Racism
Racism exists practically in all countries, but in certain places and situations it is especially common. Some of the very common reasons for racism to arise are fear or the need for a "scapegoat". If things are going badly many people’s natural reaction is to blame somebody else. This is exactly what often causes racism, if the unemployment is rising or the national economy is very weak, many people will look for a scapegoat to blame, and in most cases they will choose the people that they do not know, such as those with a different ethnical or cultural background.
The Past
Racism or prejudice is as old as mankind. The fear of the unknown is a natural reaction. Throughout the history people have made borders and strong defences to keep strangers out. In the effort to keep strangers out people are developing still stronger and more effective weapons. This striving toward safety has started several wars and killed millions of people.
I can't imagine racism could still happen in front of my eye when I attended the SONY training yesterday. It started off with the lecturer dividing all his listeners into a group of 5. There was a group with 2 Chinese, 2 Malays and 1 Indian. Guess what's next? Minority always gets bullied.
I didn't notice this during the first event where the lecturer asked us to get a representative for the VAIO presentation. That poor Indian as doing the presentation. Everything looks fine to me until the second event happens. The lecturer is actually looking for a volunteer to do a role play in front of the training room of around 30 listeners. No one wants to volunteer, so the lecturer randomly selected a group and asked if anyone from the group to come out for the role play. They was selected again and it if very obvious that they are bullying minority.
What happen here was that the 2 Chinese was pointing to the Indian boy, where the 2 Malays was laughing and pointing at that poor little Indian boy. Four of them laughs and pads on the shoulder of that Indian. Finally, there goes the Indian boy...
The second event I would like to share about racism was within our local consumers. I think this happens to most of us. Previously I was working with Public Bank Berhad where there was a fruit stall in front of the bank where usually run by a chinese man and during lunch period his stall would be flooded by majority of chinese customers followed by a 20% of Malay and maybe 10% of Indian.
There was once the chinese man opens a new stall and he has to take care of the new stall whereby his old stall is handled by an Indian seller. Then what I can see was, there was a bunch of Indian customers and maybe 20% combination of Malay and Chinese customers. What is wrong with this world? The fruit was still from the same place. Just that it was sold by different race of seller. Here it shows even us as consumers sometimes could be a racist as well.
What I can say is... STOP RACISM! Stop being a racist! Racism happens not only in the government department but as well as within the Malaysian citizen. It's not a crime being a human! So to all readers, PLEASE STOP RACISM!
I know sometimes we think that those Indians or the minority would do things like raping, kidnap and they are too bad or naughty. But think twice, if we've not being so racist from the past until now... Will they be like that? If we don't bully them, we don't treat them like an animal, we don't look at them as if an alien from outer space but instead we give them a chance... would they turn a raper or a murderer or a kidnapper today? Who want's to be a criminal when there's a "road" for them to live on. Agree?
