Would you rather be the city rat or the country rat? The theme would be urban vs rural. I would rather be the city rat than the country one. Some of you may differ from me especially after reading Village by the Sea. So, the following are my reasons.
When living in an urban place or living as a city rat, we have modern-day facilities like the Internet, telephone, television etc for communication and entertainment purposes. Can we live without them? People living in urban areas lead a luxurious and economically stable life as compared to those living in rural areas. We have greater availability of modern facilities due to the advancement in technology in the city.
Furthermore, if we are living in the villages, would you be looking at what I am typing to know about my opinion for urban and rural areas? If we are living in rural areas would we be able to browse others' blogs to acquire knowledge? There are a lot more educational facilities in urban areas than in rural areas. There are also a lot more career opportunities in urban than rural areas. There are also change in the city whereas there is little in villages. Would not it be boring if there are little change in your life?
Villagers in rural areas had to worry for their financial difficulty, causing them not to have enough food, leading to the fact that they are more prone to diseases due to malnutrition. Even if they have enough, how can they ensure that they are nutritional. Whereas in city areas, people are more conscious about their health and have a wide variety of food to choose from, because of the imports of resources from many different places. However, some may argue that we will be dependent on others for resources rather than being independent whereby we will grow food for ourselves in villages. My take would be that country rats have to work in the field to get food, just food or perhaps some money. However, city rats work to get money and the company would have economic development by developing in their respective field.
Not convinced? Beg to differ? Share your views!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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Hello, Si Hao. I find your view exceptionally unique, in a positive way though. Your view on the sentence seem to be urban vs rural, as you said. However, if I were to say it in a more specific way, would it be the city rat as the richer, higher class citizens and the country rat as the poorer, lower class citizens? Its pretty interesting because my view in this sentence would be city rat living in the city with high technology, busy life and sorts and country rat living in the country with little technology developments and a slow-paced life...
ReplyDeleteHmm, I find your views very interesting plus your areas of analysis were very different from what I could have expected. Very appealing post. Reading it was a very different experience! Keep up the good job!
Regards,
Zhi Yong
Dear Sihao,
ReplyDeleteI agree that the city enables us a more comfortable and "luxurious" life. But do you feel that in the city, we are constantly trying to hide the horrors and bad things in life using technology. However, in the process, we are actually creating more disadvantages and horrors. Like when we want to eliminate inconvenience of travelling, we build cars. However these cars produce carbon dioxide which in turn cause global warming.