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Self-reliance

I grow up under the influence of chinese society, therefore I cannot agree to this philosophy. Maybe it is because we are really family-oriented. Unlike the americans, Chinese people always put their family on the first priority. It is common to see people in hong kong live with their family till they get married. Not saying that we are not capable to take care of ourself, but you know Hong Kong is a much much smaller place than the US ,and so it is remarkably expensive to rent an apartment (see we only lives in apartment) which is not a 18 yrs old or a college student can afford. Moreover, your parents are the closest people to you on Earth, would you really want to leave them alone and never come back?

ESL 360 (2)

Should states provide free services- such as education and healthe care- to illegal aliens and their children?

A BIG FAT NO! As you said they are illegal, which means they do not contribute anything to the country at all! Providing free services to them is like spending taxpayer's money to nowhere, in fact they would take away the potential development of the society which is the last thing government wants to do. Moreover, if they want to get the benefit from government, they should follow the regular procedure because breaking the rules are definitely not acceptable. There is a similar situation happened in hong kong a couple years ago. Lots of pregnant women from Mainland China came to hong kong and gave birth to babies. The only reason they were doing that was to let the baby become a resident of hong kong, since the benefit in hong kong for babies are way better than China. This action irritated lots of expected mothers in hong kong and turned out there was a huge protest against those mainland illegal children. I think this shows a great example that we should NOT provide free services to those illegal alliens.

ESL 360

What's good and what's bad about majority rule?

Majority rule is the way to determine what the decision is as a group, which the minority follows the majority will. It is usually presented in voting and sees which option has more votes. You can always see this happened in commercial world, political world or even within family. This shows that the majority rule is both a written and unwritten law that most people fallowed.

Majority rule is significant because it shows what most people want. Following that option they picked would definitely satisfy the major group. For example, the United States presidential election is carry out in the form of voting and even though their vote percentage is close (relatively), the society would go with the higher one.

However, the majority rule has its disadvantage. It cannot satisfy every single one in the group. Let's say the presidential election again. I am sure that people who have picked McCain are not happy to the result for sure. This explains even the majority rule is not perfect; there is no way to get a win-win situation every time.

I found it is ironic that people promote the majority rule but at the same time advocating the minority rights, isn’t that contradicts with what they say?