How could you?

"Racism is inherent in our nature, because of the need for self-preservation.
The danger is only when racism in thought is carried out in a provocative, senseless and insensitive manner.
Such as Hitler's 'Final Solution' and the 1964 racial riots. These should be condemned.
However, I do agree that racial purity should be maintained so that bloodlines, remain untainted and undiluted.
I would not marry someone of another race. Nor would I allow my children to.
If we allow our races' bloodlines to be mixed, we will lose our distinctive features and cultures. Same race marriage should be encouraged to maintain racial purity.
Racism is alive whether we like it or not, and it's harmless as long as it's controlled.
- Loi Chin Wee Desmond (The Straits Times, April 23, 2005)



Moved by the understanding that purity of the German Blood is the essential condition for the continued existence of the German people, and inspired by the inflexible determination to ensure the existence of the German Nation for all time, the Reichstag has unanimously adopted the following Law, which is promulgated herewith:

Article 1.

1) Marriages between Jews and subjects of the state of German or related blood are forbidden. Marriages nevertheless concluded are invalid, even if concluded abroad to circumvent this law.
- The Nuremberg Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, September 15, 1935



There is much left to do in this world of ours without people like you making everyone take a step backwards with your way of thinking. Haslinda and Baljeet bring up issues which desperately need looking into, but by your choice of words like 'racial purity', and of 'bloodlines' remaining 'untainted' and 'undiluted', you drag us back in the time. Do you even realise how hauntingly similiar your words echo the ghosts of history? You just don't say things like "same race marriage should be encouraged to maintain racial purity" and not expect people to react.

Cracking race jokes among friends, especially with friends from other races, are to me, signs of a pretty strong friendship, of which I am privileged to have quite a few. But scratch the surface of things and you'll start hearing stories not unlike Haslinda's. I suppose it's hard for the majority of the Chinese population that makes up the majority of this country to be treated to the often subtle, sometimes outright discrimination that our friends in the minority races face.

But really, that's a lame excuse. Anyone who's stayed abroad for an extended period of time would have encountered at least one unpleasant episode of outright racism. Failing that, anyone who's got a ounce of empathy in their blood would instinctively know if they were in a situation which made their friends of other races uncomfortable. I can't remember the number of times I've heard the most racist of comments come out from people I considered friends, I'm ashamed to say I always let it slide, after today, not anymore.

The often brought up examples of racial discrimination in the job ads are often discussed but it never seems like anyone does anything about it. What's it to you if I'm Malay/Indian/Others? You want Mandarin speakers, I can speak Mandarin, I fulfilled every requirement you asked for, why you still tell me you looking for Chinese only? There is something desperately wrong with the system, we need to fix it, like now, yesterday.

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
— Unknown