Discrimination

It's a fact that all of us discriminate each other. Be it race, gender, sexuality or even education.

Some might say they are not, but if you're to ask them to marry or fall in love with someone who is a different skin color than they are, they are more skeptical to say yes. Of course, this might not be true for all, but chances are high that everyone has a 'preference' of company for the things they wish to do.

Of course, we also tend to stereotype different people for what they do or might do.

Take the photo below for example.


This is probably due to American media portraying the African Americans as criminals and stuff all the time. I know this is not true at all, but we all laugh at these jokes. Yes, they are offensive but they are still fun.

I read a joke about Chinese, it goes something like this;

How do you blindfold a Chinese?

Use a dental floss.

Of course, it's not as offensive, but it's still funny.

Back to my point. People can't help being a little discriminating actually. It's how humans are. Screw skin colors and sexuality and etc. Just go back to the smaller scope. We take care of our best interest in life. When we're hungry we eat, when we're cold we do something to get warmth and etc.

If you're forced to choose between your life and your friend's life, I think the choice is pretty obvious, no?

So from this field, let's widen it a bit. We still have our preferred choices in life when we do things. Like for example, some of us like Japanese food and hates Vietnamese food. There's nothing bad about Vietnamese food, but it's preference.

You bring it to a bigger field and this is where some of us are more comfortable hanging out with friends of certain education background, religion or even.. well, skin color. It's a preference. Nothing wrong in it.

But the bad effect comes in when extremists or opportunists try to take advantage of this nature of life. Extremists are basically spawns from opportunists' propaganda. These people value their 'preferences' much higher and look down on other people's 'preferences' in life. Of course, extremists only behave so because he's very fond of his preferences, but the opportunists.. is usually filled with an agenda for his/her own benefits in the long run.

Sad enough to say, today in the world we're living in, extremists and opportunists are everywhere. Thus, there are always conflicts going on around which will take many years of education down the road to actually help solve.

Recently, I read a blog. She was a mother and she condemned the Israeli recent actions shared that she wants to boycott whatever organizations that is somehow linked to Israel. Somehow, one of her readers left a comment stating that she's not keeping to her words as her previous post showed her having coffee at Starbucks. The reader then shared that she not try to act glamorous and have coffee at Starbucks and instead should support local kopitiam franchise.

The mother blogger then wrote a new post replying to this comment in particular. She kept on harping on saying she's not at Starbucks cause it's glamorous (I have to admit, there's nothing glamorous about that) but because Starbucks is halal and she's not confident that the Halal certification for Old Town kopitiam is or not, as there are many claims that business operators sometimes fake these certs.

What she expressed next was atrocious. She ended her blog post telling her reader that as much as we should care for the Israel issue where the zionis are harming the Palestinian people, they should care more about the local zionis race harming her people.

When I read things like this, sometimes it just makes me wonder how bad the damage has been done by the early opportunists in our country in their attempt to seize power and wealth. Thanks to these opportunists' propaganda, carefully laid plans, 'controlled media', they managed to turn a mother, a loving mother to an extremist.

I am saddened by how bad discrimination has become in the country. :(

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The World Cup fever is here. Everywhere you go at night these days, you can find lots of people watching the World Cup at mamak, food stalls, pubs and bars. We can't help it since it's the biggest tournament for football ever and it only happens once every 4 years!


I'm pledging my support for France of course. Why? Zinedine Zidane played for France, and he was the guy who led France to victory against Brazil 8 years ago! Of course, back then, nobody really know about it. Thus I believed that France actually has a lot of hidden gems. I hope there's one for this year's World Cup.

Buttt.. by the looks of it, they're not going to make Round 2 where the elimination playoffs will take place.

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Cheers
Robb