Thursday, June 08, 2006

Are We Really A Courteous Society?

We always proud to say that we are really courteous. This is because we are taught in the East to respect our elders, to help one another and etc. We even put it into our tourism advertisment. But the question is, is all of this true? Are we what we say to be?

I started to question this because lately we are becoming more an arrogant society than a courteous society like we alway believe we are. I have this scenario, in a journey to Ipoh from Penang, we stopped at one of this R&R. After we have finished resting, we decided to continue our journey. When we were in the car, we heard a banging sound. This is due to the passenger at the other car, accidentally (lets hope so) bang the back of my sister's car while she was opening the door of her car.

It is OK, all of this was an accident. But to not apologize or even say something, it is damn rude. What she did was to get into the car and just drove away. I am really shocked to see what we have become. This is just one of the scenario or situation. If we bumped into someone, we are taught to say, "I am sorry". But instead we get into a quarrel and blame the other person to be in the way.

What went wrong to our society? I hope that with my two cents, people of Malaysia could start to realize the good values that were taught to us when we were small and apply it. Like I always say, this is just my two cents.

1 Comments:

At 3:21 AM , Blogger Faizal Jaafar said...

If the passenger was a Malay, we call it Melayu Totok. If the passenger was a Chinese, we call it Cina Bukit. If the passenger was an Indian, we call it pa***. Other than these, we call it fuckface.

Now, all of the above memang bersepah kat Malaysia ni, no love for them. About them being courteous? Not in a million years!

 

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