The national community refers to a group of people living within a country's borders who share common characteristics like socio-economic, political, and cultural identities. It denotes belonging to a nation, whereas a local community is restricted to a smaller area. Exercising both rights and duties as a citizen is important for a just society, as rights protect individuals while duties instill responsibility. In Bhutan specifically, rights ensure protections from the government while duties require tolerance among all people. At a national level, debates are conducted with self-censorship, and the same principle of respecting others' right to speak applies to communities like schools.
The national community refers to a group of people living within a country's borders who share common characteristics like socio-economic, political, and cultural identities. It denotes belonging to a nation, whereas a local community is restricted to a smaller area. Exercising both rights and duties as a citizen is important for a just society, as rights protect individuals while duties instill responsibility. In Bhutan specifically, rights ensure protections from the government while duties require tolerance among all people. At a national level, debates are conducted with self-censorship, and the same principle of respecting others' right to speak applies to communities like schools.
The national community refers to a group of people living within a country's borders who share common characteristics like socio-economic, political, and cultural identities. It denotes belonging to a nation, whereas a local community is restricted to a smaller area. Exercising both rights and duties as a citizen is important for a just society, as rights protect individuals while duties instill responsibility. In Bhutan specifically, rights ensure protections from the government while duties require tolerance among all people. At a national level, debates are conducted with self-censorship, and the same principle of respecting others' right to speak applies to communities like schools.
The national community refers to a group of people living within a country's borders who share common characteristics like socio-economic, political, and cultural identities. It denotes belonging to a nation, whereas a local community is restricted to a smaller area. Exercising both rights and duties as a citizen is important for a just society, as rights protect individuals while duties instill responsibility. In Bhutan specifically, rights ensure protections from the government while duties require tolerance among all people. At a national level, debates are conducted with self-censorship, and the same principle of respecting others' right to speak applies to communities like schools.
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National community
The term national community refers to a
group of people within a geographical territory, sharing common socio-economic, political, cultural and identities. The keyword here community, which means a group of people living in the same place and sharing common characteristics and values. The word national means country as opposed to local, which denotes being restricted to a particular area. Thus, a national community means a nation or state like Bhutan, whereas a local community means a group of people living in small area such as villages or town near our school community. Exercising rights and duties as a citizens is critical to maintaining a peaceful, harmonious, and just society.
Rights help to preserve the security of life and
property and human dignity while duties help instill a citizens a sense of care and responsibility for the common good. Rights ensures that individuals citizen are protected from unreasonable actions of the government and public institutions. For example, several sections under Article 7 protect individuals from cruel treatment by public institutions such as torture, arbitrary arrest, and capital punishment. On the other hand, duties ensure that individual citizens are not reckless in exercising their rights. For example, Article 7 Section 2 of the Constitution grants a citizen the right to the freedom of speech. However, Article 8 Section 3 requires him or her to foster tolerance, mutual respect, and brotherhood among all the people of Bhutan. This means that the right to freedom of speech cannot be exercised at the cost of tolerance, mutual respect, and brotherhood among the people of Bhutan. The right to the freedom of expression and the duty to foster tolerance and brotherhood play out at the national level in the form of media reports and parliamentary debates. Debates and discussions are conducted with a reasonable degree of self-censorship. This can be practised in a local community such as your school. You can start by agreeing to this simple rule: everyone has the right to speak, but everyone has the duty to listen. Driglam Choesum Driglam Choesum refers to the traditional Bhutanese code of etiquette. It is the customary practice of polite behaviour, speech, and attitude. OR It is a traditional practice of bhutanese peoples which Driglam means the way of maintaining order. Namzha refers to a concept or system. Driglam literally means the way/method (ལམ་) of maintaining order while namzha (རྣམ་བཞག་) refers to a concept or system. Driglam namzha is thus a system of orderly and cultured behavior or, the standards and rules that constitute it. Good mannerisms in Bhutan is to a great extent defined by the Buddhist ethics of wholesome physical, verbal and mental conducts. Zacha Drosum (བཟའ་བཅའ་འགྲ ོ་ གསུམ།) The zacha drosum refers to physical behaviours, including manners of eating, chewing and walking. OR The way the Bhutanese eat, behave and walk is also part of this discipline, known as zhacha dro sum. • The concept of driglam, like bézha (འབད་ བཞག་) or jaluchalu (བྱ་ལུགས་ཆ་ལུགས་), refers in a broad sense to the good manners adopted by individuals that are heavily influenced by the concept of Buddhist good conduct. THANK YOU Group Members: 1.Kinley Tshering. 2.Jamyang Yoesel Tshering. 3.Lhundrup Wangmo. 4.TshokiDema.