Section B- Weekly discussion
Local news:
Title:
Mara offers ‘second chance’ to Malaysian student in UK child porn case
Date:
5 May 2015
Place:
Petaling Jaya
Define:
The 23-year-old Malaysian had been
awarded a scholarship to study mathematics at Imperial
College London. He convicted of being in possession of extreme
pornographic images and videos of children will be given a chance to continue his
studies once he returns home. However, Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) council
member, Nazir Hussin Akhtar Hussin said the second chance was not only extended
to Nur Fitri but also other exemplary students sponsored by Mara that face the
same fate because they are national assets.
On MARA side,
- "He is a smart student and it is a pity to waste someone
who can be an asset to the country”
-— "This proposition is a way of our
support to him. Personally, I agree. We will provide our support in various
forms for him to reshape his identity,"
On other
petitions side,
- "Hopefully
Mara will not waste public funds. #NoSecondChance," Khairy, who is Youth
and Sports Minister, said in a Twitter posting today
- "I strongly believe he doesn't
deserve the scholarship. If he wants to continue his studies, he should be
paying for it himself and I want his location to be disclosed as I want to know
if there is a child predator living near me,
-"Malaysians are hungry for study
loans and aid, and there are many students on the waiting list,"
Values: Caring, sympathy, hopeful
(MARA)
Ungrateful, obsessive (Student)
Wise, Caring (Khairy)
Principle:
Moral Virtue (MARA – Trust)
¢ MARA believes giving a second chance
to the student would eventually become a valuable return to the country
Deontology (Khairy)
¢ Khairy strongly opposes the idea of
giving the student a second chance, he hoped that MARA would not waste the
public funds on the student as there are many other young talented students out
in the country in hope to acquire study loans and aids.
Loyalties: In my point of view, I agree with Khairy’s
point of view. Nur Fitri should give himself
a second chance by continuing his studies at his own expense and not at the
expense of MARA. This is the only way he can learn his lesson. Besides, it is
unfair to other scholars who lost their scholarship for more minor
offences and there is also no guarantee that he would not repeat the same
mistake again.
International
news:
Title: Nivea deletes video
slammed for shaming Singaporean women with dark arm pits
Date: 3 March 2015
Place: Singapore/ Nivea’s
Singapore Facebook page
Define:Body care
brand Nivea has come under fire in social media and by a women’s rights group
in Singapore for stigmatising women with dark arm pit skin. A three-minute
video posted on Nivea’s Facebook page features a
young Singaporean woman --Maimunah Bagharib (youtube star) who is shunned by
members of the public because she has darkly coloured arm pits. The film
promoting NIVEA Extra white & firm Q10 deodorant.
Gender equality group, AWARE Singapore, stated
“Apparently having the ‘wrong’ colour of armpit makes you unfit to interact
with other human beings. This is supposedly humour – but is promoting shame and
insecurity about our bodies a laughing matter? Some commenters let NIVEA know
about their objections – good on them!”
Values:
Disrespectful, unfair, bias (NIVEA)
Respect of gender (AWARE Singapore)
Principle:
Deontology (NIVEA)- Nivea released an advertisement to
promote it's product and also to educate about it is alright to have certain
flaws on your body. However, after they published the ads on their facebook
page, it has gain a lot of negative comments and many felt that the
advertisement creates unrealistic expectations on women to be “beautiful” at
all times. At the end, they were forced to remove the ad.
Loyalties:
In my point of view,
I think the ads is effective and humorous. It was a light-hearted video
that made us laugh. There were no thoughts running through my head about
unnecessary levels of social pressure or the need to be beautiful at all
times. Besides, I don’t think that deleting the ad is the best option. The main
issue is not that these expectations exist, but more importantly, how we chose
to respond to them. What we should do is not to shun and delete these ads away
from the Internet, but to use them as lessons instead. The existence of the
NIVEA advertisement could have been a great way to teach the younger
generations about having dark underarms is normal and something can be done
about them. When people learn to accept the inevitability of these occasional
slip-ups, and to even laugh them off; society will in a better place.
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