【Flyer杀G作文组】7月28日Issue11-By 但我

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ISSUE 11
11. "All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems."
分类：政治

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Determining whether something should or should not be done could be weighed in many aspects. Different people have different answers due to their respective point of view. On balance, my view is that it is not deserved that all nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems, for such a university posses certain risks that all participating countries must be conscious not be against their original purpose.

The first problem with this claim is that it is of low efficiency and not effective for all nations to establish a university to train their students with the ability of coping with the most difficult social problems. Participant nations would need to overcome a myriad of administrative and political impediments. All nations have to make frequent meetings to decide which issue needs their attention and the right way to respond to it. For example, different religious countries may have disputes in the areas of curriculums as they have unique taboos. For the Muslims, pig should not be refered (referred) to while Christians are not allowed to eat animals' blood. And the doctrines of various religions are quite dissimilar and their believers form varied world outlooks, so it is quite hard for those countries to agree on certain things. Query whether a functional global university is politically feasible, given that sovereign nations naturally wish to advance their own agendas.

The second problem is establishing a global university involves the risk that certain intellectual and research avenues would become officially sanctioned while others of equal or greater potential value would be discouraged, or perhaps even proscribed. To see this point clearly, let us see a similar example. The UN (United Nations) is made up of almost all the nations in the world, but only those rich and powerful countries have actual discourse powers while less developed countries and undeveloped countries have little influence on the international affairs. No one could ensure this inequity would not exist as the political forces may easily permeate academic realms.

Last but not least, some countries may have more urgent and immediate social problems than the ones that have been influencing the whole world. After all, different nations stay in various economic stages, have different resources, own different peoples and varied populations, thus their problems are unique according to the conditions of themselves. In some African countries, starvation and civil wars are confusing their people. On the contrary, for students from developed countries, those problems do not exist and they could not have sympathy with those people whose countries are in extreme miseries. ?
The developed countries may tend to discuss how to improve the social welfare, reduce the employment rate while ignoring those people who are struggling on the verge of death. Thus some urgent and immediate social problems may fail to arouse the university's attention.

In sum, it must be explained that these three reasons intertwine to form an organic whole, thus becoming more persuasive than anyone of them. So, any thinking person must believe that it not wise that all nations should assist the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems.