Malaysia- Whither Goest Thou?

Apart from CLEO and Harper's Bazaar, I also read magazines such as TIME and Newsweek.

The most recent issue of TIME magazine contains a very interesting article that immediately caught my attention (page 22, if you're also a subscriber). It's an article about racial discrimination in Hong Kong. Here's a little excerpt taken from that article:

Racism in the prosperous former British colony doesn't simmer into violence as it has in towns in northern England. Nor has it been institutionalized, as with laws that favor the ethnic majority in Malaysia.

Upon reading that sentence, I was like, "Oh wow. My country's famous..."

But then, it's not exactly a good thing when your country name had been mentioned in an article from an internationally-circulated magazine with a title that contains an ominous-sounding word: "The Racism Fighter".

Besides, the manner in which that sentence had been worded had not sounded particularly uplifting either.

The moods of many Malaysians have been unsurprisingly somber recently. Right before our eyes, we're seeing the country being slowly, but surely, torn into bits.

Back to that article from TIME magazine, the "racism fighter" in question is an unassuming woman by the name of Fermi Wong. She aptly quoted: "No one is born racist. Discrimination is learned."

'Tis a sad, sad time for many people out there in North Korea Malaysia.

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