Monday, June 8, 2009

I rather be a city rat than the country rat

For this statement, i decide to sit on the fence as each side has its own disadvantages. Here are the reasons that led to my dcision:

If i were a country rat:

  • As a country rat, there will be very little or no technology at all. Imagine live without technology entertainment, we can only use hand-made toys like five stones as sources of entertainment. Also, without technology, we will have problems communicating as we will not have phones like what we experience in the city. The only way of communicating will be a verbal face-to-face communication.
  • For a country rat, due to the lack of resources, people could only live in short houses unlike the towering buildings we commonly see in the city. This migth result in a lack of homes as more people occupy the same amount of space compared to the city.
  • Unlike the city, a country rat will have less facilities. We will not have schools and other necessary facilities perhaps due to the low-educated government which will lead to a low literacy level for the country. The government will also not be well-educated which will result in a cycle.

As a city rat:

  • The air in the city will be very polluted, due to the harmful gases emited from cars. It is also polluted because of incosiderate smokers and the burning of wastes. The burning down of trees (deforestation) also add up to the harmful air we breath in.
  • It is mostly quite warm in the city due to too much technology, leading to globalwarming. For example, in the past, people use ccarriages as means of transportation but now, people use cars for transportation. Such unefficient change swill only bring more harm to earth and not benifit us in the long run.
  • Due to the fact that we have communication tools such as th internet, people in the city usually have lack of face-to-face communication, resulting in poor relationship. Also, with such uncertain means of communication, people get cheated by these means of communications too.

Therefore, with the points stated, i am neutral against this statement.

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