Just stating my personal opinions.....
Sunday, October 30, 2005 |  
ah yes.... school starts tomorrow.

hopefully i start writing better posts.

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Okay.. a lot of people mistake race for religion.

Not all malays are muslims, not all chinese are buddhists, and not all indians are hindus.

if we were to realy judge race for religion, then i should say that:

Malays believe in objects having spirits and all that jazz (i thought it was animalist, but that's so wrong),

Chinese are not buddhists,

and indians are buddhists.

Anybody getting worked up yet?

People confuse religion to be specific for just one race.... or rather.. ethnicity.

Cos i like the idea that Chinese and Malays are one race; Mongoloids.

*Danny Boey made it clear... we see more malays that look liek chinese and vice versa than we see indians looking liek chinese or malays, right?

( so i wonder why people complain that the Chinese are taking over this great old island from the Malays. It's just a family thing... lol )

Then there's that stereotype that Muslims must wear sarong.... and that songkok (the black hat).... which is wrong, really. Muslims in America and Australia sure as cheese look like any other Chrsitians out there; shirt and pants.

I think its nice to note that religion may be the same... but culture is diversified.

Religion is not attached to culture, i should say.

So it is totally fine, if we see a mosque, that looks like a chinese temple because of the achitecture.

So this is why i hate it when people say i'm trying to be "a Chinese" or "Chrsitian" by using shirts and pants or suits. Or worse, speaking English. (really, people pointed me out for that..)

Personally, Malay is not my culture. I didnt grow with sarongs or the language itself. i grew up with Sarawakians, for pete's sake! Those are like, Ibans, Dayak and Chinese, mostly.

Another thing is that i think ethnicity is quite restricting.

Because if you think about it, long before... people consider ethnicity like clans,i think.... becuase they have things in common.. like... looks... and stuff... and how they grow up. Like gangs, only much bigger.

So i think ethnicity is kinda... not fixed.

Dictionary.com states ETHNICITY as... er... ethnic character, background, or affiliation. (you get what i mean, right?)

So therefore... it depends on an individual's character, background and affiliation.

And if i were to really be an ass, i should say my ethnicity would be one of those westerners.

But id rather nt say that.. because ill get shot down by many people (since my head's in the sky..)

So we come to race.

So, the defintion (again from the same source), Race, is; A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.

which,... pretty much explains the Mongoloid FACT.

Thai people look like a mix of Chinese and Malays, Mongolians even look more so.

Some mainland Chinese also look like Thais or Mongolians.

So i guess.... Chinese and Malays.... we're a family. lol.

(personally, i think there's a few different breeds in the malay society....)

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And remember, religion is not culture... there are a few churches out there which look mosques, and mosques that look like churches (just without the cross). Like., Turkey, which is largley a Muslim-Christian society.

So things mix..

:)

So let's not judge religion by culture, or race, or ethnicity.

BEcause, really, the rest is bullcrap.

Religion should be the only thing that seperates people from each other.

But then again, that doesnt mean we cannot work together.

besides, all of the major religions encourage, well, making friends from other places.

So there.

Now, i end my rant.

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*Mongoloid (Dictionary.com) - Anthropology. Of or being a major human racial classification traditionally distinguished by physical characteristics such as yellowish-brown skin pigmentation, straight black hair, dark eyes with pronounced epicanthic folds (that's your single or double eyelid hoobla..), and prominent cheekbones and including peoples indigenous to central and eastern Asia. Not in scientific use.

lol, not in scientific use.
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