Looking at most of the Chinese Clan Association Youth Sections, the old folks keep saying no youth want to join due to they (the youth) are busy working on building up their career, and accumulating their wealth. My opinion is that, the old folks who say this is SHUTTING THE DOOR for the youth to come in to association.
I will tell you the story why I join Chinese Clan Association in my next post. Now I would like to point it to all of you, reason why youth are not joining Chinese Association.
First of all, the youth does not feel welcome. There are no activities FOR THE MEMBER. The association merely organize events for the "FAME of ASSOCIATION", not for the member. With this, members does not feel belong to the association. Because the member who join the activities feel no different from the public (none clan member) who join that event (although member might have some special discount). In other words, there is no sense of belonging.
When I first joined the association, I do not know anyone in the association. I only go to one of the event because of a friend brought me there. That event was organized by the youth section for our clan youth member to know each other. Peer influence play a big role here. When we attend a function or event that we are not familiar, we tends to get some friend to accompany us. If it was not because of my friend, I would not have joined the association.
Last and the most importantly, if we compare our clan association with other organization like the LEO, ROTARACT, TOASTMASTER, JCI, etc... Why they can attract young people to join and clan association can not? What I found out is the youth empowerment is lack in clan association. Have you noticed the clan association's youth section head is normally age limitless? It was because they want to be able to appoint the head from the mother body, by selecting someone from the Mother body's General Council.
I dare say it is a serious problem to the association. Meaning if there is no youth member elected to the General Council, they will appoint a 60 year old uncle to head the youth section. Do you want to be in this youth section my dear brothers and sisters? To be mean, can the 60 year old uncle go to jungle trekking, go-karting, or ice skating with the youth? I think this is the most ridiculous act, and should be amended. If young member empowerment is not being achieved, the association is heading to a dead end.
As conclusion, Youth Empowerment is a must for Chinese Clan Association to continue another 100 years, 1000 years, and infinity years of existence.
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totally agree with your stand!
ReplyDeleteindeed, without the involvement of youths in the Chinese Clan, sooner or later, the clan will disappeared.
beyond that, Chinese Clans should always bring in dynamic group of youth leaders to fight for the rights and spread the culture to other races!
youths are not interested in participating in clans are partially due to their parents. nowadays, parents tend to preach to their children about the importance of english, hence, forgetting their root!
yeah, that is why Chinese Clan association has to play a bigger role in making sure the root is still remembered.
ReplyDeleteI think another factor driving youth out from Chinese Clan/association is the impression it has been portrait all the time. When you mention about clan, it is old people stuffs, or someone had been doing something behind just to make the door closed all the time.
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