Who Are The Key Stakeholders In A Democratic Society

Originally I saw democracy only as this extremely simple, black and white definition. I thought of it only in the form of government. Which is government style where the every eligible member of the population were able to elected representatives to voice their opinions and thoughts. However, it is much more complicated than just that. Especially in the education system. I now think of the definition of democracy as the freedom, equality, power to voice your beliefs without getting in trouble and also being able to compromise with one another. In addition, the democratic society is made up of many and very different groups of people with different backgrounds and stories that all have healthy and positive interactions with each other. This …show more content…
There almost always seem to be people with more power in a democracy whether we like it or not. Just like in real life, there was clearly a group of kids that held power and credibility when compared to the rest of the students. The smarter and popular kids were the representatives and even though they did listen to what the other students had to say, they did not really act on it unless they agreed with what they were saying. Whenever a student that was not in the key stakeholder group recommended a problem, the group would disagree and said it was too easy of a problem, and then the rest of the class would agree and say the problem was too easy. So when the key stakeholder group finally decided which problem to pick, everyone was finally in agreement and everybody compromised. However, clearly someone had more power in the entire democratic process which is not supposed to happen in a democracy. I found it kind of really strange and sad how much this relates to the real world form of democracy we live in. If you replace the popular and smarter kids with the more privileged, with the rest of the group being the minorities, and instead of voting on a problem, replace that with voting on a political issue. Once you do that you pretty much have what our real life democracy is like. I was an observer in this example here, but I learned so much just from watching. I did not learn much at the moment since I did not …show more content…
Furthermore, I’ve been thinking about all the minorities that need help in our diverse society. The one discussion that we had just a few days ago really sparked my thoughts about the topics of diversity. It was the reading of the long article where all we did was listen and take in all of the information and saw how things are still bad in terms of injustice in Birmingham and all across the U.S. I thought about how our society usually tries to turn a blind eye towards all of that negativity, and how many people, including cops, try to change just laws in order to make their own unjust means and morals seem right. Our society still has a ways to go till everyone is treated equally, however, we have made progress and I have hope that one day I will not have to worry about my family getting treated wrongly and unfairly just because they are