Social Ills: Illegal Street Racing..."Rempit"

Illegal Street Racing may be a "quick rush" but it is illegal and deadly. A few seconds of fun may lead to serious injury or death to you, your passengers, or an innocent bystander. It may also lead to criminal prosecution, jail time, and hefty fines. This is just for street racing. If someone crashes, and someone is injured or killed, you could be arrested. In addition, many agencies and municipalities are enacting law to make simply being at a street race a convictable offense. Many are also seizing and crushing vehicles impounded at street races. What does this mean? This means that if you are at a street race, driving or not, you can be arrested and your vehicle impounded, seized, and crushed. If your vehicle is financed, you are still responsible for the payments, regardless of whether your vehicle was seized or not. This means you make payments on a crushed car!

Vandalism

Vandalism is not a new phenomenon affecting Malaysia. It has been one of the outcomes of the current social problems affecting younger generations in Malaysia today. Although the issue and the basic understanding of vandalism is known to every Malaysian, it has not motivated public, government, professionals or academicians to produce further research and studies regarding this issue in the urban open space environment.

The results of vandalism in Malaysia or in other countries can be seen in a variety of locations: at bus stops; on signage and billboards; on walls at selected buildings in neighbourhood areas; and also on public facilities in parks and urban open space areas. Vandalism and graffiti may occur in the most unthinkable places, on signage, building walls, bus stands,on plants and more. Absence of graffiti, damage and litter may indicate a cared-for environment, and a cared-for environment may suggest that it is safe for the community to use.

Gangsterism...

Gangsterism is common in a developing nation such as Malaysia and we have heard a lot about it occurring in schools. It has been reported that in developed countries, schoolchildren are increasingly involved in gangs.

To curb this social ill, parents, educators and society at large should be aware of what is going on among our youths. Though there are various psychological and physical factors that cause a person to choose to become a gang member, here are some basic suggestions for parents/guardians to help nurture their children with love and respect.Gangsters are a threat to society and you can be considered a gangster if you are involved in any of these activities:

-Extort money from shop owners, hawkers and the like.
-Receive payment for threatening others or to beat someone up.
-Protect/cover-up gambling, prostitution, and drug trafficking syndicates.
-Ransom people for money.
-Be a part of organised crime.
-Force anyone to join a gang and its illegal activities

What is bullying??

Bullying is when someone keeps doing or saying things to have power over another person. Some of the ways they bully other people are by: calling them names, saying or writing nasty things about them, leaving them out of activities, not talking to them, threatening them, making them feel uncomfortable or scared, taking or damaging their things, hitting or kicking them, or making them do things they don't want to do.

Have any of these things happened to you? Have you done any of these things to someone else? Really, bullying is wrong behaviour which makes the person being bullied feel afraid or uncomfortable

Why do some people bully?

There are a lot of reasons why some people bully.

They may see it as a way of being popular, or making themselves look tough and in charge. Some bullies do it to get attention or things, or to make other people afraid of them. Others might be jealous of the person they are bullying. They may be being bullied themselves.Some bullies may not even understand how wrong their behaviour is and how it makes the person being bullied feel.

Who should be blamed??

Moral decay among the youth is the most serious problems that we are facing now. We also blame mass media and internet as the factors that influence our youth. Don’t we ever think that we as the parents and guidance are the one who are very close to them? Even though we are unable to be with them for the whole day, but as the effective and responsible parents, they will use the precious time even it is just only 3 to 4 hours to spend their times with the children. Talk to them softly and tell them what is the good and bad behaviors so they can think positively and being
assertive when come to the negative behaviors and will be not influence by
it.

Depression..why it is happening?

Children who were less socially competent in childhood were more likely to have symptoms of anxious or depressed mood in adolescence. Similarly, young people who were less socially competent in adolescence were at greater risk for symptoms of anxiety and depression in young adulthood. The findings remained the same when the researchers took into account some other possible explanations, such as intellectual functioning, the quality of parenting, social class, and such problems as fighting, lying, and stealing. And the results were generally the same for both males and females

Alcohol Abuse-Dont waste your life with this thing!

Alcohol is a leading cause of death among youth, particularly teenagers. It contributes substantially to adolescent motor vehicle crashes, other traumatic injuries, suicide, date rape, and family and school problems. Children who are drinking alcohol are more likely to report academic problems, substance use, and delinquent behavior in both middle school and high school. By young adulthood, early alcohol use was associated with employment problems, other substance abuse, and criminal and other violent behavior.Young people who begin drinking before age 15are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin drinking at 21.Many effects of the alcohol if the youth are drinking continuosly that can be effected tp nervous system ant health problems.

Pregnancy Before Marriage

Early marriage affects women's health status adversely. A vast number of girls are married at the teenage. It leads to teenage pregnancy and various physiological problems. Thus, young girls are introduced to the sexual life and to the reproduction processes at the teenage. Because of malnutrition, over burden of work illiteracy, ignorance of the sex-behavior these pregnant girls take high risk of life.More than that the teenagers nowadays are lack of the moral values to avoid this problem happen in their life.

Gambling

Characters of the gamblers..please take note!

Lying
Compulsive gamblers usually try to hide their problem from their spouses, families, colleagues and friends.

They may lie about the extent of their gambling debts or to explain their gambling outings. They may even claim to have won money when in fact they have lost.

Borrowing money
What do compulsive gamblers do to get out of financial difficulties caused by gambling?

They borrow. From family, friends, colleagues, even strangers, often hiding the reason why they need the money. Then, they start gambling again to "make up" their losses.


Betting more and more money
Compulsive gamblers are a little like people with alcohol or drug problems - they're constantly looking for ways to increase the dose.

This means betting more and more money to achieve the "high" they seek.

Watch out the robber around you...

‘Rob’ is the root word to the word robbery. Usually, people that do the robbery will face the big problem with their future whether, difficult to get the job, or will lost the trust of others. Robbery is the criminal problem, which means steal money or property from a person of place without owner permission using violent or threats. Nowadays, teenagers also involved in robbery cases. They act without think properly the effect of their action. The victims of this robbery not just to the rich people, but it also to the middle and poor people. The robber usually treat the person who they want to rob using many tricks. The victim that was robbed by the robber is a spectacular victim. Based on the scenario todays, teenagers that robbed the people, was train to be rich at short period. They do not have effort to develop theirself by their own.

Do You Know Loafing???

Hi everybody...We meet again. By this week, our topic is about loafing among the teenagers. Loafing can be defined as spending time idly or unproductively. It most related to the teenagers that still in the school. Usually, teenagers was loafed at mall, bus station, toilet and etc. They involved in this problem because of their attitude, besides is the one way to run from their personal problems. As a result, they failed to attend their class session. Other than that, the loafing problem always related to the rear class because they rarely get full attention from class teacher. Futhermore, the student in the class, was lazy to study especially tough subjects. All these factors above contribute the rising of loafing problem among teenagers. Several factors influenced the loafing symptom happened as listed below:

• Teenagers attitude
• Easy to influence to the surrounding
• Personal problems (family problem)
• Influenced to the close friend.

AIDS and HIV..destroy our future

Reported HIV infections have close relations with individual behaviors and lifestyle. It has been confirmed that the two major ways of infections are through sexual relations and sharing of drug injection needles. Social illness problems arising from moral decadence among youth that could lead to the spread of HIV becomes more obvious and worrying. A research on the youth loitering (“lepak”) behaviors that has been conducted in 1994 reveals that 18% out of 6,110 youth respondents has had the experience of having free sex, 14% has had drug abuse experience. A research on youth and AIDS that has been conducted in 1996 on 4,347 general youth with ages between 13 – 25 revealed that 6% has had free sex, 5% had been involved in drug addiction and 31% in smoking. The negative development above if not controlled urgently will become worst and will further worsen the AIDS problem. Therefore special preventive steps with concentration on youth should be taken.

Drug Addict

Reported HIV infections have closely relationship with individual behaviours and lifestyle. It has been confirmed that the two major ways of infections are through sexual relations and sharing of drug injection needles. Social illness problems arising from moral decadence among youth that could lead to the spread of HIV becomes more obvious and worrying. A research on the youth loitering (“lepak”) behaviors that has been conducted in 1994 reveals that 18% out of 6,110 youth respondents has had the experience of having free sex, 14% has had drug abuse experience. A research on youth and AIDS that has been conducted in 1996 on 4,347 general youth with ages between 13 – 25 revealed that 6% has had free sex, 5% had been involved in drug addiction and 31% in smoking. The negative development above if not controlled urgently will become worst and will further worsen the AIDS problem. Therefore special preventive steps with concentration on youth should be taken.

Troubled youth

Youth or adolescence are crucial stages in human development. In our society, most adolescents grow up in a healthy environment, integrate well into society and are able to have their needs met. The majority obtain the resources they require for their health, safety, well-being and development from their parents, families and communities.

However, a minority of youth or adolescents are unfortunately living in great distress. Their problems are sometimes severe enough to impede their development as well as their ability to find a place in society. These difficulties may take on several forms:

A neglected child who does not receive vital healthcare;
Another who is left unattended for long periods of time (considering the child’s age);
A young victim of sexual abuse;
A mistreated child;
A teenager with behavioural problems or a drug problem;
A suicidal youth.
The list is long, and behind every case are a young person and family in distress

Introduction

Our teenager are the most important assets for our nation because they will become leaders and lead Malaysia to achieve vision 2020. The social problems that we are facing nowadays are always blamed on our youth as they are individuals who are involved in narcotics, cigarettes, alcohol or sex and pregnancy before marriage. More than that, our youth is preferred to do "something-new" without knowing their behaviour either positive or negative effects.

However, it is not the best way to solve the social problems if we keep blaming our youth. Parents, community members or government could seek and work together to implement the new path to reduce or to eliminate the factors which contribute to increasing social problems among our youth in Malaysia

Social Issues among Youth

In the past years and today, Malaysian youths had been involved in various kinds of activities which apparently led to the creation of too many impressions given by our nation and also by the media. From the mid in year 1990s, various music subcultures such as rap, hip-hop, heavy metal and punk have taken the centre stage of personifying the rhetoric concerning social problems among the youths. Among those, Black Metal, a sub genre of heavy metal, is the latest of these subcultures that has gradually captured the interest of Malaysian youths and subjected to the scrutiny of the local media. The question now is whether this subculture had created a moral panic in Malaysia as the local media began to give unwarranted publicity about the Black Metal subculture. Therefore, it also will look at the effects of Black Metal subculture among today's youths and the role of media in it. The issue is to find out if this culture had caused a moral panic in Malaysia by analysing the effects of this culture and the role of media.Above are the list of social problems involved by our youths:

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