V-Day fashion

VALENTINE Day is at the corner and young couples are busying with the preparation for the love-prone day. It's understandable that couple considered this day as special. Also it can be considered a special day for those who intend to step up relationship to their loved ones. Regardless of purpose, the aim is to pay attention on loves which can make people crazy. The small word but powerful enough to make young people mad. In fact, not only young but old ones. This culture secretly infected to the whole world, even to the dignity-centric nation like our country. There seem no preventive pills to counter the growing trend of this V-day. The young are counting the day while some conservative people are worrying with the news and witness of some activities.

Being Buddhist majority country, our country didn't afford to prevent this ill-affected day celebration as the country started to open up its economy and politic. We have to accept that the global cultural would be entering sooner or later. It will subject to the wisdom of our authority. Today, I read an article written by famous writer in the domestic media website. He highlighted the danger of openness we currently face. He brought an example to emphasis his attention. It is an advertising for a V-day entertainment show by local media agent. They lured the potential audience by boosting that the lucky winning couples will be given lucrative package such as free meeting with astrologer, free bundle of roses, pack of chocolate, fully sponsor holiday package.

He was shocked to learn such advertisement openly to the public especially to the last holiday package for couple. In Myanmar, couple are not encouraged to go silent place before they tie the knot. Also it's discourage to single woman to go alone at night time. Amid such society, a frank advertisement like that can lead our young people think of wrong-doing. He even accused the organizer that they are like legally doing prosecution business by doing so. Free hotel-room for couple means a lot to our people to understand. Imagine what if the woman is your daughter/sister/relative. I'm sure nobody would like to face such answer and will support with the writer's comment. The writer also urged authority to censor such anti-law activities. Some activists urged to boycotts this V-day celebration and threaten to take photos of participants and upload in social media website like Facebook to shame/ downgrade them.

Regardless of purpose, it's not fit with our traditional ways. We all should abandon such challenging activities within our social cycle. Meanwhile, parent and teacher should play their role in guiding what is right and wrong to their children and pupils. Otherwise, weak law-governing will quietly encourage such ill-culture and eventually our country has a risk of becoming a prosecute country as our national hero, General Aung San, said 7 decades ago. It should be seen as not a one organizer's problem but our national identity threat.

May our authority able to foresee the real threats coming to our society to prevent the bright future of our young generation. May our young people be free from dirty-minded business world. May our young students gain a necessary education/wisdom to make them classify what's right and what's wrong for them. In my opinion, the activities of V-day are more likely to become period of hells rather than dream paradise day especially for our minors.