Wednesday, March 2, 2011
'Anyone is guilty who watches this and does nothing'
There was once in my primary school days when a Malay classmate of mine and a Chinese classmate started insulting each other's religion. I do not really know what happened then as I was just walking past the school field and I saw them fighting and there were many people trying to pull them apart. As I approached them, I heard words like: DON'T MAKE ME STUFF YOU WITH PORK! SHUT UP, YOU YELLOW BANANA! MALAYS SUCK! THEY ARE NIGGERS! YOU JUST BATHED IN URINE, EH? It took me and a few classmates to talk them into stopping. Being primary school boys, we could not do anything much other than leaving this to the form teacher of our class. If I witness such incidents again, I will definitely go and stop those people, no matter I know them or not, racial discrimination is not a good thing to be spilling out of one’s mouth often.
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I think they did not start a fight just by insulting each other's race. Singapore is a multi-racial country after all. I think that they perhaps were angry with each other for a different matter and start to curse and insult each other's race only then. But still, i think we need to educate them that it is wrong to curse about other's race & religion, and should not be done no matter what.
ReplyDeleteIf this happens in our class, Nathan will just sit aside and watch the fun. :)
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you. No matter we know the person not, we should no let race discrimination or any other form of discrimination to happen. They should understand to appreciate others' differences, and put themselves in others' shoes. To think, and feel, how is it like to be discriminated against. How hurtful, how insulting it is. After that, if you feel that this is alright and you want to continue discriminating them, be prepared. You will one day be discriminated too, because you are selfish, self-centered, and you will find that these will affect yourself one day too.