The minority group...

Last week was a memorable day in my life. Classes were cancelled and we were asked to RUN to safe our life due to the horrible H1N1 virus. Commuter station was flooded. Bus was like a tin of sardine fish and peoples were like refugees carrying big bags running out from the campus. Today 6^th August, our tutorial session was about ethnic minority groups – the blacks and the red Indian. Talk about the term "minority group", it often occurs alongside a discourse of the rights which gained prominence in the 20th century. Peoples prone to have different treatment and discrimination may directly perceived by individual in a minority group. Langston Hughes was a black American poet or writer and he has a lot of great story of how his own people discriminate by the whites and he is the main character of our discussion today. But why do people discriminate others races? Their skin colour? Their attire, culture? Or their language?

It is an unfortunate situation when you are facing this circumstance. Most of the human population is drawn to its own race and language and cultural upbringing. It is in a human’s nature to be this way. Lets say you were raised solely by a white family, then you will respect all the white culture, but one day you moved to a different black neighborhood where no one knew you, you are in trouble because you don't have the same skin color, you would be considered offensive and appear to be mocking the black race. It would be the same if vice versa.

The same goes to Malaysia. Malaysia is a multicultural country where peoples hand in hand and stay together harmonically. Yes, we are lucky to be in Malaysia. However, when you come to a class, you will see people sitting in different group in their own ethnic. That is the culture of human being. White discriminate the black and the black will discriminate the white. Even the Red Indian has been discriminate by the white or the black. I do think that these are driven by the ancestor. What they did serve a very enormous impact for us. Get rid of the old history that happen in the pass, I think they cant respect each others as it will still be the same after hundred years.