Demonstration
A group of Samoan women approach me. They ask me if I want to participate their demonstration.
I ask them why they go on demonstration. They tell me that amongst all the ethnic groups in New Zealand, they are singled out by the government. They don’t receive equal benefits and treatments from the government as other ethnic groups do. They want equal treatments.
‘That’s fair enough!’ I think. I join them on the demonstration. Being a minority ethnic group myself, I have sympathy towards them.
I soon regret having participated the demonstration afterwards. I have had the chance to discover the reason as to why the government treat them differently: they contribute nothing to the society. In other words, they give nothing. As a result, the government believes that they’ve worked their own way towards expecting nothing in return.
posted by Passion @ 9:19 am
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I can find two pieces of materials from which this dream was woven.
The first is that a friend of mine from Wellington told me yesterday that he is going to Samoa next week to attend a conference.
The second is a conversation I had last night with my husband. I said to him that time has come for me to participate in volunteer work as I started to have a dire need to give something back to the society. He suggested that I can consider doing youth line at weekends and evenings to help young people.
A correction - my friend is not going to Samoa for a conference. He will be an translator in a court hearing. (I got it mixed up because he has just come back from conferences from other countries.)
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