Position Paper 5

Name : Tengku Nor Hazlyda bt Tengku Abdullah
Matric No : 0723490

Counselors Are the Key to the Success of 1Malaysia Concept.

1Malaysia? What is it? Is it all races being together? Eat together? Live together? Learning together? Or else? 1Malaysia is the slogan that being introduced by Datuk Seri Najib Razak to define his administration. 1Malaysia’s goal is to preserve and enhance this unity in diversity which has always been our strength and remains our best hope for the future. There are eight values in 1Malaysia are Perseverance, Culture of Excellence, Acceptance, Loyalty, Education, Humility, Integrity and Meritocracy. To think about it, how we want to fulfill all the values and elements in 1Malaysia? By judging today’s world, we have to work hard for it and believe that all parties have to get along. In order to succeed the 1Malaysia concepts, I believe that counselors are the one of the key because they always deal with all parties, they understand more about diversity and they are good agent to consult the others.
As we all know, counselors always face with many clients who are from various culture, races and religion. In counseling session or when counselors dealing with their clients, they also can put elements or values of the 1Malaysia concept in their discussion and stated why it is important. In addition, counselors can talk anything as with their clients as long as they are not violating their ethics and principles. So, counselors are the best person to be the key of the success of 1Malaysia concept.
Moreover, counselors are the only professional that has principles consenting of unconditional positive regard, genuineness and empathy. Just because of these principles, counselors understand more on diversity and always accept the diversity. In fact, counselors also learn how to cope with diversity and always give full commitment in gaining trust from the others. As counselors work on the clients’ problem, they also can infuse some 1Malaysia values to the clients. Thus, it is one of the methods that can grant the success of the 1Malaysia concept.
On the other hand, some people may say that government is the right person to be the key of the succeed 1Malaysia concepts. Just because, government is the party that has strong power in consulting other people, so they are the only one who can grant the success. However, it is strongly agreed that counselors are the right person in achieving the success of 1Malaysia concept because they are the good agent to consult people. Although government has power in society, they are still a big gap in relationship between government and society. Some parties still arguing the credibility of the government and cannot follow all the government’s rules and suggestions because of differences belief in them. But counselors can get along with the differences belief in others and can convince the others to accept 1Malaysia concept with being prejudice or face any injustice issues. Therefore, counselors are the key to the success of 1Malaysia concepts.
In conclusion, counselors can take the responsibility as the key to the success of 1Malaysia concepts as they are always deal with all parties, they understand more about diversity and they are good agent to consult the others. In order to fulfill it, all parties have to work together without concern about the diversity among each other and give their best to realize this concept as all religion ask their follower to be kind to all human life.