Attitude is very important in
our lives. We must care about attitude we act towards the society. An attitude
is "a relatively enduring organization of beliefs, feelings, and
behavioral tendencies towards socially significant objects, groups, events or
symbols" (Hogg, & Vaughan 2005, p. 150).
Attitude has a big influence to develop our lives. Good attitude will lead us
to positive things and so the other way around. Therefore, attitude impact the
development of the country. As a big country, Indonesia is still in the
developing stage. Indonesia needs improvement in this aspect to be better
country in the future.
Indonesian people have bad attitude that
prevent them to build a good country. In economical aspect, Indonesia has a
large number of corruption cases by government officers and national company
officers. Indonesia was in the 68th position of the most corrupt
country in the world, based on Corruption Index Perception in 2014. Other bad
attitudes of Indonesian people are against the street law. Whenever you walked
by on some crowded street in Indonesia, especially in Jakarta, you will see some
cars or motorcycles which parked or stopped right beside the traffic signs.
Moreover, there is a slogan widespread in the society said that “rules are made
to be broken”. People are not afraid to broke the rules especially street laws
because they assume that even the police officers can support them to against
the laws as long as they give the officers an amount of money. This kind of bad
attitude will increase te number of corruption cases in Indonesia.
What should we do for better attitude in
Indonesia? There are three steps to make a better life. The first is we should
start from ourselves. We can make a reflection of ourselves, whether our
personality are good enough or not. We can change it into a better one. The
second is we should start from the simplest one. A saying said that “a big
change is come from a tiny little change”. We can not change a big country’s
attitude as simple as we change our clothes, we should start from the simplest
one and try to persuade our family or our friends to change a little bit
better. Finally, we can start from now on, right after you read this passage.
Overall, Indonesia is a big country that has
so many cultures and attitudes. There is a good quote from Charles Swindoll
which may help us to know better about attitude. “The longer I live, the more I
realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than
facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than
circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or
say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will
make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a
choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot
change our past, we cannot change the fact that people will act in certain way
we cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one
string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what
happens to me and 90% how I react to it, and so it is with you, we are charge
of our Attitudes.”
References
Swindoll,
Charles. Quotes.
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