Deadlocks,

So, what is YOU POINT???

The FOUNDATION to COMBAT any kind of RACISM is

A) Multi-culturalism -> Aka, the WILLINGNESS to BELIEVE that there is MORE THAN one way to live a life. Aka, a person has the RIGHT to live the life that they want...

B) FAIRNESS -> CONSCIOUS decision to make sure that EVERYONE is treated EQUALLY in YOUR OWN personal dealing.

Aka, the Golden Rule,

Treat others like how you like to be treated.

A fish is not aware that of the water that they lived in. Aka, this is CULTURE.

Let's take some examples:

1) Group A BELIEVE that they are strongly religious. They BELIEVE that their religion is the ONLY PATH. They BELIEVE that people NOT in their religion is IMMORAL. Hence, they tried to IMPOSE their RELIGIOUS law on OTHERS. They DO NOT CONSIDER this as WRONG. They are trying to save OTHERS soul. Is this RACISM aka skin deep?? Or, it is DEEPER than that??

2) Group B BELIEVE in education. They BELIEVE any group that is NOT as aggressive or obsess with EDUCATION are backward and not as advanced. They look down on people that spend more effort on RELIGION than EDUCATION. So, what do you call this as??

Every CULTURES have a set of VALUE SYSTEM and EXPECTATION. ALL CULTURES are WRONG in one way or another. But, HUMAN BEINGS are LAZY. It is EASIER to try to FORCE their own set of CULTURE on someone else than try to UNDERSTAND and ACCEPT some other CULTURES. That is a MORE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM than a skin deep problem like RACISM.

Dreamer

P.S.: Malaysia is WHERE East meet West. We have a lot more different cultures in this country and we have NO DOMINANT culture. Ditto on religions. But, our awareness of CULTURES beyond our own is SLIM to NONE. Why that is TRUE??

This post has been edited by dreamer101: Jul 8 2010, 11:02 AM

Deadlocks,

Yes and no...

1) Yes, I believe that SOME PEOPLE are STUPID enough to believe that WHITE PEOPLE are SUPERIOR.

2) No for Chinese in Malaya and Singapore. During WWII, the British ran away instead of fighting the Japanese and left the Chinese to be MASSACRED by the Japanese. After this BETRAYAL, Chinese no longer consider the WHITE to be SUPERIOR. During our childhood, we even have a song on this.

3) For my family, we are SPREAD across 30+ countries in the world. So, we do not believe in this RACE stuff. But, we BELIEVE group of people that TREATED EDUCATION seriously tend to get ahead versus those that are don't.

4) Have you ever live and work oversea??

Dreamer

raul88,

Some people believe that their race is INFERIOR. They rather take that EXCUSE than improve themselves.

Dreamer

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Added on August 16, 2010, 8:27 amdax8,

I had answered the question.

Dreamer


This post has been edited by dreamer101: Aug 16 2010, 08:27 AM

Deadlocks,

I had lived in Western Country for many years.

We need to separate two things here. Let's take one thing at a a time.

1) Confidence

Even if a person has confidence, it can go either ways:

A) Arrogance

Our culture are so superior that we do not need to learn anything and improve. Our gene is so good that we have the talent. We do not need to work hard.

The GOOD and BAD in Western Country is that their concept of TALENT. They believe either they have it or not. On the average, they do not work as hard if they believe they are not bornt with it,

B) Confidence to improve

i) Our culture is strong enough and it will not be destroyed by incorporating and learning from other cultures.

ii) We have the gene that is good enough to learn anything. We just need to work hard on it.


And, we can go to the other sides to

2) Inferior feeling

A) Our culture is so weak that it needs to be protected or it will die.

B) Our gene is so weak that it is HOPELESS to believe that we can compete even if we work hard. We are DOOM.


Dreamer

P.S.: I had lived in both Malaysia and USA. IMHO, all cultures are BAD. It does not FIT any individual perfectly. We need to pick and choose what works for us from each culture. Aka, I am a multi-culturalist.

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Added on August 16, 2010, 7:12 pmraul88,

I did answer. It is YOU that cannot accept my answer. Fix yourself and every problem will be solved.

YOU are the problem.

Dreamer

This post has been edited by dreamer101: Aug 16 2010, 07:12 PM

Deadlocks,

The QUESTION here is do the person BELIEVES that their inferiority is

A) Cultural

Aka, something that they can learn and overcome.

B) Genetic

Aka, they are borned with this and they could NEVER COMPETE successfully with people with SUPERIOR GENE.

Now, there are people DO NOT BELIEVE in meritocracy to begin with. You are either born into RULING ELITE or MARRIED into RULING ELITE family or you are DOOM for life.

Dreamer

hazairi,

The QUESTION is

Is the MIND more important or the BODY??

Culture DRIVE the MOTIVATION aka the MIND.

Gene is ONLY the body.

If a person is NOT MOTIVATED to improve and utilizes their TALENT, superior body does not help.

On the other hand, even a person with INFERIOR BODY can improve and become something with MOTIVATION.

MIND over MATTER.

Dreamer

Folks,

Most things in life are not ABSOLUTE anyhow.

Most human beings have a package of genes that make them good for something and bad for something else.

If someone is a VERY GOOD at something, they will be VERY BAD at something else.

This is how it is in term of GENE.

The KEY of success in life is to make use of what you have. Have an attitude and mentality of NOT WHINING and TAKE RESPONSIBILITY of YOUR LIFE instead of blaming on OTHERS.

It is THE SAME with ANY CULTURE. ALL CULTURES are BAD. They are NOT SUITABLE for ALL circumstances.

Dreamer

hazairi,

Looking at Chinese in Malaysia, how many miracles have you find?? Plenty...

No, it has nothing to do with gene.

Dreamer

hazairi,

1) Then, there is NOTHING to prevent other people from copying the part of Chinese Culture that make them successful. The MOST IMPORTANT part is Chinese CARE about EDUCATION.

2) As per gene, there is no such thing as Pure Chinese anyhow. Northern Chinese are different from Southern Chinese. Southern Chinese are mixed with local native for at least 1,000 years.

Dreamer

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Added on August 19, 2010, 8:07 pmkeith_hjinhoh,

People has to CHOOSE to follow that culture.

By default, CULTURE dies with each generation. The NEW generation has to CHOOSE to follow it or it will be gone.

A culture has to be MEANINGFUL and RELEVANT with the NEW GENERATION or it will be gone.

All cultures have to went through this.

Dreamer



This post has been edited by dreamer101: Aug 19 2010, 08:07 PM

rvn_rvn,

Dude, did 50% of the Indians and Malays in Malaya were massacred by Japanese during WWII?? They did not. Chinese did.

It is NOT the fighting that I am talking about. It is the SUFFERING.

Dreamer

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Successful people make use of whatever that they have. Good and bad from their gene.

Mind over matter.

But, if you are from a culture that believe you are what you born with and there is NOTHING that you can do to improve that, you need to change your culture. Or, you are DOOM. No one else can help you.

Dreamer

Soul2soul,

Most beautiful people tend to be Eurasians. Mixed blood between Europeans and Asians. Or mixed blood from multiple races.

Dreamer

Deadlocks,

You do not get IT.

There are 2 kinds of people in the world.

1) Those that whine and believe that everything that went wrong is due to their gene.

2) Those that BELIEVE they could make a difference with their effort...

People that believe in gene DO NOT TRY at all. Hence, it is a self fulfilling prophecy. They are DOOM to fail.....

Ditto, people that believe they could do something with THEIR EFFORT will always DO SOMETHING. Hence, they could not fail....

It is ALWAYS in our mind......

We are what we CHOOSE to believe......

There are NO BAD GENE to begin with. Unless you are death because of your gene, it is always a trade off...

Let's take me as an example....

My family has VERY BAD gene on eye sight.... Me and my children are short sighted since 3 to 4 years old.. In my case, my family were so poor that I had no eye glasses. Hence, I could hardly see anything without sitting in the front row in the class. But, our BAD GENE on eye sight make us very good in hearing. Almost all in my family has PERFECT PITCH. Our gene make us good in music....

Dreamer

This post has been edited by dreamer101: Aug 29 2010, 04:29 AM