Monday, March 24, 2008

Journal 4: Reflections on Racial Harmony


"Hi Everyone,Time seems to fly. We are now in Week 2.


For this week, you are given a link. After you have read the story, you will give your personal response.Week 2 : What you have to do:

1. Go to this link: http://sam11.moe.gov.sg/racialharmony/Click on 'Articles' and go to '2. Regardless of race' article.

2. Read the article.

3. Give your personal response to what you have just read. To help you, I have given some questions for you to give your response.

Here are the questions:

a) What do you think is 'racial harmony'?

b) How can misunderstanding among the various races arise?

c) What do you think of Rajah's solution? (He said, "We shan't be Chinese or Malay or Indian. Everyone is the same, no races at all and there will be no more fights."

d) How can we encourage people of different races to be friends?

e) What do you think our school should do on Racial Harmony Day?


In writing your personal response in your blog, please write the title : Personal Response 1 : Racial Harmony.Happy writing. Waiting eagerly to read your responses.


Regards

Mr Owen Lau

15 comments:

RynoxZero-Aloy said...

Erm......Raicial Harmony? I think it is the day where people of different races get together ....I like it because One whole day no work at school ........HAHA no homw work and ....lots of lots of FUN!

J said...

I think racial harmony is the day where all races come together and celebrate this special day. the 4 races,Chinese,Malay,Indian and the English get together. i like racial harmony because it is the day when the 4 races get together and get to know the different culture from different races. when we have racial harmony, people get along better, that prevents war. if every country has racial harmony, ther would be no war anymore. everybody can live in peace.

Regards,
Jodeen

Esmeralda said...

Hi!Today I am going to talk about Racial Harmony.Racial Harmony is when people from diffrent races get together.As most you people know,I am an Indonesian chinese,born in Jakarta.I also have bestest friends and truest friends from other races like Japanese,Australian,Singapore,Korean,Chinese,Indians even the races like me!

noobie colin said...

HI EVERYBODY.I THINK THAT RACIAL HARMONY IS A VERY GOOD HOLIDAY.IT IS A DAY THAT PEOPLE FROM OTHER RACES GET TOGETHER AND KNOW EACH ANOTHER.......ON THAT DAY NO SCHOOL, ONLY AT HOME AND PLAY ....... SO FUN I CAN`T WAIT FOR THAT DAY...

Jüstin said...

Racial Harmony Day is a day where different races of people get together to share their traditions. On that day,i think there will be no lessons. There should not be any fights and quarelling......

JuStIn ™

Lester said...

Racial harmony?.....This is the day where diff. races get together to celebrate.No HOMEWORK,No SCHOOLWORK and we can play,HURRAY!!

Lam Kai Yoon said...

i think that racial harmony is where all races come together and will not fight each other.i like it because there will be no fights between races.And it will be a school holiday for everyone.

Anonymous said...

What?racial harmony day.I think that it is a good day because everyone can play together and know each other well.

Guiying said...

Hi Mr Lau,

I think racial harmony is when people of all races get together. They get together for : not to argue nor fight, but to make friends with one another, try different dishes and play traditional games.I think people should try as much as possible to make friends with people from other races, just like my best friends, Surabhi, Wei wen and I. What I mean is that : you see, Surabhi is a Hindi girl and
Wei wen and I are chinese girls and we are best friends! If children like us can be good friends with their schoolmates of another race, why can't adults be friends with people of another race, too! Come on, friendships starts in school!

Regards,
Guiying
Always Smile! :)

yingshan said...

I think racial harmony is when people of many different races come togother to celebrate this special day.Singapore is a multi-racial country and i am glad to say that the different races do not start any riots or fight and arguements.During racial harmony,we get to konw more about the different cultures and when we know more abut their culture,we can get along better.



yingshan

Elizabeth said...

Myself i think rcial harmony is when all four races come together to celebrate this special day.Myself some different races from other countries like Australians,Singaporeans,Indonesianchinese,Japanese and many more.I hope that everyone will live in peace and I aslo hope that people will remember this speciall day.

Lisa- said...

I think racial harmony day is when four races of people,the Chinese,Indians,Malays and also Europeans,get together.Racial Harmony day is a very joyful day because we can get to know lots of people from other countries.And also,teachers will not give us any homework at that day!Isn't it great?!

~/`(0Wei.Wen0)/`~ said...

Hi! I think that Racial Harmony Day is a day where all the races come together to share their culturs and belives.I like Racial Harmony Day because we get to wear our traditional costumes to school,and we get to watch special concerts.I think that Raju was wrong to say that we shoud not have any races at all becaues otherwise the world would be a very boring palce!There would be no festivals and when you go to work you'll only be able to get the weekends off!You'll be working like crazy!

Amaris Song (: said...

i think racial harmony is the day where all races in Singapore get together,they get to know each other cultures . on that day teacher advice us to wear other race's costume to school. and of course NO HOMEWORK!I LOVE RACIAL HARMONY!!!
REGARDS,
Amaris

Meryl said...

Racial Harmony. Quite ok lah. Its a day when the 4 races have lotsa fun. Trying cultures. And saying hi. Chinese europian malay indian that's the four races.

HAPPY RACIAL HARMONY.