Racism.
Occasionally I meet up for a chat with old friends about current events. Sometimes, the conversation steers to foreigners in this country.
Not the privileged ones. (You know, the white type.)
No, usually the disparaging comments are reserved for the Bangladeshis, the Nigerians and sometimes, the Indonesians.
The originators of such comments are frequently the same people who complain about being unfairly selected for discrimination.
I point out, that if they didn't like being discriminated against, perhaps the foreigners don't either.
This earned me blank looks, as if I was preaching an utterly foreign concept. No pun intended.
Perhaps this Merdeka, it might be a good time to reflect on how we perceive others, and how others may perceive us.
How will we change as a nation, if we can't even change ourselves?
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