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http://www.todayonline.com/voice ... haviour-begins-home
Good, civic-minded behaviour begins at home
PETER CHANG THAIM MENG
PUBLISHED: 4:00 AM, OCTOBER 25, 2016
I refer to the report “Follow overseas laws when abroad, MFA urges S’poreans” (Oct 20) and am puzzled that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs needed to advise Singaporeans to behave well while abroad.
The anti-civic-minded examples provided, such as drug trafficking and hurling vulgarities at immigration officers, applies to all countries, including Singapore. The impression is that these behaviours are acceptable when done here. Obviously, we do not condone them either.
In the case of the woman who hurled vulgarities, she probably displays such behaviour in Singapore. Unsavoury behaviour is not incidental but learnt through unchecked conditioning, either from educational oversight or social apathy.
This attitude of superiority, possibly owing to the delusion that one is either wealthier or better educated than others, is a common problem in Singaporean society.
Drivers who speed and swerve along our highways, with disregard for safety and social graces, come to mind.
Another example is cyclists on walkways; while waiting for a bus, one can observe them passing through the bus stop without disembarking or signalling courteously with their bells.
These antisocial behaviours, which seem to pervade all levels of society, serve only to encourage distasteful actions. These include pedestrians crossing the road without consideration for other users, residents placing items to reserve parking spots along a public road and the flouting of littering and smoking rules.
Those who say these occur infrequently have to only look around with renewed awareness. I see that people abide by the rules grudgingly when law enforcement officers are in the vicinity, only to revert when the opportunity arises.
This is not how a mature society behaves. Singaporeans should not and would not be proud to be associated with such behaviour.
The Government should have a plan to assist society in seeking to instil good behaviour, through encouragement and enforcement with conviction, so as to make reminders such as that from the MFA superfluous.
I see its advisory as evidence of the lack of courtesy and civic-mindedness in the mindset of the public, leading to advice more suited to a rulebook for a schoolchild than a statement for a worldly citizen.
我參考的報告“在海外遵守海外法律，MFA敦促S'poreans”（10月20日），令人疑惑的是，外交部需要建議新加坡人在國外表現良好。
提供的反公民意識的例子，例如販毒和移民官員的庸俗性，適用於所有國家，包括新加坡。印像是這些行為在這裡做到是可以接受的。顯然，我們也不會寬恕他們。
在女人誰匆匆粗俗的情況下，她可能在新加坡顯示這種行為。不幸的行為不是偶然的，而是通過不受限制的條件學習，從教育監督或社會冷漠。
這種優越的態度，可能是由於一個人比另一個人富有或受到更好的教育的妄想，是新加坡社會的共同問題。
司機們在不顧安全和社會恩寵的情況下，沿著我們的高速公路快速轉彎，轉向頭腦。
另一個例子是人行道上的騎自行車者;在等待公共汽車的時候，人們可以觀察他們穿過公共汽車站，而不必下車或用禮貌的信號表達他們的鐘聲。
這些反社會行為似乎貫穿社會各個層面，只能鼓勵令人討厭的行為。這些包括行人在不考慮其他用戶的情況下橫過馬路，居民將物品放在沿著公共道路預訂停車點，以及淹沒亂拋垃圾和吸煙規則。
那些說這些事情很少發生的人只能圍繞著新的意識。我看到當執法人員在附近時，人們勉強遵守規則，只有在機會出現時才恢復。
這不是一個成熟的社會行為。新加坡人不應該也不會為與這種行為有關而感到自豪。
政府應該有一個計劃，協助社會通過鼓勵和堅定的信念，建立良好的行為，以便像外交部提醒那樣多餘。
我認為它的諮詢證據表明，在公眾心態缺乏禮貌和公民意識，導致更適合一個學生的規則的建議，而不是一個世界公民的聲明。 |
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