I'm seeing stars..... Posted at 08:16 PM
::Today's happenings::
1. Physics lab entire day...i tell ya that lab has an unsettling aura that makes me feel edgy everytime. i don't like. it's like this gloomy atmosphere's hovering by your ears saying..."you don't belong here....." or "try actually FLIPPING at the very least, a few pages of your physics text book before you come in next time....."
that lab needs more REACHABLE windows. not high ones...like those in prison cells.we need to BREATHE, goddamnit. more equipments. and...we should have goggles in the chemistry lab!!...good god, proven we need them since a few days ago we were Bunsen burning the nitrates. done with.
2. Gave in to studying in that 'claustrophobic cubicle' so we played air suling squirt battle and friggin' annoyed people off study paranoia towards the end of the day.
3. I'm SO flippin' heck proud of our miniature mummy outta loo rolls today! great first attempt. it looks so so so so so cool. What for? tsk.....
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There's a certain issue that's been nagging my.....okay, can't find anymore cool words to replace brain, but heck.
Anyways, still though, that certain issue is rather touchy, like a why-bring-it-up sort of issue. Still citizens, this is just a point of view from a fellow citizen who's just itching to make it a text-speak by herself. No offence intended whatsoever.
Straight to the point.
I've experience enough act of racism during my 4 yr stay in Europe and that, I thought, was all I would have to face in the meantime. Yup, my life there was not all lux. Boo-ya. They don't like you because you're different. Because you're come from this distant country they've never heard of (yup, most of them Brits don't know nor give a damn where or what Malaysia is. They know Singapore. So don't be bragging bout global Malaysia yet, 'cos we ain't even that far). They don't appreciate teacher taking extra care of your 'foreign kind' and so forth. Even still, there are absolutely wonderful friends whom you can really depend on to stand by you anytime disregarding where you come form. Honestly, I'll never forget them.
I believe, and this is my belief, the sense of racism or any type of discriminations lies quietly in each and every one of our hearts no mater how much we say, we are against racism. This threat isn't something you work on as you go through life. God created us of every different sizes and hues. Being humans we are, we know how to tell differences. Differences between colours, foreign features, and how we are different to them. How we are (to us maybe) much better than them. How we find it maybe a little bit harder to accept them because we've been mingling with the same 'us' all our lives, then here comes a different sort, how should we react to that?....and that's how racism is triggered. When we can see the differences, and our own nature telling us, however similar as humans we are, i still see that we are not alike.
As the matter of fact, we need not only just see a new 'type' to sense racism. Dare i say even in our very own society now, racism is empiring. No matter how many chants of 'we must be harmonious' or 'muhibbah!' we're still different. And as long as we see differences, we sense racism. What we mean by anti-racism is not to abolish the means of it . What we see cannot be eliminated. It's there. We're fair and dark. It's there. But what we should do is to realise our differences, and work at making the differences shape our mind-sets to say, "So what?.."
This issue also bore from the tendency of us to get used to stereo-types. By looking at a group of people, not savourable to our eyes, then we look at another group of people of the same nainality and then, we similarise them to what we saw before them. That's what happened to us back in Britain. For the record, Asians we claimed citizenship there act as if they own the country and of course got the Brits pissed-off, so they see us, we're of same colour...so go figure.
Look around you, it's happening everywhere isn't it? Even at school. Club committee elections and we see those with 'capabilities' and tend to shun some at the far end of the room. Is it that these people are simply uninterested?...or is it that they feel inferior towards them who claim throne, so to speak. Outside, they talk about those who are of different religions, and how one religion is better than the other. Those treated with more respect just because they LOOK better to be served than those who look like they came from the suburbs. Where can we plead equality?
Sometimes, it's the people who have the upperhand that are creating a remorseful image of their own people that makes the rest of the crowd shun the whole lot of them. Well thank you, we pay for your dirty jobs. I've had experiences in stores where they take a first glance at us, we deal for an item, and they talk to us like we're cave people, not knowing hell about what we're talking about. Sensure people, no oe deserves it. And they only go all please and thank yous after we show them IDs.
The point here is, no matter how much we preach togetherness, our physical differences create the first impression. And until we're smart enough to know where we stand, what are our rights as individuals and as a community, we'll only continue looking as shallow as th skin goes. Unless one realises one is only a humble nomad respecting the stay-dwellers, whils one stay-dweller respect the nomad as another settler, we'll stay this way.
This is just an opiniated text. No person of the living or dead was targetted in any offensive manner. Thank You
Digital Fortress Glenn Fredly - Januari
