Student activism

Student activism

I want to talk about students activism in this week. Student activism is a Social movement group and action by students. In most of the cases it is activated by the student, however, there are also cases that it is guided by, government, political parties, media, Columnist, etc.

Student activism happens a lot in Asia society and it often becomes a huge thing. When university student group up with ideas and actions there are so many cases result to affect the whole society. In my opinion, there are two reasons why in Asia culture we honor and respect the people with education a lot. There was a ranking from the history of China, Education, farmer, labor, and businessman.  This ranking refers the traditional value of people. Although today, business ma is what really effect the most. In people’s mind education is still the highest value. This culture value deeply involved in 5000 years history in Chinese culture and will not easily remove. In this background, the voice from the student will be taken and respect. That’s why we student activism is taking really seriously here.

The other reason I think why student activism is big in Chinese culture is because that the society is still changing a lot. After ww2, the western society formation had spear all over the world. Today most of the Asia nation is taking democracy as the social type. China although still using Communism, but the market and the core value of the society is al changing(faster or not, I am not too sure). Taiwan, the place where I come from taking Democracy as out society type however it just abuts 50 years. There are a lot of elder resident who was living in the dictatorship world before. The fighting between freedom and order is always a huge fight on the table. Therefore different voice and activism are never ended.

I personally think the student activism is a prove of the improvement of the society. It shows that people in the nation are actually thinking and brave enough to take the action. But, there are just so many cases that those activists are using by political parties or government and only to make their election or business get better. I hope the free and opener media in the future will finally bring more fair and a little bit of justice into the eyes of people and I hope the student activism can go to a direction with much more open and clean.