My teacher brought up racism the other day in class. He wanted to have a class disscussion and so, I went about with my classmates trying to figure out what we felt was happening right now. He came round to our group after some time and asked us what we felt. As my friends aren't really some who like talking, I of course tried to cover for them. But in doing so, I realised that whatever was coming out of my mouth was somewhat fascinating. I know you must be thnking, what a huge ego this gal has. But hey, I really mean it.

I feel that there is a subconscious and conscious state of mind where you either know that you are being extremely racist or, you do or say something racist, but you just don't realise it until you are told. There is also another category where I believe this culture of being racist is inculcated in you since the very beginning. Then, it would also be a sort of subconscious thing, because it's burried so deep in you, that you don't really know it's there. But the fact is, it it.

In multi-racial singapore, racism should be scarce, but wait a minute, it isn't really. why do I say this? Well, I'll tell you why. You see, even in today's day and she where the government should give equal rights to everyone, they do not allow malays or other races except the chinese to be pilots in some of their government agencies. Only just, did they allow in a malay. One. Out of how many? well, the reason behind this, I suppose, is because they do not trust the other races because they think that they wouldn't be loyal and would betray them and place singapore in a very tight situation where all of us could be endangered.

Well, let me say this. If a malay were to betray singapore, I'm very sure, the government would start refusing letting all races enter into these fields again. But, lets say it is a chinese who betrays us. Would they ban the chinese from flying their planes? No! of course not. The truth of the matter is, somewhere deep inside, we are all a little racist. We always look at the other races and start to try finding fault with them. It is in mankind's human nature that makes us find fauts in other people. That's the way life goes. Until we turn mother nature around, we will always have a racist country and racist citizens.