Certain of our Pacific Neighbours have a lot of National Pride. Pride for their country, their infrastructure, a desire for positive development and overall pride in their very own existance, to be called a Local.. and it shows in the way they treat their cities as their own and their decendants. Cultivated positively and if embraced by all including our politicians, , this attitude would result in a lot of positive development.
the simple actions in life is driven by a feeling of belonging and ownership. Littering, mending of our roads, landscaping, the list is endless. As the chinese proverb goes, a journey of a million miles begins with the first step. As responsible adults, it should be desire to instill, develop and encourage this sort of mindframe in our nation and especialy growing youths and look forward to the days when we can walk our streets with pride and hold our head high.
National Pride
Sat, 09/19/2009 - 14:20
I like the tone of patrotism expressed however; one needs to look at the differnce between commonalities in same lauguage and oneness of the specific groups of people within the setting. Other smaller Island states has oneness or very similar lauguages, places like Honiara or our neigboring Melanesian countries lack this similararity, in all we are not but one peoples hence; the varying views, ways and up bring. My point being the lack of care towards Honiara being "our place"
I don't think a sense of Honiara being 'our place' would make any difference. I don't litter whether I'm in Sydney, Honiara or Hong Kong. People don't litter and vandalise things because they don't care about Honiara, they just don't care.
BTW - an interesting note - having more garbage bins does not mean less litter. The North Sydney council got rid of garbage bins because they use to overflow and rubbish got blown everywhere. Now there are no rubbish bins in North Sydney - and NO rubbish - everyone takes it home with them.
it is difficult to teach an old dog new tricks....is another true saying. I agree with Roropau - we need to start somewhere, the most logical place is at home and with your own kids....no torowe rubbish olobaot...you drill that in them, they drill that in their friends and finally everyone leaves happily ever after - because they take all their rubbish home!
But wait a minute - 10 years time sounds like a realistic time frame....would RAMSI be gone by then?
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