Social Reflection #5

Reflection #5

 

Ways to make change.

We live in being satisfied with everything and can not live. But if it goes socially, people want to change what they are not satisfied to be satisfied. And we learned about the big frame of lobbies, petitions, and civil disobedience that can “way to change” in the social class. Actually, to me, Lobbies is the confused one, But I understood it as the concept of power. A petition is used to call attention to the issue of public interest or concern and to require that effect. When petitioning is needed, it is necessary not to be an individual’s opinion, so it is done in the form of a signing exercise, collecting opinions of citizens and submitting them to the government. Therefore, I think the petition is the closest way to communicate with citizens. And Civil disobedience. It refers to the act of publicly rejecting the law of the country or the order of the government or ruling power when it is judged unfair. It usually nonviolence but not always. I learned by teaching that these “ways to change” are not only used to change big things. If we are not satisfied with the school, we can do enough petition or civil disobedience. I think the lobbies I understand are not good enough. I think these various “ways to change” methods are all communication in a big sense. I hope that people will be able to reflect on their opinions and take better account of better laws and better worlds.

 

Election systems

I thought the election was one of the fairways to pick something. However, when Mr. Chan took the example of voting in the class, my thoughts changed a bit. Three students went out of the class and we just vote for a person that we wanted. We changed the rules of the vote every time and according to the rules of vote changed the results also changed. I think the reason we vote is to choose fair. But I think that only voting rules should not be fair. If we have to pick one of them and one of them has a lot of money and can advertise more, it is not fair. Therefore, in order to be fair, the choice should also be fair. I heard that BC is currently using a voting system called First Past the Post (FPTP). FPTP Voting is a way for voters to display their choice on the ballot. That way, the person with the most votes will win. In addition, there are various election methods such as Dual Member Proportional (DMP), Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) and Rural-Urban Proportional (RUP). I believe that the voting methods we have now are ways to help fair choices that have evolved over time.