Society Changes

My cousin asked me a history question. "How did riots in 1950-1959 show the dissatisfaction of the locals?" He is currently a secondary two student. Politically correct answers aside, there is more to it.

From my perspective, those days when men wore nothing but white shirts or singlets and everybody's hair was black in colour were pretty direct. People's minds' were less complicated compared to now.

But because they were less complicated, that complicated matters. Races were divided. Even within races, the different dialects are also separated from one another.

There was Hokkien street, Teochew Street, Hong Kong street etc. Xenophobia was evident during those black-and-white days. People tried solving problems with their fists.

Of course, fists can't solve problems. If they do, A Maths and F Maths would not have existed in schools. Humans seemed to be more hot-tempered back then.

The Gen X and Gen Y generation have not as simple-minded as their peers 30 or 40 years ago. Society is always changing. It is a fact that we are also changing.

The bottomline is how should we change to adapt to society?