About a year ago, i was introduced to the concept of 'political correctness', according to oxford dictionary, it is define as the "careful avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against". A good example would be calling the African American the N word. Or maybe, labeling a person as 'sweet and sour pork' when you were shown a picture of Asian guy. Or even, greeting every single Asian-looking students Konichiwa.
If you are lucky enough to live in a country that the majority of the population has a different skin colour compare to you, then you would know these things are really happening, and yes, i was greeted with Konichiwa god knows how many times.
Political correctness has been a popular topic for the past 2 years. One of the election candidate even use it in his proposed policy. I am not too sure if he was elected, but certainly it is a topic that worth looking into, especially with the fact that i am always at the socially disadvantage side, regardless where i would be living (although someone argued with me that singapore is the only dreamland for us, the yellow-skin group).
Political correctness arises as an issue in NZ due to the mass immigrants that calling this 4-million-population country as their home. Currently there is as much as ~15% of the population are not from the initial European and Maori descendents. 15% is a significant amount of people that can topple a government, and definitely the ruling party will not let it happen. However, being concern about the political correctness is totally different with applying it. A politician that implemented an immigration policy that prohibit Chinese from gaining citizenship, can changed his mind and calling himself a 1/4 Chinese prior the the election. Amazingly he was elected and currently is the Minister of foreign affair. This is definitely politically incorrect. But as the people still greeting me with Konichiwa, i strongly doubt that anyone would give it a damn...
bringing back the spotlight to malaysia, We, the malaysian chinese are not very far off either. Calling the dedicated Indian 'keling' or the Malay 'tee-go' are equally political incorrect. But it was never an issue, because our countryman never think that it is wrong. It never concern the government, because we are living peacefully. As long nothing like13th of May occur, it is fine to discriminate one another. As long as no mainstream media report about racial issues, we will forever be the harmonic society that is 'Truely Asia'
As a multiracial country, it is amazing that how many of us did not understand the culture of other ethnicity group. I was labelled as nuts and radical when i tried to understand Islam teaching. Thank god nobody call me a terrorist when i try to look for a simple translation of Al-Quran. I never like people judging the others base on the category that they belong to. i was in true agony when i heard a comment from a 60-year old Canadian lady that US-affiliated countries should just banned any muslim entering their country. However, a true scar in my mind was caused by comment from a good number of dedicated Christian friend of my. As they were telling me about forgiveness of god, they were happily shouting hooray as the Israeli annihiliating the state of Palestine.Instead of forgiveness, they told me that Israel deserved to give revenge on the betrayer of Palestinian over few incidents. I regret for the shallow understanding of bible of them, and certainly they never do well in their history either. As they idolising the Jews, they were so blinded that he did know that Judaism never acknowledge the existance of Jesus. Neverthelss, ignorant might be a bliss in these issues, as much as i want to change to world, what can i do is nothing but babbling over things that i can never change.
Political correctness will never be introduced to Malaysia, because that would cause our ruling party lost the ability to play their triumpt card - racial issue. i've been always predicting that the descrution of our society would occur near my mid 50s.Many factors lead to my conclusion, but it was the radical mindset of UMNO youth make me believe the destruction will come earlier than that. UMNO youth just sems to be enjoying the feeling of Chinese with no mercy and yet received limited concequences from me. The former leader of UMNO youth, Hissamuddin was once standing on top of the lion statue in front of MCA hall waving Malaysian flag in triumpt, and he still managed to win the election with very small margin. If a son of former great PM could do such thing, things that the youth could do is definitely beyond imaginary
the violent videos were debated heavily not so long ago, but just like any other issues, no significant followup have been made by the ministry. I was in particular interest on the violent issues in UPM. it was not because of the video, but was because of the media conference that held by the Dean of UPM. A group of Malay students were caught on video bullying (i would acually called it a harrassment that is against the law, if there is any) a female trainee journalist. No punishment were given to the group of students, as the Dean said that video only managed to capture a small fraction of incident, as the investigation group know where what was happening.
He was then labelled the incident as 'arguement between students that was inevitable, it was proven by the fact people that were surrounding them were quite relax about it' and the female student was fell down by accident as clearly no student would hurt a lady. Then a journalist argued that it was clearly they were shouting at her. The Dean replied by saying they have seen the video, it was clearly that they were cheering, as the orientation just over, they were relatively high, that's why they were cheering abnormally loud. The journalist not satisfied with the answer, but the Dean continued by saying 'they were cheering and singing Asrama theme song with high spirit, of course it would be loud'. At the end of the conference, the Dean praised the investigation team for solving the problem efficiently and when he was asked if the university would repay for the camera that was broken due to the incident, he smilingly answer that she can always tried and claim it, but it was her who felldown and break it, the university will take it into consideration.
whoever that had watch the video would be definately amazed by the wisdom of the head of local university. Education shaped the future of our country, and this is how they are shaping it. Malaysia boleh!
joyful joyful
As our fellow countrymen reluctantly back to the polluted cities for their living, students like myself, who are undertaking academic level education under NZ/OZ system have yet again entered the examination period. This is perhaps the only period that libraries are more popular than the local pubs. As i am seeing more and more friends of mine begin their mentally breakdown phase, i am beginning to wonder why there is some people can deal with stress positively while the others couldnt. To be more specific, why do females seems to be more easily stress than man?
There's actually a lot of research out there to look for the reasons that we stress. There is this interesting research saying that people that grind their teeth while they sleeping are less likely to be stressed as they released they stress by grinding. Personally i am quite fond of this new theory as both me and my second sister grind out teeth badly since young. And believe it or not, both me and my sister can handle stress relatively well, and there is not many people that actually have seen us stress. Never in my life ever near the stage or nearly mentally breakdown. However, there are at least 4 of them, all females, that are closely related to me, seems to be streessed easily and the fact that they all did actually fell into the stage that requried medication worried me a lot. I've tried many methods to help them to improve their stress management skills, but they just seems to be lacking the talent to master it.
If the theory is true (its call Bruxism by the way), i wonder if there is any pharmaceutical company that will produce medicine that make people grind teeth.:)
There's actually a lot of research out there to look for the reasons that we stress. There is this interesting research saying that people that grind their teeth while they sleeping are less likely to be stressed as they released they stress by grinding. Personally i am quite fond of this new theory as both me and my second sister grind out teeth badly since young. And believe it or not, both me and my sister can handle stress relatively well, and there is not many people that actually have seen us stress. Never in my life ever near the stage or nearly mentally breakdown. However, there are at least 4 of them, all females, that are closely related to me, seems to be streessed easily and the fact that they all did actually fell into the stage that requried medication worried me a lot. I've tried many methods to help them to improve their stress management skills, but they just seems to be lacking the talent to master it.
If the theory is true (its call Bruxism by the way), i wonder if there is any pharmaceutical company that will produce medicine that make people grind teeth.:)
negaraku, cintaku
Never in my life heard of any ruling leader write down notes personally on what the former leader is not happy with. If the rumour is true, then he is better off by just listening to his son-in-law, at least he is part of the family, and the public would not know.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
apparently our government not too sure about the latter.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
apparently our government not too sure about the latter.
沉睡森林
what can a guy do when he is bored?
idea 1: play computer games - idea rejected: you need to do assignment
idea 2: go out clubbing - idea rejected: you need to do assignment
idea 3: go chill out with buddy - idea rejected: you need to do assignment
idea 4: watch youtube - idea rejected: you need to do assignment
idea 5: sleep - idea rejected: you need to do assignemtn
idea 6: blog for no reason - idea accepted: there's nothing else u can do besides your bloody assignment......
sigh, i knew it! 100% internal assessment paper is t worst~
idea 1: play computer games - idea rejected: you need to do assignment
idea 2: go out clubbing - idea rejected: you need to do assignment
idea 3: go chill out with buddy - idea rejected: you need to do assignment
idea 4: watch youtube - idea rejected: you need to do assignment
idea 5: sleep - idea rejected: you need to do assignemtn
idea 6: blog for no reason - idea accepted: there's nothing else u can do besides your bloody assignment......
sigh, i knew it! 100% internal assessment paper is t worst~
red card
when one's talking about 'red card' the first impression that comes into people mind is that it is a card that send a sport player out of the playing field ( n perhaps for most Malaysian, red card is when Zidane use his head knocked on Materrazi's face :) ). Maybe a lot of people did not realise that most sports DO have red card system, but i am quite sure hardly anyone knows about the latest defination of red card.
red card is a system that is commonly applied to young university students in New Zealand. Here's how it works: a group of people(can be formed between your friends, or maybe between all your flatmates), each of them will be given a chance to pull out their red card once a year. When that person pull out the red card, everyone else in the group must come and gather with that person regardless where you are. Then eveyone must obey and do whatever that person what to do, as long as everyone got really drunk at the end of the day...usually they r really really creative in thinking what to do, for example, i've seen a group of them wearing swimwear run around the town in a bloody cold day, but they were too drunk to realise how cold it was :)
isnt it lovely?
red card is a system that is commonly applied to young university students in New Zealand. Here's how it works: a group of people(can be formed between your friends, or maybe between all your flatmates), each of them will be given a chance to pull out their red card once a year. When that person pull out the red card, everyone else in the group must come and gather with that person regardless where you are. Then eveyone must obey and do whatever that person what to do, as long as everyone got really drunk at the end of the day...usually they r really really creative in thinking what to do, for example, i've seen a group of them wearing swimwear run around the town in a bloody cold day, but they were too drunk to realise how cold it was :)
isnt it lovely?
days of sober
i was hung over quite badly on the next day. for the whole day, i could barely eat anything. the feeling is really crap...n i felt like i am still halucinating. things are still unreal to me. things only back to normal after about 30 hours of rest....
then i started to laugh at myself o f what i did...some friends that know bits of the story starting to make fun of it, but i am okey with it, as i make fun of them all the time :) . then my flatmate came out with this really interesting theory - what if i got picked up by a desperate gay guy instead of safety patrol car? then i started to imagine what would happen to me. Imagine when i opened my eye in the morning, my ass was sore and the person that sleeping next to me was a fat chubby guy with a moustache,AAHHHHHHHH..... that is so gross~~ i wonder if it DID happen, i would become a gay guy, bisexual, phobic to male or a crazy dude...
THANK goodness i dont have to figure that out.....
then i started to laugh at myself o f what i did...some friends that know bits of the story starting to make fun of it, but i am okey with it, as i make fun of them all the time :) . then my flatmate came out with this really interesting theory - what if i got picked up by a desperate gay guy instead of safety patrol car? then i started to imagine what would happen to me. Imagine when i opened my eye in the morning, my ass was sore and the person that sleeping next to me was a fat chubby guy with a moustache,AAHHHHHHHH..... that is so gross~~ i wonder if it DID happen, i would become a gay guy, bisexual, phobic to male or a crazy dude...
THANK goodness i dont have to figure that out.....
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