President’s Star Charity Show- is there a need for artistes to perform stunts to milk the public’s compassion for more generous donations?

President’s Star Charity Show is an annual event in Singapore. The artistes are invited to perform to public to milk the public’s compassion for more donations. However, somebody doubt that is it necessary for these artistes to carry out more and more pompous performance to stimulate public’s compassion these year. The doubt is reasonable, because the amount of donation in President’s Star Charity Show is really decreasing these years and the pompous performances do not stop it at all. In my opinion, there is no need for artistes to perform stunts to milk people’s compassion for more generous donation.

Firstly, a pompous performance actually can not milk public’s compassion at all. It will be good if stunts can stimulate public’s compassion. However, there is no relationship between stunts and compassion. Enjoying a stunt is a kind of entertainment; it makes the audience felt comfortable and happy things. But how can the entertainment link to the donation? How can they know the difficulties the poor faced? And then how can they show their sympathy on the poor in this way? You see, during the Charity Show, there are full of screaming and shouting when the famous artistes appear under the spotlight. It is like a vocal recital, the audiences’ aims are to see there own idol but not because of charity. In this way, the Charity Show became useless, and the main idea had changed. Thus, it is no good for artistes to perform stunts to milk the public’s compassion.

Secondly, a great show means a lot of money, even if the artistes do not need pay. And some people say, the government has enough money to hold the great show, but why the government does not have money to help the poor. They also say that was the main reason why they decrease their donations. And some people say, why not the artistes donate more money to the charity, but carry out showy performances without real worth. Yes, if this large amount of money can be donated to the poor, it will help them more. Thus, the pompous performance is no need in the Charity Show.

However, I can not say the Charity Show is no use. We need appropriate people to propagate the thing to public. You see, people will not donate any money if they do not know the charity at all. The famous stars become the ideal propagators. They can make more people fix their eyes on the event. And no other better way is more effective than that. The more people fix on the charity, the more donations will be. There is no doubt that the Charity Show playing an important role in milking others’ compassion and enhancing the donations.

Nowadays, the gap between the rich and the poor becomes bigger and bigger. The rich people can not really understand the situation the poor faced, thus, the compassion loses. We need the Charity Show to make people remind their compassion. However, the Show shouldn’t me an entertainment event. Therefore, it is no need for artistes to perform stunts. And they should do something really relate to the poor and charity.