Hello wonderful people. Hope you all are having a good time and if you are not, then I quie sure your good times will come soon.
Nevertheless, I know and understand that many people take a lo of interst im politics and at the same time I am aware that many of us like politics but maybe not that much and some of you don’t like the subject at all.
Regardless of your respective views on this matter. Have you ever thought or wondered the relationship beteen our lives and the subject of politics?
Now, many of you might say “so, who cares?”
But the truth is, whatever decisions nomatter how big or small that choice be, it has massive impact on us as citizens.
I think I have got to agree with Paul Ginsborg because everything we do whether we are politicians or not is based on one central word “CHOICE“.
It depends on us as individuals as to what we choose which changes our life in a possitive or negstive way.
For example, when we go to the polling station o cast our vote, we make a choice as to whom will we vote for.
Another good example is when we go to the supermarket or grocery store to buy goods, and when we don’t find what we are looking for or let’s say for a specific brend then we think maybe its not made or imported toour country. That is somehow or the other linked to politics.
Jus like in real life we have various relationships like parents with their children and other relatives, in politics we have relationships too.
But these are more of a formal relationship between two or more countries.
The knot that often brings countries together are agreements or a Memorendom of Understandings (MOU) that helps strengthen ties betwen the states involvd, upon signing the agreements or the MOU’s the singnatories agree to work together on a common course.
Like we have close friends and relatives, similarly in the political areana our close friends are known as those states that are within our region.
For example, the friendship beween Fiji with Tonga is a is a regional relationship becaus both countries are located within the Pacific Ocean.
Moreover, countries that do not share the same regional boundaries are often refered to as international boarders.
For instance, Fiji has friendships with China, India or the United Kingdom, it can be referred to as an international relationship.
Sometimes you may have had difference of opinion between families, friends, workmates, to name a few.
This human nature is no different in the political field.
Let’s take climate change for example, people of the Pacific Islands believe that change in wether patterns are actually taking place. But the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump thinks climate change is a hoax.
So now you see it, there’s not much of a diffrence between the relationships we hae with people and politics.
The two can often be seperated by the words “formal” and “informal”. whereby diplometic ties can be called formal and political relationships whereas, the connections with our families, friends and relatives are non-political and informal relationships.
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