News Feedback: Born to Anti- bully in This Way

                                

news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/15571302

  After viewing Lady Gaga’s news, I want to have a say on campus bullying. First, I partially agree with the concept that family, teacher and mess media share responsibilities on campus bullying. However, it seems that we frequently skip an important role who cannot shun the responsibility, either. That is the onlookers, who silently witness campus bullying occurring. These onlookers are bullies in disguise due to their silent permission to violent incidents. Their behaviors may be based on two different psychologies: one is the fear of being the next victim once they sympathize the bullied, and the other is the hatefulness toward victims just like those bullies. Nevertheless, whatever these onlookers ponder, their attitudes of standing by will only enforce the violence to happen instead of terminating it.

　　　Second, some myths about bullying are held by public, and require fixing. In some expeerts’ sentences, students with poor academic performance will bully others to draw teachers’ attentions. Conventionally, students who score low are apt to bullying their classmates. But do students with excellent grades not bully others? Another myth relates to Sharon’s feedback that the bullied do not want to get along with others due to their inferiority. A traditional concept is held that a shy or timid person tends to be a victim. However, conditions like lack of friendship or transferring to a new place may be crises for the long-term bullied. Other myths like bullies possessing a low ego remain discussed. Actually, there is no evidence to prove the relationship between bullies and low self-esteem. Contrarily, most of them are confident and popular among their peers, especially in junior and senior highs. Maybe adolescent youths consider rebellion and bullying ways to show their uniqueness and power. In sum, we should fix some stereotypes on campus bullying.

　　　Last, congratulate to Lady Gaga’s successful establishment of the Born This Way Foundation. Celebrity as she is, Lady Gaga still concerns human equality. She believes that no matter the homosexual or the transgendered should share the same equality as others, because God makes no mistakes. Now she strives to reach her goal by helping youths with anti-bullying issues. In her inspiring statement, Lady Gaga said, "Together we hope to establish a standard of bravery and kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment." Hopefully, her dream of equal society will realize in the soon future. 


Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation: http://www.bornthiswayfoundation.org/

Age Under Thirty, the Eighth Sin?

"I won't  hire those under thirty. ........They are irresponsible, unwilling to do hard work. " As mr. Jiang blastes the youngsters uhder thirty during a magazine interview, Strawberry Generation then become widly discussed and consecutively reported. Strawberry Generation is used to labeled  people born in 80"s, even in 90's, with some bias traits: low endurance, low stabliity, hendonism as well as hylicism, selfish man, and having high degree but inept. However, I consider these sterotypes  partially off the fact and misunderstood in two aspects.First, Strawberry Generation is  originally used to describe people in Taiwan born in 70's, "post-baby-boom" in another term, by a Career Magazine maneger due to their extremely various values. This phenomenon is not distinct in Taiwan but in other nations with different names. Those born in 70's are called "Generation X" in America, "New Human" in Japan, and "Generation 386" in Korea. Their existence represents a generation gap and sturs an arguement around the globe.

Second, the 70's doesn't resemble the 80's as well as the 90's in job transference. The 70's often changing occupations at will directly relates to the bubble economy time, a period that numerous companys and factories from financial field to technology industry all need emloyees frantically. Thus, elders cannot stand their low stability and low endurance and irresponsibility, labling  these youths as Strawberry Generation. Yet we 70's and 80's transfer our jobs frequently for we face a dilemma on work declination instead. For the quantity of work, it is a common pratice that we born in 80's and 90's hardly find a job, let alone obtaining a career which meets our interests nowadays. For instance, there was always an opportunity for the office worker  born in 70's getting a promotion due to the large demands on infrastruction and human resource at that time. Contrarily,  we youngsters nowadays pound the pavement hard end up being refused by employers with a reluctance to hire  "strawberries." For quantity of work,  de-skilled labor with no need to have complete technique strangely defines one with high degree.We can find numerous people with master degree making a living as salesmen, college students moonlighting  to earn penut salary......etc.

To sum up, I consider what Mr.Jiang strive to emphasize is the importance of having right attitude instead of the working age.It is the mass media that puts off the topic and exaggerates his reluctance of hiring whose age is under thirty to make this news more appealingand provoking. Actually, I think Mr. Jiang tried to say those with strawberry-generation traits are more likely to be eliminated than those under-thirty youngsters in the workingplace.Just like Mr. Jiang emphasized,"Atttitude is everything! " 

Facebook, a Tool for Connection?

     As the research pointed out, numerous Internet users are captured by the attraction of Facebook, a prevalent social website. Since its initiation in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has become the most welcomed social networking site, with over 500 million members in 2010. From connecting people across the globe to giving users an opportunity to polish their networking skills, Facebook offers it all. What’s more, it has become a great platform for raising social issues and also a profitable advertising tool with a broader reach than any other media. Nowadays, many youths are addicted to it, and I, unfortunately, am no exception because I browse through it at least three hours per day. Addicted as I am, I still have a say on this website’s merit and flipside.

      The cream of Facebook must be its feature to cultivate intimacy with friends, especially with those in “weak relationship.” By “weak relationship,” I mean it describes the friendship with nodding acquaintance like classmates in elementary school as well as in kindergarten, or ex-colleagues in previous workplace. By adding them in our Facebook, these friends in “weak relationship” can keep in touch with us anew. Thanks to Facebook, it creates and builds up a strong intimacy between people. Nevertheless, this kind of intimacy is not a real one but an outcome of virtual interaction. Adding more on this news, Facebook adversely affects the social communication skills of the youths. It spoils the value of long distance relationships, because the relationship is built and maintained through a website with lacks of emotional and physical involvement. Though the friend list in the networking site keeps mounting, how many of members are our real friend is a question worthy of pondering. Remember, friendship is more than just knowing a person over the internet.

     Obviously, privacy is the shortcoming discussed most. Seldom do users realize that Facebook serve a function named Open Graph API. The power of the Open Graph API is that it helps to create a smarter, personalized web that gets better with every action taken. It can record every website, link we visit frequently by setting countless “like” buttons in most of the websites. For instance, if we love a band on Pandora, that information can become part of the graph so that later if we visit a concert site, the site can tell us when our favorite band is coming to our area. In the other term, some criminal rings are able to go through our pockets by setting similar fishing sites. What’s worse, there is always the fear of cyber stalking in Facebook, and chances are that our personal details and photos might land up in wrong hands. To me, the problem on privacy relates to a film I have watched before, The Truman Show, starred by Jim Carrey. In this film, not until ages to thirty year old, does the main character Truman aware of living in a constructed reality television show, broadcast 24-hours-a-day to billions of people across the globe. Similar condition as Facebook does, it forces us to live in the age without privacy. 

      These qualities and features of Facebook is a double edged sword. We have to give a second thought on using it because it is the event happened right in front of us. Even as a Facebook member, there is no compulsion to share information every single day, or addicted to it like criminal inhaling drug. As a one-click culture, Facebook is synonymous with the Internet. They all can be beneficial or disruptive, only depend on us.