i feel obligated to write this as i have to play my part as a malaysian. this is
my personal view, it's fine if you think differently
recently i received an e-mail from a friend on one racist remarks in facebook, and this morning i read in one blog about a letter to the government to clean up some race.
i don't like this issue at all.
i grew up mixing with not just malays. i have indian friends, chinese friends, sabahan & sarawakian. when i travel, i tried to be friendly with people i met, and thank God they were just as nice. at my department, i have fun & witty malay friends, i work with funny & hype chinese qa girls, my close friend at work is one fabulous indian lady. while at my campus, my close friend is wang the helpful lady, thiaga the talking machine, zainee the cynical guy. different race, different beliefs but we can sit and eat together, talking like families with no
worries or hatred at all.
and i am so very sure that you guys are just like me.
we are fine. we don't have problems with our friends from other races, we do respect each other. we love our friends and care for each other.
receiving such e-mails, with no idea whether what was written there is true or not, is really upsetting. we are fine. but some people out there, is trying really hard to break us apart. they couldn't do it directly, so they do it discreetly like this.
i don't blame people from being mad, of course when you read the email you'll feel mad, angry of why are people doing this to your race/religion. of course you'll feel insecure, (for example the cow head case). but look around, are we really doing that? we still go to mamak stall, kopitiam with no harm. we still can go anywhere in this country, we still can celebrate our religious festival, no harm at all.
so please, if you get such e-mails, such racist and full of hatred e-mails,
please don't forward it unless you are
100% sure of the reliability of the source. for muslim, like my boss said, if you are not sure of the source, whether it is true or not, it's like
spreading fitnah. what if it's not true? but you've forwarded the email to so many people, and there are some who believed it. niat mungkin baik, tapi better be sure of the source.
true, we do have differences, but as long as we
respect each other there won't be any problem
and to
those racist people, i am really sorry for u that u missed the opportunity to learn so many beautiful things from other beautiful people and their beautiful culture.
i really do
p/s: my company is against racism, there are loads of posters written
"there is only one race, human race"
