Apart from achieving goals by cheating on exams, I have been protesting in Hong Kong ‘s Occupy Central revolution. Occupy Central is a civil disobedience movement which began in September 2014. My deviant action as a protestor in the revolution can be explained through Marxist-based concept of conflict. We acts defiantly to change our conditions, change the social structure that engendered our circumstances. We want the right to nominate and directly elect the head of the Hong Kong government. During the revolution, there were hundreds of thousands of students and other citizen are involved in the pretest. I have been part of the revolution occupying the central district from day to night and trying to fight for full democracy. So many young
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In other words, my deviant cheating behavior is determined by my personality and cultural background. This is true. From the personality perspective, I am a very aggressive woman who does not like the feeling of failure. I cheated on exams because I do not want my friends look down on me and thus I use the wrong way to show people how great I could be. Secondly, Individual’s deviant behavior occurs due to cultural background. My family was very poor when I was a little girl, however, the situation is getting better when my fathers opened a business in South Africa. When I graduated from High school, they encouraged me to study aboard as they wanted me to do better than themselves and see education as the only means of ensuring social mobility. At that time, I felt so much pressure on study and I did not want them to feel disappointed on me. So I was trying to boost my GPA through my means. And also, East Asian families such as Korean families, Chines family an Japanese families are spending more and more of their money on securing their children the best possible education. They put so many money and attention on their children and thus their children got enormous …show more content…
And four of them can explain my involvement in Occupy Central in Hong Kong. The first one is attachment. Hirschi believes that “the psychopath is characterized only in part by "deficient attachment to or affection for others, a failure to respond to the ordinary motivations founded in respect or regard for one 's fellows" (Hairschi 172). In other words, he considers that young people who have closer attachment to their family and schools are encountered in most social control-orientated research and theory. I admitted that I am not that closely attached to my family which leads me get involved in the movement. The Occupy Central movement had huge impacts on people’s daily life and caused enormous economic deficit. My parents like the older generation in Hong Kong would not allow us to join the movement since they will consider our students as troublemakers. The second of which is commitment that refers to the investment we put in the society. The more investment people put on the society, the less chance they will commit deviant acts compared to people who have no job and no connection to the society (Hairsch 174). I have gotten involved the movement for almost a week and spend my whole days supporting people in the front lines. This is because I am still a student and had no career. And the deviant activities did not threaten my employment. The third element identified by Hairsch
In other words, my deviant cheating behavior is determined by my personality and cultural background. This is true. From the personality perspective, I am a very aggressive woman who does not like the feeling of failure. I cheated on exams because I do not want my friends look down on me and thus I use the wrong way to show people how great I could be. Secondly, Individual’s deviant behavior occurs due to cultural background. My family was very poor when I was a little girl, however, the situation is getting better when my fathers opened a business in South Africa. When I graduated from High school, they encouraged me to study aboard as they wanted me to do better than themselves and see education as the only means of ensuring social mobility. At that time, I felt so much pressure on study and I did not want them to feel disappointed on me. So I was trying to boost my GPA through my means. And also, East Asian families such as Korean families, Chines family an Japanese families are spending more and more of their money on securing their children the best possible education. They put so many money and attention on their children and thus their children got enormous …show more content…
And four of them can explain my involvement in Occupy Central in Hong Kong. The first one is attachment. Hirschi believes that “the psychopath is characterized only in part by "deficient attachment to or affection for others, a failure to respond to the ordinary motivations founded in respect or regard for one 's fellows" (Hairschi 172). In other words, he considers that young people who have closer attachment to their family and schools are encountered in most social control-orientated research and theory. I admitted that I am not that closely attached to my family which leads me get involved in the movement. The Occupy Central movement had huge impacts on people’s daily life and caused enormous economic deficit. My parents like the older generation in Hong Kong would not allow us to join the movement since they will consider our students as troublemakers. The second of which is commitment that refers to the investment we put in the society. The more investment people put on the society, the less chance they will commit deviant acts compared to people who have no job and no connection to the society (Hairsch 174). I have gotten involved the movement for almost a week and spend my whole days supporting people in the front lines. This is because I am still a student and had no career. And the deviant activities did not threaten my employment. The third element identified by Hairsch