Blog prompt 8

Blog Prompt 8: Tell us whether or not you tend to pay attention to events in other parts of the world and why? Why should we care about what happens in places far away from where we live in general?

Reflections:

I personally feel that I do pay some attention to events in other parts of the world, mostly around South-East Asia.  I also feel that we should care about what happens in places far away from us as it affects not only affects the countries near that place, it also affects us as a whole. 

We should pay attention to the events in other parts of the world firstly to keep up with the times and not be so ignorant. Doing so, I would be able to understand the situation that the other countries are having and also paying attention helps in your current affairs knowledge. If you only read a small portion, it is still fine as at least when someone talks to you about current affairs, you are able to understand part of it and be able to give a response that has some relation to that topic. However, reading more would benefit more.

We should pay attention to the events also because we have to prepare for the worse in some cases. For example, take the recent Japan Earthquake. The Earthquake involved a Tsunami following right after it and also quite a number of deaths. By understanding the situation in Japan, we can prepare for the worse by looking up on some safety measures to take when something similar happens to us. Furthermore, Japan is quite close to us and there is still that slim possibility of something similar occurring in Singapore. Mr Goh Chok Tong stated that the Japanese are much superior towards Singaporeans since the Japanese were quite calm and optimistic despite the terrible disaster. Also, many survived although the disaster was far worse than expected. Furthermore, Japan is still having a positive attitude now and has even starting planning for the rebuilding of their city. By taking such precautions, Mr Goh wouldn’t make this comment again and will feel that Singaporeans are on par with the Japanese. Also, other countries would not look down on us.

I feel that we should care about the events that happened in places far away from us. We cannot possibility just say that since those countries are far away from us, the disaster for example, they are facing would not affect us and thus, we should not care. Firstly, there is still a slim probability of something similar occurring to us although we are far away. Next, also if the disaster does not hit us, we still have to pay attention to it to understand more and possibly make a donation or something. Lastly, it could not be the disaster that would affect us, but it could also be the country itself that affects us. The country’s economy and financial state would be affected after a disaster. If one part of the global economy is affected, the rest would be affected too. By understanding the situation there, we can not only help by thinking how to resolve their problems, but also think of how we can prevent this incident from happening in future if it occurs to us. We can also consider and think of how we can aid our economy since if that country's economy goes bankrupt after the disaster, we are bound to lose some money and investors. This is what we can do and also this is why we should pay attention to events that happens far away from us.