Youth against corruption

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The role of Youth against the rampant corruptions in the nation
"The youth are the pillar of the nation"
We feel good to hear something good, something nice about our nation. For instance, the whole nation celebrates when Manny Pacquiao won the bout against his opponent. Though my stay in this country is just over two years and few months, it is long enough to immersed myself to the culture and people as much as I could, knowing that I don’t have all my life to experience! Now, I have so many pare and mare. Growing old with them allows me to observe many aspects of their lives. All my pare and mare are from ordinary class and I strongly believe that rest of the people are not so much differ from them. All mga kaibigan are generous and very considerate! I have been wondering how such corruption creep in to the Filipino people. "Economy our friend and foe at the sametime"
The forum on “Corruption” on 9th July 2008 at Salakot, UTS Dasmarinas, answers some of my wondering questions. The corruptions creep in through Spaniard and ‘pass it on’ down to the present time. This is simply because, those who enjoy the luxury life out of the corruptions don’t want to give up their comforts. They can’t compromise their luxury life for the truth. Now, it is deeply implanted in the heart of many and becomes a norm now. In India too, corruptions are rampant and the gap between rich and poor are widening each passing day.
Now, the hope of the nation rest upon the youth of today.
One very good thing about youth is flexibility – flexibility for a change, courage to face challenges to tread the un-treaded path. However, young people will also tread the same path unless they are caution. The young people should be taught how to be nationalistic and embrace our rich cultural values. Our focus as a curriculum developer should try to rediscover the pre-colonial life. We can make use of the multimedia available today such as video, newspapers, radio, internet, fashion etcetera etcetera. “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Pro. 6:22). If we could make our youth aware of the evilness of the corruptions and its consequences, our youth will not strive for the selfish ambition. A sense of community should develop among our youth and individualism has to be minimize if not eradicate.

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