Political Correctness

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!