the democrats.

Surely they have not forgotten the words of wisdom in politics: “Never let a crisis go wasted.” Just like our last landlords, they are utilizing every opportunity they can get to make sure their opponents go astray. The Civic Party is the victim this time, as one of their members is currently employed by the foreign workers on this case.

The Civic Party is always about professionalism and “rule by law”, and understandably looking bad when the DAB mobilize their grass-root patriots spreading spam posts on the internet, organizing demonstrations and writing critiques on newspapers.

Yet, the funny thing that we need to ask ourselves is that, the post-80s, the group that has been suffering the most under the hegemony of local landlords and malfunctioning of government, is actually standing up to defend the positions of the foreign workers. It does sound paradoxical and actually absurd, but then why’s that?

The simply answer is that a good nation is hard to govern, the post-80s see through the tricks of the populists. There has lately been a rise of the rightists, around the world. From the Southern Europe up to the Scandinavian, countries are admitting an increasing number of foreign citizens, and they are alleged to be creating a threat to the local citizens.

“The cure is worse than the disease.” The so-called threats are not really threats, at least not as severe as claimed by the rightists. True good nations are those who can accept different views and opinions, creating a vibrant and liberal society.

By preying on chances like this, opportunists stir up the hatred feelings towards the minorities in order to gain votes for elections. Their action is creating a new wave of terrorism, a wave of terrorism which is from the hearts of west – those who claim that they are the true protectors of western values and traditions.

It would be interesting to analyze the impact of recession and extended immigration, which gave rise of the new ideas on conservatism, even extreme rightists. This topic, although much deliberation has been done concerning the Nazis, is in the modern days largely being ignored and underestimated in both sociology and political studies.

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