The BBC article, "Bangalore - City in beta", makes me think about the problem about developing between technology and people in Bangalore that seems to be the same problem as in my home town, Bangkok.
The article shows three aspects of the Bangalore city of India, which has grown up rapidly in bussiness and innovation, but there still has many poor people are left there. One of the aspects is about the private companies should help the poorer. Another aspect is the culture change because Bangalore contains more multicultural people that makes bangalore cannot
develop as fast as many people think. From the reported, Solomon Benjamin said " I think the argument about Bagalore changing too fast is a false argument"( ¶ 21 ). The last aspect is Bagalore should unite people in the city to build the city that is worked for them.
In my opinion, this problem can happen in many developing and develpoed cities. Bangkok, which is the most developed city in Thailand, but there are still many poor people and slums seems to have the same condition as in Bangalore because I can not obviously see any private sectors trying to help poorer societies in my home town. Moreover, people who live in Bangkok are diverse bankground because Bangkok has many good facilities and good transportations which make Thai people move to live here than any other cities in Thailand. Thai goverment still does not have a plan to lead all Thai people in the same direction as Bangalore can not do. In conclusion, We should not only improve technology, but also develop people who live there too so that we can help each other both goverment and private sectors to lead multi cultural people to only one goal, building the most-liked town for everyone . __________
References
Jamillah Knowles "Bangalore - City in beta"( 2009, October 27 ) BBC News. Retrived October 27, 2009 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8293648.stm
Tuesday 27 October 2009
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I'm strongly agree with you that the government shouldn't focus development on one propose. Economic is just only one part of developing country. I think there are much more important aspect to focus on advance such as quality of life; basic need of people. If people would not happy with advance, why have we develop for?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. We should improve every sides at the same time but I have a point to ask. I think some private companies do a lot of project to improve city such as growing tree but our city still be not good. My question is what they should do to improve city?
ReplyDeleteI strongly agree with both of you.I also think that the more quickly material advancement, the lower spiritaual advancement. they may be focus on his business in the high building, but forget to look around the people around them. I strongly agree that the richer should help the poorer. At least give a chance to them to concern other people not only business.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everybody that the government and big private companies should cooperate to improve our society in many aspects both education and basic needs because these are their responsibility. The government should take action to improve people's quality of life, while big private companies should return their profit to the society. However, the most important thing is everybody especially poor people has to help themselves first because nobody can help you forever.
ReplyDeleteI strongly agree with everyone here. The country want to develop we can't just attention to the economic develop, we also need to take care the citizen too. Like Tan said that we need to focus on quality of life and basic need of people.
ReplyDeleteI would have chosen exactly the same words from Solomon Benjamin to quote as Euy: "I think the argument about Bagalore changing too fast is a false argument"(¶ 21).
ReplyDeleteThe city is changing rapidly, as is Bangkok, but that is not a bad thing: it's a good thing for everyone, even if it creates problems along the way.
An excellently chosen quotation.