RE: Debate Forum - Week 5 - Indigenous Reconciliation
If am made the president of my country today I will among other issues make sure that I made everyone especially indigenous people to see themselves as stakeholders in the development of our nation. Although my country is currently divided along ethnic and religious lines but if given the opportunity to serve today, I will first and foremost bring ten leaders of each ethnic group under my cabinet and ask each of them to establish an office where their kinsman can easily approach them and drop their challenges from where it will get to the government. Job creation will also be a tool to be deployed in tackling ethnic challenges as I will make ethnic group leaders responsible for the welfare of their people. To encourage togetherness, I will Institute sports competitions and the ethnic groups and make our educational system to teach the cultures and languages of other ethnic group to children from basic to post secondary schools.
I'm curious if there is a huge issue with people being dependent upon your government and if, as president, you would focus on teaching people how to be independent, ensuring that they have land, tools, skills and resources to be independent and shrink your government to accommodate your population not really needing you any more. Is this a viable strategy to also help reduce or eliminate cultural and ethnic divides within your country as the violent coercion of the state would be significantly reduced as a result?
Yes so much dependence on government to provide everything is one major issue. If given the opportunity, youths will be made to acquire skills that will make them self dependent. It's said that an idle mind is the devil's workshop.
Most criminal activities that are done under ethnicity when properly viewed are aimed at satisfying one or two individuals needs of the criminals which clearly shows that no ethnic group teams up against another all things being equal.
To me, once most people especially youths are gainfully engaged, the ethnic divides will naturally die.