Today we had a free-topic discussion on European Citizenship and problems that are involved with the issue. Those include things like the lack of information and motivation among the European youth, death penalty, abortions, euthanasia and right to vote from the age of 16 years and for people with mental disabilities.
Mostly everyone was in agreement with the topic of people with mental disabilities and was drawn to conclusion that as every person is equal in their rights they are totally allowed to have children and vote. Though the opinions got different when we got to the topic of abortions, euthanasia and death penalty, as church doesn’t allow these actions but everything really depends on the situation. For example when someone was raped and is pregnant there are totally no reasons to keep the baby as it is not the product of love, but a product of violence. Also abortions may be really dangerous when made to young people and if the fetus is older than 12 weeks. As for the euthanasia – mostly everyone is quite sympathetic and say that people shouldn’t suffer for nothing and just have a right to pass away peacefully.
When the talks hit the theme of passive youth it was complicated. Young people are lazy, they miss the opportunities and sometimes don’t like the changes because they are simply afraid and don’t feel comfortable. Is it the lack of information or motivation? But people can be active without information.
Mostly everyone was in agreement with the topic of people with mental disabilities and was drawn to conclusion that as every person is equal in their rights they are totally allowed to have children and vote. Though the opinions got different when we got to the topic of abortions, euthanasia and death penalty, as church doesn’t allow these actions but everything really depends on the situation. For example when someone was raped and is pregnant there are totally no reasons to keep the baby as it is not the product of love, but a product of violence. Also abortions may be really dangerous when made to young people and if the fetus is older than 12 weeks. As for the euthanasia – mostly everyone is quite sympathetic and say that people shouldn’t suffer for nothing and just have a right to pass away peacefully.
When the talks hit the theme of passive youth it was complicated. Young people are lazy, they miss the opportunities and sometimes don’t like the changes because they are simply afraid and don’t feel comfortable. Is it the lack of information or motivation? But people can be active without information.
After a delicious lunch prepared by the Spanish group (yummy!!!)
we spent our time tidying the school up and preparing the intercultural evening...
We learnt to dance, sing and a little bit of history and facts as well as cultural notes about Serbia, Montenegro, Belorusia, Norway and Spain. And...to explore the countries with ALL our senses we even managed to taste international foods, which was actually very interesting.
Our Travel will finnish tomorrow with our trips back to our countries...
We've learnt a lot, shared a lot, experienced a lot felt a lot...
I really miss u all.. <3
ReplyDeleteI hope that we can meet again.. :)
Love Nora <3