AND YET ANOTHER BULLYING / RAGGING CASE IN OUR MALAYSIAN PAPERS where a Royal Malaysian Air Force trainee was forced to eat his own vomit, after getting a sound thrashing. Why? It is alleged that this act of cowardice and stupidity was motivated by revenge ... why am I not surprised? Why should all of us be surprised? This is not as bad as a previous case where the ragging went too far and a 15 year old boy was killed after suffering from several beatings at the hands of several seniors.
My question for the day is: why is the culture of ragging / bullying still alive and kicking in our all institution of learning? If we picked it up from our colonial masters, why can't we be original for once and just drop this sickening, disgusting and dangerous dirty habit?
To me, a culture which promotes ragging in whatever form, shape and size is a indication of a culture which believes that only the strong survive and the weak thrashed to within an inch of his life. It is also an indication that respect can only be achieved through fear and intimidation under the thinly veiled guise of 'tradition'. Well screw that tradition if it will cost us the lives of the innocent and the weak. The idea that it will toughen the so-called weak is ridiculously moronic. No amount of torture will prepare someone to be tough when he goes for a job interview. In fact, the buliled will only see fit to perpetuate the legacy reaching a level of cycle which in some instances, is hard to end.
My wish list for this particular ugly side of Malaysian life consists of the following:
1. That all forms of ragging / freshie / getting to know your seniors bullshit ends once and for all at all levels of institutionalized education system;
2. That the perpertrators of this so-called 'tradition' be arrested and punished to the maximum extent of the law for the first 100 cases which will be used as a deterrent for other sick, like-minded perverts who thrives on bullying their juniors just in order to gain the respect they believe they deserve;
3. That parents of these perpertrators be fined for allowing their children to adopt a danger-to-society attitude by becoming bullies and raggers;
4. By kicking out these bullies / raggers from their insitution of learning thereby effectively ending their educational opportunities. The price of a wasted career is nothing compared to the price of a human life;
5. That the practice of ragging / bullying outlawed with immediate effect.
Of course, a wish list is still a wish list meaning that I strongly doubt it if it will ever come true. But I'm still going to wait and hope and wait and hope that change will come and that all bullies and raggers will ge their just deserts.
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getting to know your seniors is ok, which is why orientation is permitted. but do so within boundaries. there are lines that one should not cross. having practically grown up in a dorm (all through secondary school and college), I know what it feels like to be bullied, but thank goodness I have never experienced anything like what that boy had to endure.
The rule of thumb is, 'Never do unto others what you do not want done to you'.
Tradition be damned, even if you went through it as a junior, doesn't mean u should do it to others when you become the senior.
and oh, I noticed that the tone of your blog is dead serious, and I am not sure whether you are prepared to do something a little bit personal, but in the hope that you are, I hereby tag you. Read my blog – latest entry : Rags And Tags
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