There is a big abyss in between a abounding as great as a poor. And this abyss will continue to grow. The abounding will turn richer as great as a bad will turn poorer. Not usually in Malaysia yet all over a world.
There have been most reasons since a abyss cannot be simply bridged.
One of a categorical reasons is which a abounding have been "louder" than a poor. (By rich, we am additionally together with a center class, whatever which means)
The abounding (and a center class), by virtue of being improved educated, carrying improved entrance to media, being closer to a corridors of power, have been means to articulate as great as hold up causes which have been dear to them. Just demeanour during all a new "causes" which has attracted critical activist as great as media courtesy Bersih, Lynas, GST, press freedom, PJ Local Plan, miss of Indonesian maids, MRT alignment, etc. These have been all civic as great as middle-class issues [I am not observant they have been not important. They are]. These issues sow a media as great as capture courtesy of many. Governments regularly conflict to these. As a result, disproportionate volume of time as great as resources have been committed to civic as great as rich/middle-class causes. Because they have been "louder", it creates a fake sense which these have been a most serious/urgent problems in a country.
These "loud" fake impressions have critical impacts upon apparatus allocation. By sketch courtesy upon civic as great as center category issues, they inadverten! tly forc e a supervision to outlay some-more time as great as resources here thereby neglecting critical farming as great as bad issues.
Why doesn't a critical complaint of miss of irrigation water in a paddy fields in Kelantan as great as Kedah sow a newspapers as great as online portals? Why aren't there most activists fighting for a Orang Asli, a most marginalised community in a country. Why aren't there people championing a rubber smallholders who have been badly affected by a low rubber price. Why do not activists who have been fighting for orang utan as great as elephants additionally hold up a oil palm smallholders who humour critical mercantile problems. The estate workers when was a last time their problems made it to a newspapers?. The squalid vital conditions of a bad in Sabah, Sarawak, Kelantan as great as Kedah hardly get any attention. 20,000 fishermen in Sabah live in misery yet their voices have been never heard.
The bad have been mostly voiceless. The abounding have been damn loud.
The category order along a Kelang Valley MRT is a great example. The 50 km line runs by both abounding (TTDI, Damansara) as great as poorer (Kajang, Cheras) areas. The issues as great as impacts have been a same. Yet, 90% of a media reports have been about a impacts during Taman Tun, Kota Damansara as great as Bukit Bintang. These have been abounding people who have great entrance to media as great as politicians. Hardly any one mentions a problems in Cheras as great as Kajang (mostly poorer, Malay neighbourhoods). It is as yet it is okay for poorer people to lose their land yet a supervision must demeanour after a rich. [I am sure if we verbalise to SPAD or MRTCo, we will! get to listen to about a series of Datuks as great as Tan Sris who have exerted all sorts of pressure to divert a fixing divided their homes. The bad do not have which influence]
The PTPTN is another classic example. University students have been a absolved lot (not indispensably rich, yet privileged). we contend absolved since 80% of a youths do not even get to go to universities. They go to vocational schools or find any jobs which come by. Their challenges have been far greater, their salaries far lower as great as their lives some-more difficult. The university students during least get a higher education as great as should turn means to get improved paying jobs as great as lead improved lives than a non-graduates. As we would have noticed, a volume of time committed to a "problem" of a absolved is really high. The problems of a under-privileged non-graduates hardly capture attention.
These have been only a little examples where a issues of a abounding (and center class) get some-more than their fair share of attention. There have been most some-more cases.
The sad thing is a abounding (and a center class) mostly action as if they have been a deprived or underprivileged lot. They complain, they moan, they whine, they bitch as yet their complaint is a most estimable of supervision attention. Harmless as it might seem, this action diverts critical resources divided from a poor.
Don't get me wrong. we am not observant a problems of a abounding as great as center have been not important. They are. The abounding as great as a center class, only like everyo! ne else, have a right to voice their grievances. Unfortunately, since they have been "louder", their problems get greater courtesy than those of a poor. Poor people's problems have been mostly unattended.
The abounding (and a center class), by virtue of being improved educated, carrying improved entrance to media, being closer to a corridors of power, have been means to articulate as great as hold up causes which have been dear to them. These issues sow a media as great as capture courtesy of many. Governments regularly conflict to these. By sketch courtesy upon civic as great as center category issues, they inadvertently force a supervision to outlay some-more time as great as resources here thereby neglecting alternative critical farming as great as bad issues.
As we have pronounced earlier, a abounding being louder is only one of a most reasons since a order in between a abounding as great as a bad will not simply be bridged.
Read More @ Source Stasiun Juanda (26 Mei 2012)
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