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pace of development for the people, state and country. In a developing country
like ours, we cannot afford a situation that does not move on the ground and that
we remain a stagnant society with the stationary economy. Basically, we must
work harder to transform our traditional society to become a more successful,
modern and progressive society to beit our status as people of a developed nation
towards the year 2020.
The transition must not only be conined to economic progress but in the
development of the character of the people. Generally, the people, once they
have achieved certain level of success in development, they want more freedom
and power in order to achieve bigger things in life. It is alright but sometimes the
power does not match with their understanding of the process of development,
which entails the necessity to cooperate with the government in the pursuit of
common progress and advancement. That is our position today.
Generally, the people do not have the same perception. For example, our
young people, who have never seen attap houses, walked on one blockbridge
across a river and paddled their way to schools as the old generations did, don’t
understand what poverty means. To them everything can be taken for granted.
Therefore, they are gullible to irresponsible politics that instigate them to ask
for more and more things in their daily life without their own efforts. They have
not learnt to be grateful with what ever they have in life. They must learn to
recognize that they are living a much better life than their parents, grand parents
or their ancestors. To them, what ever the government gives or what ever they
get is their right. It is the problem of rising expectation that can be exploited by
irresponsible elements including irresponsible politicians. We have not evolved
enough sense of responsibility in any political parties that can bring the people
to have a more realistic response to development.
The problem between the changing and rising expectation
and perception, the new perception that makes the people
wish for more and more things, without regards to how they
can be achieved, will make development implementation more
dificult. We must ind ways to solve the problem of rising
expectation of the younger generations as it can complicate our
process of development. It will give political leaders and
civil servants migraine or headache as we accelerate
the pace of development towards the year 2020 and
beyond.
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like ours, we cannot afford a situation that does not move on the ground and that
we remain a stagnant society with the stationary economy. Basically, we must
work harder to transform our traditional society to become a more successful,
modern and progressive society to beit our status as people of a developed nation
towards the year 2020.
The transition must not only be conined to economic progress but in the
development of the character of the people. Generally, the people, once they
have achieved certain level of success in development, they want more freedom
and power in order to achieve bigger things in life. It is alright but sometimes the
power does not match with their understanding of the process of development,
which entails the necessity to cooperate with the government in the pursuit of
common progress and advancement. That is our position today.
Generally, the people do not have the same perception. For example, our
young people, who have never seen attap houses, walked on one blockbridge
across a river and paddled their way to schools as the old generations did, don’t
understand what poverty means. To them everything can be taken for granted.
Therefore, they are gullible to irresponsible politics that instigate them to ask
for more and more things in their daily life without their own efforts. They have
not learnt to be grateful with what ever they have in life. They must learn to
recognize that they are living a much better life than their parents, grand parents
or their ancestors. To them, what ever the government gives or what ever they
get is their right. It is the problem of rising expectation that can be exploited by
irresponsible elements including irresponsible politicians. We have not evolved
enough sense of responsibility in any political parties that can bring the people
to have a more realistic response to development.
The problem between the changing and rising expectation
and perception, the new perception that makes the people
wish for more and more things, without regards to how they
can be achieved, will make development implementation more
dificult. We must ind ways to solve the problem of rising
expectation of the younger generations as it can complicate our
process of development. It will give political leaders and
civil servants migraine or headache as we accelerate
the pace of development towards the year 2020 and
beyond.
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