I've somehow always like the idea of living n studying overseas... but only recently I realized dat being a foreigner, no matter where, isn't as easy n cool as it seems...
I often ask the foreigners at my uni, how do they find living in Malaysia?? how do they find the ppl aroun here??... n they all come up wit the same answer, saying dat we're very anti-social n prefer sticking to our own ppl... It is very very true... leave alone foreigners, look at us locals, there is a huge gap between the Malays, Chinese and Indians... this can be interpreted as most of us being more comfortable wit our own kind...
back to y we, the locals try to minimize out contact wit the foreigners... we're juz afraid of u ppl... there r so many rape cases n stuff like dat happening aroun here... we're not pointing fingers at all of u... but its the few rotten apples dat cause us to reject the whole bucket altogether...its better being safe than sorry...
but being mistaken for one of em, thus living in their shoes, i realized it really sux...
i was in a group assignment wit 2 black girls... 1 from Uganda n da other from Kenya... when we were out to complete a certain task for dat assignment... ppl assuming da 3 of us as internationals, they refused to even acknowledge our presence... they treated us wit no respect... n when we were trying to get our way aroun and ask for assistance, ppl aroun refused to talk to us and juz brushed us away...
i as a local felt very ashamed and hurt... imagine how wud they feel getting treated dat way everywhere they went... it mus really sux... i really sympathize for these ppl...
being away from home in a new society and all, i bet da least we cud do is welcome them and at least respect them as human despite their color and physic...
coz being taken as one of them juz for a few hours really made a huge impact on me both emotionally and mentally... put urself in their shoes n u'll understand wat they go through...
wat happen to Malaysians being well known as 'Masyarakat Sopan Santun'??? looks like all the values taught in school has only gone to waste... sigh!!!
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hye yum. i hate to admit it but kinda agree with the sopan n santun in m'sia. Some people are nice but still there are some others still stuck to believe that they are better than someone else. I guess that's humans. we can't change other people. hopefully if we love the others around us just as much, the love will grow. the only thing we could do is start with the people around us first.
ps- i just found u in facebook which lead me to your blog. :P nice post. i got mine but don't update it much. hoping u r well.
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