Speech Competition

Name : Giovani Gabrielle Susanto

School : Cahaya Bangsa Junior High School

The Honourable the Judges of the Competition

The Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen
And My Beloved Friends

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen

First of all let’s say thanks to God, because of His blessing and mercy I can follow this
competition in a great condition Second, I would like to say thanks for the time and
opportunity that given to me, so in this nice occasion I can make a video to deliver my
speech. Thus, I would like to say thank you to all of you for watching this video in this
beautiful occasion.
My name is Giovanni Gabrielle Susanto and today I am representing Cahaya Bangsa School
as a participant in this speech competition with the tittle:

UNITY IN DIVERSITY: We are One

So, I hope you can enjoy my speech that I will tell you in a second.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

"Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our
civilization." - Mahatma Gandhi. From that quote, I would like to say that Unity in Diversity
is a phrase or may I say concept that refers and explain about togetherness of in spite of the
presence of huge diversity. Unity in Diversity also based on where the individual or social
cultural differences in physical attributes, skin colour, castes, creed, cultural and religious
practices etc. It is crucial and very important to respect and support each other no matter
what our culture, background, gender, orientation, or other differences may be. I’m sure
we’ve seen lots of cultural differences in our daily life, especially when we live here in
Indonesia, a country with hundreds of different cultures. It may seem really positive and all
around good, but in the mean time, cultural difference also create a lot of conflicts, such as
racisms and cultural harassment.
Well Ladies and Gentlemen,
This kind of conflict usually take off in an arena with people that still has lots of stereotypes
and ethnocentrism toward other culture and thinks that their culture is higher and better
than other culture that is around them. And me myself have seen these type of behaviour
around me and I think that it is time for us, especially the young generation to make a
difference toward this bad habits around us. Starting of with spreading education, a lot of
people still lacks in this type of education and I think it is the best for all of us to improve the
education about tolerance and respect towards other people, we have to start educating
people that still has bad stereotypes and tell the that all culture are the same and we need
to respect and tolerate each other, we have to start doing this especially to parents so that
they can also teach their children to respect each other and destroys these stereotype so
that they can actually build good habits to their family. And also, teachers in school also
need to really teach their students about these, because it’s not rare for us to see lots of
bullying in school and the main reason of that happening is because of cultural differences
and social status.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

That is why this thing is really important to teach in every school so that students can
spread this behaviour and respect each other with the difference that they have. Its also not
just for students, but this is also for everyone including adults, cause adults also have
conflicts with this problem especially when this include social status whereas people in
upper class was treated like a king and people with lower class was just ignored and treated
badly. It is very important for us to spread awareness about this and start to educate
everyone of us in this country. We, as the next generation of this country have to improve
the quality of human resources in this country, because Indonesia is a really wonderful and
unique country that is filled with hundreds of culture and we have to take a step ahead with
utilising advanced technology around us to educate everyone in this country. If unity is
shown by all of us, it will give us global recognition that is very advantageous for us. And last
but not least, Unity in Diversity will help in growth and development of our wonderful
country.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I would like to conclude my speech with this phrase “United we are strong, Divided we fall”.
This concept of Unity in Diversity instruct and teaches us that although we are from
different castes, creeds, races or religion, these variation and difference cannot keep us
divided and we should always be united for the better of our beloved country and it’s
people.
I think that is all from me, I hope that this speech can bring all of us all together as what I am
presenting today. It starts with you. If not you, then who?

Thank you and have a nice day