Causes of Social Problems in Malaysia

This is my first attempt to write in English. Here it goes..

Malaysia is categorized as third world country and has received rapid growth in
socioeconomic and advance technologies. The globalization makes the world become
smaller and all the information could be obtained easily by clicking on the computers. World
without any barriers allows cultures from other countries influence the Malaysian especially
the youths. There are good and bad cultures. The social problems emerged due to bad
cultures from other countries. Cultures which we do not feed into our own cultural and
religious values. Most young generations cannot identify and analyze what are the good and
bad things. It could eliminate the moral values in each young generation.

There are several factors which trigger this phenomenon. Most people blame the parents
who are not giving their children full attention. As a mother and father, we are responsible
to teach our children how to prevent themselves from being involved in social problems
such as smoking, sex before marriage, vandalism, bullying and other negative actions.
Nowadays, the parents are going out early in the morning to go to work and reach home at
midnight. They do not have sufficient time with the children. So, who will teach them to be
good girls and boys? Who will tell them what are good and bad actions and what the effects
are if they are doing the bad things?

Most of the youth fulfill their free time watching television, playing play station games,
surfing internet, learning and trying to use a new handset, listening to music in digital MP3
player and so on. They are fast leaner and expertise in using modern technologies. The
technologies are suppose to make our life better and help us to finish our work on time.
However, the technologies are also giving the negative impacts if the users abuse the
technologies. They are straying from the actual uses of the technologies. For example;
Internet is used to find a lot of beneficial information to add to our knowledge in various
things. Using internet allows us to obtain all the information without limitation. However, we
also can search unnecessary websites such as pornography sites, heavy metal music sites,
sex sites, black metal sites and so on. Those websites are trying to influence our youth to
be rebellious teenagers!

Friends are most important supporter to the youth. They meet their friends almost every
day at school and often go out with them. Regarding this phase, the teenagers prefer to
share their problems, hobbies, happiness and sadness with their close friends. Friends are
the subjects who influence the youth in making decision, build their thinking and confidence
without limits. If they are fortunate and associate themselves with good and kind friends,
they will be inspired to be brilliant students. They recognize what are the good and bad
behaviors.

From the three factors we have discussed, we can conclude that education is the most
important agenda to prevent our young generations from being manipulated by the tough
situation. Parents should enlarge their knowledge and skills how to teach their children.
They should monitor their children from useless or harmful activities. Love your children and
develop them to be humble young generation! Therefore, education comes in two forms,
informal education from parents and friends, and education from schools, where knowledge
is gained especially in academic fields