My mum was telling me how this doctor she knows doesn't look like a doctor because of his appearance and dressing. People who don't know him personally may never even thought he's a doctor. How funny people nowadays still judge other people by its cover even though our world is getting smaller day by day.

Still remember those news in the local newspapers about the increasing number of Black students in Malaysia and in some areas? Some people discriminate them just because some Black people are fraughts. So with some news about some hot sex stuff about Malaysians... is it alright to say ALL Malaysians are sex maniacs and extremely crazy about sex? Or something like that. I think that's discrimination. Regardless of skin colour and gender, these foreign people in Malaysia just want to get money and education and then go somewhere else to achieve their dreams. Have we forget that they too have dreams? And of course some people might dream of achieving them through means that are not 'approved' by society.

But on the whole... imagine yourself going to a foreign country to work or study and you receive lots of discrimination just because of your skin. What do you think and what are you thinking the moment you were discriminated? Can't imagine yourself. Ok. Let's try imagine your kids going off to an unknown country to study. Won't you be worried of your kids safety? Same thing to these foreigners. They too have families and they just hope they get remittants. That's all. And of course there is another side of the coin...

I read Dina Zaman's article in today's newspaper. How sad it is. It's also about skin colour. Why people must judge people on skin colour? Why some people take this issue as something so serious?? I read somewhere that god gives us so many colours because it's a lesson for us to get along with each other or something like that. I find that article very meaningful and I think I read it on an African site... Don't really remember.

And I wish our world is much more at peace and more matured in handling skin colour issue.

Budgerigar.
» randomjunk on 2008-01-03 10:40:37

Discrimination happens everywhere, it's just a matter of how much discrimination is undisclosed to the world. Even without foreigners, we Malaysians ourselves are discriminated in our own country.
» Nuttz on 2008-01-03 10:46:12

well, you know the thing about first impressions... its kinda like, if you dont know anything about the person, and you dont have time to, you usually judge them on what you see.
» crz4manga on 2008-01-03 08:44:47

oh i'm sorry about that. really, i am.

i don't know. why do girls have to be so needy & why do guys have to be so careless?

i ask myself that everyday....
» Jinaiah on 2008-01-04 01:38:27

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