Media Culture 2014

Among the three questions, i would like to choose the first question:
People should not be censored or worry about using the swear words when communicating. Do you agree?

In my opinion, I am neutral with this statement as swear word can be benefit but also bring harm to society.Nowadays, I realise that most of people are using swear word when they communicating with each other. Although according to Cambridge Dictionaries (2014), swear word is referred to a rude or offensives word but to them swearing  is one of the pathways in order to release their anger and unsatisfying towards the stress from jobs, or family issues. Most of the people who using swear word are not really against the person whom they communicate to but is just a habit that people used to be and hard to change it by only one time. This habit can be described same as smoking where once the person is addicted, he/she is hard to change the habit again unless the person spends some times on it.According to Time (2013), Katy Steinmetz has studied on Mohr notes that swearing can help to alleviate pain that when a person put the hands in a buckets of cold water, the person can stay longer time by shouting the s*** words rather than shoot.

However, in the harmful ways, swearing might bring chaos to the society where people misuse the swear word. For an instance, if a person offence another people purposely by using the swear word, there might end up with fight or might come to worst where both of them might get injured. Therefore, parents play important role in educate their child not to use the swear word as they have a big influence from the adults as children do not have any ideas about the swear words.Therefore, they just follow what the parents do or say. If the parents always speaking swear words, obviously the children will say it too.

In my opinion, people should not be censored when using swear word in terms of releasing their stress but in the same time they must be worry where the swear word also might bring chaos to the society when people communicating with each other.


References:
Cambridge University Press (2014) Definition of Swear Word. Available at: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/swearing [ Accessed at 29/5/2014]

Steinmetz,K. (2013) Time: Nine Things You Probably Didn't Know About Swear Word. Available at: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/10/nine-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-swear-words/ [Accessed at 29/5/2014]