Sometimes when you travel by the public bus, you observed a lot such as people and the surroundings. I mean, if you are driving, you are suppose to concentrate on the road so you can't really pay attention to other stuff. When you take the bus, you meet a lot of weird people. Like the other day, there's this woman who was wiping her face with a piece of towel and she used the same towel to WIPE HER ARMPITS. She really wipe her armpits! And then she wiped her face again.
And today i noticed something INTERESTING. The bus was passing by this condominium and it stopped there for awhile because of the jammed. It gave me time to read what was on the banner :
" We are not racism but we are against foreigners who are arrogant, rebellious and can't adapt to our lifestyle and Malaysia culture". I would have taken a picture of this but there was a guy sitting across me and the banner was behind him so if i look at the banner any longer or attempt to take a pic of it, he would think i'm interested in him or something.
I think there's a slight English mistake on the banner, it should have been RACISTS not racism. Nevertheless, i feel that the banner does convey the right message because that was how i felt ages ago when Malaysia decide to take in too many foreigners and when foreigners start to become troublemakers.
You see, I know this condominium well. It's a very packed place. Not such a good environment to live in but the rental is cheap. And there's a lot of foreign students there, the Blacks, Arabians, Chinese from China etc. Not many Bangladesh people there because the Bangladesh and Indonesian workers stay at another apartment.
Back to this Racism issue. Some people think that racism arise due to discrimination of skin colour. Perhaps this is true long long time ago but people now are highly educated. So it's got to be more than just skin colour. Seriously, why do you want to hate something just because it's too white, black or yellow? That's simply too shallow. Example, even in the Malay community, they take such pride if you are fair. When you are fair, it means you are beautiful, high class, etc. That's why you have so many young girls who use skin whitening products for the sake of looking like a bloody ghost. Like those stupid local advertisement, showing that if you are dark, you are unnoticeable. But when you use the stupid skin whitening, immediately the guy of your dreams notices you. What kind of B*llsh*t is that?
Truth to be told, i never discriminate people on skin colour. What i discriminate is ATTITUDE. Bad attitude.
All over this world, there are many cultures. Some cultures are too open, some are liberal while some are very conservative. That's when you get culture shock, because you have never experience such culture in your life especially if the culture is very open. Asian people culture tend to be more on the conservative part. In Malaysia, we are semi conservative. Majority of the people are conservative and the rest are like open minded and wild. But if you go to Saudi Arabia, that country is super conservative, so are the laws. But that's their culture and we must respect it.
When you are a foreigner and you enter a foreign country, you must respect that culture, you have no rights to criticized that country's culture. If you plan to live in the country due to work or studying, it might take you some time to adapt to it but eventually you will get used to it if you really try it.
Malaysians are not loud people. And you must remember, this is a country where the main religion is Islam and the majority here are Muslims. So we don't like it if we see people drinking in public and acting like hooligans, screaming and dancing like some retard humans. You want to do all these nonsense, it's not prohibited. You do it ONLY at CLUBS, with the rest of your drunken species. But never do it in public, it's an act that is not tolerable. Our own people don't do it, what more if you are a foreigner and you do it?
Some cultures are simply too wild. When it's too wild, it can't fit in a conservative country.
I don't entirely blame the foreign students for this discrimination issue and them being insensitive to Malaysia's culture. Malaysia government and the foreign student's government should take the INITIATIVE to educated their students about Malaysia's culture, the Do's and Don'ts of the country.
But Noooooooo, authorities are too selfish and greedy to make such initiative. All they care is money and the attempt at building a relationship between the two countries, hence the student exchange program. This is a total waste of time and crap if you in the first place never bother to educate your people about each others' cultures. Instead you just let your people run off loosely in the country and hope they will learn about that country on their own. So you are indirectly letting your people make all the mistakes and get into trouble with local authorities instead of letting them know firstly of what they shouldn't do in that country.
Different cultures are the real cause to racial discrimination, especially if one can't really accept such culture. People should learn to tolerate each others' culture but if you aren't Malaysian, you can't expect the rest of Malaysians to accept your wild foreign culture, especially if it's totally contrary to what the majority practices.
Also, because majority of the students of that particular foreign country are troublemakers, the good ones get the bad names, hence people start to labeling that they whole kind is bad, making the innocent ones as victims too. As the saying goes, one rotten apple spoils the barrel. For Malaysians, we shouldn't behave this way, don't start labeling people just because the majority are very messed up.
Like in the bus the other day, i observed how rude were the bus driver and the conductor towards the foreign students. I felt sorry for the 2 male foreign students and embarrassed as a Malaysian. Why must they be so rude if the 2 boys didn't do anything wrong? That one is clearly discrimination based on 'labeling'.
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