Political situation
Author: Zheng Baosheng
2021-07-03 07:00
Last update date: 2021-07-03 07:00
On the second anniversary of the turmoil of the amendment, a large number of young people and students took to the streets to demonstrate on that day. Many of the establishments were attributed to insufficient national education. The young people were radical and refused to communicate. Some even said that they would "give up young people."
Organizational youth have their own views on this. Some people think that it is not that young people are unable to communicate, but that organizational communication methods need to be reformed. "In the era of information explosion, the methods that worked before may no longer be effective."
Chen Zhihao believes that it is not that young people do not know China, but that their perceptions are biased. The influence of the Internet is one of the most important factors.
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In the era of information explosion, young people have biased access to information
Chen Zhihao is the executive vice chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Youth Federation, the Hong Kong convener of the Youth Research Institute, and the vice chairman of the Hong Kong Youth Current Affairs Commentator Association. It is natural for him to talk about youth issues.
However, he indicated at the beginning of the interview that it was not young people who had the problem.
"In this era of information explosion, young people have been exposed to a lot of online information since they were young, and they are also used to discussing with other people on the Internet." In Chen Zhihao's eyes, young people do not know China, but their perceptions are biased. Influence is one of the most important factors.
Internet amplifies extreme speech tragedy news messages sarcasm negative
Many social researchers have pointed out that the emergence of the Internet has made communication with people brief, instant and emotional, lacking analysis and discussion.
Chen Zhihao also pointed out that the characteristics of the Internet amplify extreme and emotional speech, and even distort facts. If the Internet is flooded with false information, the Internet will lose its function of normal discussion and public opinion.
He mentioned a recent murder case in Ningbo where an African-American teaching assistant killed a female college student at the same school for unsuccessful courtship. This news item contained many negative comments, such as "It's rare to marry in the United States and refuse? ", "There is an inside story!", "The female student must have a problem." Chen Zhihao said with emotion. From this tragic message, we can see that many people are now psychologically distorted.
Call on young people to have healthy values, speak rigorously and maintain respect
He believes that young people should have healthy values, including misfortunes, not sprinkling salt on wounds, thinking not too extreme, and maintaining mutual respect among people.
He advised young people not to make comments on the Internet without actual evidence. For example, the young girl in Tianshuiwei was infected with the epidemic earlier, and if the source is still not known, they should not be preconceived and insist that the infection was from the mainland.
Having said this, Chen Zhihao lamented that young people have irrational negative emotions toward China, and they are widespread.
Support the Internet real-name system to allow speakers to understand that speech has consequences
He pointed out that some people are "haters", and others have to attack everything they do. This culture exists all over the world because everyone can hide their identities and leave messages irresponsibly online.
As for how to solve it, Chen Zhihao believes that the real-name system should be implemented: "The real-name system can still use screen names, but if the speech involves illegal, criminal responsibility is required." He said that how to implement it is subject to discussion, but believes that at least the young people can know that the speech has consequences: "In the real world, you can be accused of defamation. Now that the Internet is closely related to life, how can there be no legal restrictions?"
Propaganda of the establishment is slogan, young people have high demands on reasoning
The trend of online discussion is certainly not good for the establishment, and the establishment’s propaganda methods really need to be improved.
Chen Zhihao pointed out that many young people reported to him that the propaganda of the establishment was slogan, or only focused on expressing their stance, but these propaganda methods were not enough to win the recognition and support of young people.
Chen Zhihao pointed out that young people born in the 80s, 90s, and 00s have grown up in the Internet age and have become accustomed to discussing with people online. Therefore, young people have high requirements for argumentation and reasoning. Talk about the argument and rationale of the service.
The previous generation unconditionally accepted "patriotism", young people will ask why
He used "patriotism" as an example. The previous generation easily accepted that "patriotism is justified", but now young people will ask "Why?" (why), and they will ask whether there are other options and why patriotism is justified. Therefore, he believes The establishment and the SAR government need to construct more convincing arguments to enrich the reasoning behind patriotism.
"It can be expressed from the level of interests, history, national sentiments, and even universal values that patriotism is the core civic consciousness."
Multi-angle analysis of the Dongjiang water supply to Hong Kong is a reasonable measure for Hong Kong, the student union agrees
Chen Zhihao also pointed out that many establishments have said in the past that Hong Kong people should be grateful to China for supplying Hong Kong with Dongjiang water, but he noticed that many young people responded: "Dongjiang water delivery? I have to use it every year. Buy it with money!" He said that if you consider the situation of the Dongjiang water project in the 1970s, it was actually a huge burden to start the Dongjiang water port project under bad economic conditions, reflecting the country's concern and support for Hong Kong.
From the perspective of Hong Kong, Chen Zhihao pointed out that the Dongjiang Water Project has enabled Hong Kong to have a stable supply of fresh water, and stable water supply is an important factor in regional development. "If water is produced every three days, how does a city operate? How does the catering industry operate? How to attract talents from all over the world to live in Hong Kong?"
Chen Zhihao said that he once went to the school to share the above remarks, and the students present agreed with it, showing that purely eloquent statements are not enough, but if they are more reasonable, young people are often willing to listen.
Snake Zhai Bingzhu is ineffective for young people, do more knowledge work
As a member of the New Democratic Party, Chen Zhihao participated in the 2019 regional elections but failed. Regarding whether the establishment of regional work should be upgraded, Chen Zhihao believes that the old "snake cake rice cake" is no longer feasible for young people. How do you win the support of young people? You talk about tea talks, but how can young people participate in these tea talks?"
Looking to the future, Chen Zhihao believes that more knowledge-based regional work should be done, such as residents’ forums, and the reasoning can be clearly stated in order to win the support of young people. "You have to make young people feel that you are a reasonable person and you are persuasive. Strong people can win the recognition of young people more than how many mooncakes and rice dumplings they have distributed."
"If you assume that young people are not reasonable, the future of Hong Kong will be sad."
Some people say that young people are the pillars of society, but there are also voices saying that we should "give up young people." "We should have confidence in young people. It can be assumed that young people are not reasonable, and we are unwilling to listen to what we say. We have this hypothesis that Hong Kong’s future will be sad, with no future and hopeless.” Chen Zhihao reiterated in the interview: “If we have hope for the future of Hong Kong, we must first have hope for the young people. We want it. Understand the young people in Hong Kong, in which way to win the support of young people, to communicate in a way of reasoning and language accepted by young people, and this is where Hong Kong's youth work and political work must be valued in the future."
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