Pain Truth 7

"MYANMAR need not apply......". It's an advertising page of a local newspaper for a job offer by a company. What a daring page is it? What an abusive manner does it contain? Have you ever find such thing in your life? Probably No, isn't it? Why an editor of this paper allow such ridiculous thing? May be it's just a minor case for him or any body else other than Myanmar citizen. I am shocked and really upset to learn that page. I could do nothing but can't stop keep thinking of it.

What if it is other country other than Myanmar? Anything can happen to either this company or newspaper publisher. We, Myanmar, are naturally genial and keep silent even when they are treated in a different categories by locals or colleagues. Why does it happen to us like that? Silent doesn't mean we are people of patient. I do believe that it is because of lacking English proficiency skills. The circumstance in our country forced us to emigrate to seek a greener pasture without proper preparation. To make it worse, our education is not good enough to struggle in an alien environment. As a result, we are constantly bullied by other migrants and locals. It's unavoidable when we are not mastering English.

I understand that the above job advertising do so, by citing our citizen's poor English. It's too pain to be criticized publicly. Hard to swallow because it's hard truth. I frequently read local news that is related to my fellow citizen. Whatever we are concern, the journalist/ writer would write that the fellow is trying to explain with their halting English. I myself is poor at English and I agree that my English is not as good as their primary school student's English. But I believe that mastering English alone is not good enough for a person to excel in the job. Let me draw one example to proof this. Japanese and Korean are not mastering in English generally. We all the world know that but we don't dare to underestimate them as they are leading nations of technology. It's good enough to accept my claim that English alone can't make a person perfect.

Then what are we missing? Yes we miss a good education, strong technology, innovative, entrepreneurship, research and development, above all, we are lacking to amend ourselves for the sake of nation's development. At the end of the day, we dramatically became a victim of a bad system. As long as we don't change our flawed system, we are continuously going down until we hit the hell. Hopefully the relevant authorities do understand the actual situation and try to put our nation back on a right track.

May our younger generation able to access a good education so that they can compete their counterparts from other nations in the future. It's most important because sooner or later they'll be handed over the power of handling our nation. Please do think carefully now. Otherwise you better prepare for chaos days of your old time in life before you lay at your tomb.