Feggi's respond (11/23)

Ethic can be a complicated topic to understand. For me, the major cause of unethical behavior is culture. I come from Indonesia, where we have different culture from the United States’, especially dealing with behavior. I think one of the problems is not because we are unaware of ethical behavior, but maybe we learn things differently. It is hard to understand one’s desires, when we feel we don’t need it. For example, I had planned to work with one company for an internship this fall, but I never worked there because of a major problem. I am an international student, so I cannot get paid when I work outside Seattle University. However, this company forced me to work with them, and promised me with good money. I told them again, I could not work for them, and they forced me and told me they will pay me “under table”. Obviously, it is unethical behavior, but why they still have it on their mind?


Furthermore, I do not agree that our generation has less sensitivity. I think it depends on each person. I personally try my best to behave and make everybody happy. However, sometimes my behavior can make other confuse, and it back to culture. Culture is difficult to understand because we learned it since we still a kid. Unconsciously, we already have that mindset about some things. I think the only way to understand more about ethics is to learn more about it. Learn from our mistakes, and others’ experience. Try to understand one and another.


Other than culture, media plays a major role in ethical point of view. Nowadays, almost everybody have Facebook, and we can make our profile a private page. However, some major company can still open our page freely without us knowing it. We already discussed this in class, and I think it is a bit unethical. Facebook is like our profile. We put our pictures, information, hobbies, status relationship, siblings, school, and much more. I make my page private so other people who I don’t know cannot open my page; yet some random company can open and check it out. That is why; I think our media plays a major role in changing our ethical behavior.