Position Paper 5

Noor Nadirah bt Zainal
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Counselors are the key to the success of the 1 Malaysia concept.

As we all know the objective of 1 Malaysia concept is to unite all of the races in Malaysia and to avoid misunderstanding among the people. Everybody have their right and dignity that need to be respected. When someone said that counselor are the key to the success of the 1 Malaysia concept, I am fully hearted agreed with them. It is because, counselors can be as a medium to unite all the races such as, Malays, Indian, Chinese and the minority races that live in Malaysia. In this perspective, counselors should move forward and take a steps to contribute something in order to make the objective of the concept that been presented by our Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak successful.

In school, counselor had the authority to consult and give counseling session to the problematic students. This is the time that we need to make the students realize that unity is important among the multiracial people. For example, if the students are being sent to the counseling session because of they involve in bullying or fighting with other different races, counselor should make them change their negative perception and make them know that they are in the same boat. If they make friends with all the races, they can avoid misunderstanding in certain issues. If they unite, more benefit that the school can get and it will also increase its performance in terms of education and sports.

Besides that, counselor tell them that the advantage of mixing with different races like they will learn Mathematics with Chinese students, English with Indians students and Bahasa Melayu with Malays students. Does it worth to get mixing?

Further more, counselors are one of the academician. Their word can be trusted by anybody. With this trust, they will implement a talk to attract people to see that 1 Malaysian is the concept to achieve the successful of our nation. Of course we don’t want the 13 May to happen again. Another example is if the counselors are giving the opportunity to get involve in the politics, I believe that the fighting cases among the politician will decrease by time to time. Nowadays we can see that many of our leader (politicians) always try to get attention by making a statements that can caused the misunderstanding among them. This is not a good example to show to other people especially students. In the television we can see that the different politics parties try to insult others. If the counselor get involve, I believe that they can become the advisor to control this problem.

Another example is the vision school. The implementation of vision school before this is to make the 3 races unite, but it seems doesn’t work because the number of students that register in that school are decrease by years. In this case if the counselor can persuade and make the parents believe that the vision school is the first steps to make our country peaceful, then it will make the counselor’s job more meaningful and it will make the counseling profession more growth and develop. We must remember that, to make 1 Malaysian concept achieve the target, it should started from the school.

On the other hand, some people might say that counselor are only responsible and can contribute something to the school field only. There are not exposed on other fields like politics and economic. It is not true, besides working at the school, they also can work in the government and private sectors, mental health, university, many more. It shows that the impact of the counselor is everywhere. The main aspect that make the counselor are success is when they can make other people listen to their words and make them gain the insight to think and wider their thinking scope.
With all the point, it is firmly stated that counselors are the key to the success of the 1 Malaysia concept.