Today, is an election day in America, November 2nd. I casted my ballot for the candidates that will represent my view points, ideologies, outlooks and of course my sense of well-being.
It is a choice that we as American make every four and five years. It is a time of reflection and a time of change if we wish to see changes made.
The ideal of an American electoral process is deeply rooted in the principles that each one of us has unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for ourselves and future generations.
These fundamental beliefs are practiced to the core where each individual American is taught since early childhood the fundamental truths of democracy the tangle notion of any thing is possible in America.
The concept of American Dream is born out out of these fundamental truths; hence, Americans are driven by the dream that equality and opportunities are real if we so choose to believe in them.
Immigrant stories of rag to riches, an African-American success story born to a Jewish mother and a Ghanian Father is able to be voted in to the highest office are real..if we choose to believe that they are indeed real.
These are after all, the stories of America and its great democratic process in practice.
It has been over 200 years where democracy is practiced through trials and errors; yet continues to be refined to become the purest of its form. The world over has tried to adopt the American democracy; yet many have failed and few have succeeded due to the simplest mindset and reasons that American democratic systems can be adopted and followed overnight.
It is nearly impossible to have democracy working properly in 5 to 10 years in place such as Cambodia...because democracy has to take root, prosper with much care.
A true democratic process must be home-grown, tailor-made, amended to fit the cultural, socio-economic situation of that country. Yet the fundamental truths are the same; but must be able to accommodate necessary changes in order to facilitate view points that are different without resorting to violence and oppression of any form on its opponents.
In that, we call "democracy" in its true sense of word.
I strongly support with the idea that it's impossible for Cambodia spending only 5 to 10 years in order to build up a fully democratic country. As what we are seeing in our society and the way people reacting with each other or the government works, it's a clear indication of how democracy our country is. Being a people of Cambodia, we should understand what democracy is, how important it is and we should learn how to analyze and work out a beter way to deal with our society now aday. Collaterally, the young generation of Cambodia should work harder to improve to our nation as well as be able to educate our next and next generation. Human resources and knowledge are the key point and the most potiental sector to generat this idea through people to people. Knowledge is the root of everything and development.
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