You know, I'm getting really tired of this country that we live in. Malaysia. A country where, despite you being born here, your parents being born here, or even your grandparents, a certain group of people label you as 'pendatang', as a foreigner.
A country, where if you work hard and achieve some measure of financial success, you are considered to have taken from what rightfully belongs to another race.
This group of people continue to believe that they deserve everything, that they deserve wealth and success, just by virtue of their blood and race. The believe that the Chinese have taken or stolen from them what is rightfully theirs.
Excuse me, what has anyone stolen from you? What have I stolen from you? I work, I earn my own living, I pay taxes and I have taken nothing. Have I stolen from you just because you see me as a Chinese? Have I stolen from you just because I have done better than you in some cases? What about those who have done better than me financially? Did they steal from me?
I seriously wonder where some of these people get their ideas from.
All this constant brainwashing and beliefs that have been locked into their system.
At the core of it, I can only consider it one thing. RACISM. There is no other word to describe it. It is as if these people dub themselves as the MASTER race. They even use words to describe it as such.
Also, there is the constant reminder and consequences of 'questioning their rights'. Their position. And this reminder is often linked to the direct/indirect threat of violence. ... bathing in blood.....
Can anyone tell me how people like this are allowed to speak as such and be applauded rather than shamed? Can anyone tell me why this is acceptible behaviour?
Can someone how a Government Leader, a Politician, can endorse such behaviour when faced with their own race, but put on a moderate 'face' in front of the rest of the public. Is this not a lack of sincerity? Is this not a lack of integrity?
Any why do people always justify their wrongs by making accusations, you shouldn't have done that first, you shouldn't have questioned our position, you make such comments at your own poltical gatherings......
Is no one able to stand up and break free of this? Is your position and power so important that you will do anything to gather support.
I cannot stand our country. The country that I have been born in.
If I wanted to be treated as a foreigner, as a 2nd class citizen, I can gladly go elsewhere to achieve that. In fact, I can go elsewhere, be a foreigner, and even earn a better living by getting out of here.
Will my children, born in Malaysia, have to experience this? Will it ever end? Is anyone going to stand up to make a difference?
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Difficult questions to which I completely agree with your point of view. One very popular school of thought is that the best way to be is complacent- to be satisfied with what you have and never question anything.
Unfortunately, just because millions of people are complacent doesn't make it right.
At the very heart of my discontent with the world you describe is exactly this complacency. Its not only the inability to question, it is the actual unwillingness to do so. It makes me wonder- at which point in time did we decide to just sit back and "accept" it? At which point did we decide that this is the way it is and this is the way it will always be, so why do anything about it?
Can anything be done?
In truth, I don't know.
I draw a line in my mind between "country" and "home", although I shouldn't have to. And when I think about it, it saddens me that I although I am away from both, I have never once missed the former.
It's "Group Think" and unfortunately, a larger part of the group are not as educated and smart as you hence they follow and rally around emotions created or injected into this "group think" behavior. They don't question beyond what they feel or why they feel that way. They easily accept what they hear, and it is just the laziness of the mind to engage and think through rationally before jumping to conclusions. At the crux of it, it is jealousy. One way I deal with that is "Sorry mate, it's your problem not mine and I can't help you."
No sense getting into frustration about this. Life is to be enjoyed, and time is too short to be wasted on rationalizing such behaviors.
We can control our own emotions and choices. I'd rather direct all my energy to people I love. Why worry about how others from the outside see us? They aren't important in my life and they contribute nothing to my happiness. So I might as well spend my time focused on being happy.
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