Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Before I entered FASS, I have always imagined it to be like TPJC. Why?
Because my friends used to tell me that FASS has the most number of Malays compared to the other faculties. And so when I do a reality check right now, there are not that manyy anyway. I expected FASS to be like tpjc-town. Everywhere you turn there are Malays. Or maybe because there were too many Malays in TPJC?
Today's Sociology Lecture was on Race & Ethnicity. I am really disturbed with the way today's lecture was delivered. It is a perfect example of a highly educated intellect with minimal EQ. He made everything sound so pro-c, and kept on driving on the stigmas of several "races"/ethnic group except his own. Like.. "the grp of ppl who we associate as drunkards" or "the grp of ppl who we associate as lazy". Although there were no specific mention of "races", it is obvious isn't it. It is just unfair that you are using all these stigmas when not everyone in the community is like that. Even though you were trying to deliver an idea... It's not that I am overly sensitive.. But don't you have better examples? You are just drilling and reinforcing to everyone that, that particular "race" is lazy.
It is interesting to note that he avoided mentioning "Malays" in most of his examples, choosing to mention Chinese and Indian instead.. So much for CMIO...
And so I was in the bus, and my fellow events team member asked me... "so don't you have any Chinese friends?" after I told her that I cannot speak Mandarin. I was quite upset with the question because I don't think my friends and I look at ourselves and then draw very clear lines to show any boundaries. I don't think we look at ourselves as "Chinese, Malay, Indian or Others". Yes there's the occasional mention of eating halal food because I'm Malay(Muslim), or somebody has to attend a Chinese New Year dinner but other than this we don't differentiate our race. Is it because she was from an SAP school? I mean.. Jacinth isn't like that. Shaun isn't like that.. Melvin isn't like that.. And I'm sure most people from SAP schools are not like that..
So I really wonder.. Is this reality check number 2?
That most smart people are less capable in effective inter-personal communication
(which reminds me of Dr Loh S Y, the MO in camp last time)....
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