First, i will describe the definition of “Racism”. According to Wikipedia, racism means “the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.”
In the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or get preferential treatment, while Reverse discrimination favours members of a historically disadvantaged group at the expense of those of a historically advantaged group. Racial discrimination typically points out taxonomic differences between different groups of people, even though anybody can be racialised, independently of their somatic differences. According to the United Nations conventions, there is no distinction between the term racial discrimination and ethnic discrimination.
Believe it or not, we still in denial of this situation. We says that there is no racism in our University. There is 3 major races in UteM. It is Malay, Chinese and Indian. Most Malays are Muslims, some chinese and Indian were Buddist, Hindu and Christian. I won’t say one of the races does racist, but all the races were racist. Dramatically, we says that we are living in multi-cultural country and we live in harmony. But, from my opinion this is totally BULLSHIT! Why Malays having lunch with Malays, chinese having lunch with Chinese and so does Indian. All of us pretend to be good each other, but we talk difference in the back.
Not all of the student were racist, I know that some of the student does not care about their friend’s beliefs and religion. We still having games each other, copying assignments, sets a group of team to do studies, but how much can we expect the student that doesn’t have much problem in racism?
I grew up in Malays “colony”, but I still got many chinese friends. I don’t deny that some of us don’t even have friends from other races. Everyone knows that Chinese and Indians don’t speak malay well, that is may be the promblem here. I don’t know how they could passed the SPM or STPM before. I think government should take this problem seriously. How could they live in Malaysia if they could not converse well in Malay? How could they passed Bahasa Melayu oral test? If we live in America, do we speak Malays or Chinese or Tamil? Does America have Chinese or Indian school? Think about it, why people in America converse well in English and why people live in Malaysia cannot converse in Malay well?
The biggest reason why we cannot sit on a table is our childhood background. Don’t deny that many of us live in our “colony”. Chinese live in chinese community, Malays live in Malays community and so does Indian. That’s why we cannot mix with other races. God created us with no difference, we are human who live in the same world, same country and same University, why should racism exist?
I have an Uncle and he is a Chinese. I normally lepak at his Kopitiam when I was in Alor Star. I like the way he taught his son. He always make sure his son involve in cocuriculum at school and choose Pengakap or Kadet Remaja Sekolah. He said that if his son choose other club or society, such as St. John Ambulance, he will always be with Chinese.
I don’t know why this problem accur, normally in University the racism should be stop. We are the seeds to brings Malaysia to our own way in the future. If we cannot stop racism, who will? Don’t live in denial.
