Sunday, October 25, 2009

Ks 44290 melaporkan: social problem caused by earthquake

Earthquake one of disaster which always occur at “Lingkaran Api Pasifik” area. One of the nearest countries we can found facing this kind of disaster is Indonesia. Recently Indonesia or be more specific a place called as Padang, had facing this disaster which causing a lot of trouble to them. In this essay I will discuss more on social problem which causing by this disaster or earthquake.

One of the social problem can arise because of the earthquake is the norms in the society had drastically change. We can see during the earthquake happen many of people run go to the safer place to save their life. The good norms which exist in their life before the disaster happen had transformed to be bad norms. We can see the people transform through many ways such as they be much more selfish, not concern about other people anymore, take advantage to other people and so on. For example a good person become a stealer when he or she in a threaten situation; he or she steal foods at shop in order to survive during earthquake when he or she have a limited option to survive. Sometimes in a worst cases the society which facing the earthquake killed each other because of they need to compete among them over the small food. The good manners such as cooperation, kind heart, sympathize and so on not exist anymore in that society because of they need save their live first than thinking about other people. So that we can see that earthquake can contributed to the social inequality in some countries.

The other social problem can occur during the earthquake is the family structure can go down. We can see if the earthquake happen at the society which has the high population of people it can give the destructive impacts towards the large scale of family members. We can witness many people will lost their family members. Sometimes a family will lost the father, sometimes will lost the mother, sometimes their children will kill and in some cases the whole family can killed at the same time. So that after the earthquake those who lost family members will be affected and will facing the difficult time to build up their life in the future. For some children who lost their parents they need to struggle and learn independently how to survive and build up the new life. In some cases the children who don’t have family will be the victim for the human trafficking syndicate, sometimes they will be manipulated to be a street beggar and so on. When all of this happen to the children it can causing a lot of problem in the future for some countries such as that countries will lost the higher quality of the future generation.

Next social problem can exist because of the earthquake is financial crisis. As we now when the earthquake happens it can bring the greatest damage in the large scale for that place. Many properties such as building, houses, shop, car, and many more valuable things will damage or lost. So that, the victim of earthquake needs to use the large number of money in order to recover all of the damaged properties. They need to build up the new houses, they need to buy the new clothes, need money to buy a food and so on. the government also need to spent a lot of money to help the victim of earthquake and this situation will affected the budget of that countries because after the earthquake happen the government need to spent a million or sometimes until the billion ringgit to recover back the facilities in that particular area.

So that as a conclusion, earthquake can contributes a lot of social problem. Beside the social problem I had mention above, earthquake also can contribute into the falling of the education structure (children cannot go to the school, school building had damage, etc.), the diseased will be spread widely in that society, and also people cannot doing the routine life or maybe can be called as their socialization will be limited (cannot go to work, cannot shopping at shopping complex, can be socialize with other people as usual, etc.)

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