Youths want peace
By THE NATION ON SUNDAY
Published on January 2, 2011
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Children want adults to end quarrels and restore peace in the country as their New Year gift, a survey has found. The largest group of young respondents - or 41.5 per cent - wanted adults to stop their quarrels, followed by 25 per cent who wanted them to stop cheating and corruption, and 17 per cent who wanted them to stop disharmony or political tension.
Those were among the first five things that respondents said adults should stop, according to Noppadon Kannikar, director of Abac Poll Research Centre at Assumption University. About 7 per cent of the respondents said they wanted adults to stop doing anything or creating any conditions that would lead to conflict, and 6 per cent told them to stop selfishness. The survey was conducted from Wednesday to Thursday (December 29-30, 2010) with 1,135 young respondents aged between 10-15 in Bangkok and neighbouring provinces.
Meanwhile, the first five things youngsters said they wanted adults to do more of were to be good role models with morality (44 per cent), to help juveniles be happy (21 per cent), do things that will help bring harmony and love (16 per cent), do useful things for the sake of communities and the country (10 per cent) and restore Thailand's image (6 per cent).
For a part of the poll that allowed them to give more than one answer, 92.5 per cent wanted this year to be a year of restoring peace. Around 91 per cent wanted Thai people to be kind, generous and merciful. Ninety per cent said this year should be a year of love and harmony, while 87.5 per cent wanted people to be honest and against corruption.
Computers, the Internet, iPad and iPod were the most wanted gifts by youngsters (31 per cent of respondents), while 16 per cent wanted mobile phones and 15 per cent wanted scholarships and educational tools.