a Chinese guy accousted an Indian looking guy who was out with a Chinese looking girl saying they should just stick to same race love and not prey on Chinese girls.
problematic on many fronts. not the least the girl as a prize or a powerless prey!
here is one guys response to this incident
Forwarding this thought provoking piece that landed on my WhatsApp:
“I think we should look at this more carefully. The Chinese chap did not express hate or animosity to those for other races nor did he say friendships cannot traverse racial boundaries. He did not even espouse the superiority of Chineseness. His position was simply that racial pride requires that races keep pure. Each race must remain separate; must travel within its own separate tube, separated from others. The waters in the tubes should not mix. Shocking, but why the surprise? Why the distraught wringing of hands.It's just a mutant strain; a variant of official policy.
A preliminary point first. A number of people who were shocked, would not bat an eyelid if the word 'race' were replaced with 'religion'. I know Roman Catholics to whom it would be anathema to marry a Protestant. I know Protestants who would oppose marriage to a Roman Catholic or other Protestants of the wrong sort. Each has an idea of what the waters in the 'Christian' tube should look like, and what constitutes a pollutant. Purity is critical. It is of course worse to marry out of your religion. To these people I ask: How does it feel like when your thinking is replicated but with race having pride of place instead of religion?
When I was a boy in days before enlightened knowledge of race, my school athletics coach designed personalised training schedules for two boys (one Indian and one Chinese) for a middle-distance event. The faster boy got more distance work while the boy with more endurance got more speed work. The race of the boys had nothing to do with it. It is different in the present, more advanced times. If two boys, one Chinese and one Indian are bad in Maths, they are palmed of to CDAC and SINDA respectively as their underlying problems must necessarily be race-based. The waters in the tubes cannot mix. Heaven forbid their difficulties are independent of race.
When I started work, my employer made a deduction for SINDA. I objected and asked for my contribution to go to the most deserving Singaporeans regardless of race. I was met with incomprehension. You help 'your' race, and stay within your tube. There was no such thing as a tube for Singaporeans generally. My offer to contribute to MENDAKI was also not permitted. The waters in the separate tubes don't mix; stick to yours.
In the early days before we learnt of the centrality of race, predominantly Chinese Singapore voted the Jew David Marshall as our first Chief Minister. As recently as 1981, the predominantly working-class Chinese-educated people of Anson voted in JBJ, a non-Tamil speaking Anglican Tamil lawyer. He didn't speak Malay, Mandarin or any Chinese dialects either; only the Queen's English. He still won. We apparently then did not sufficiently understand that race is central to how we vote, so the Constitution was amended to mandate this. GRCs were created. There are constituencies where candidates must be Indian to garner the Indian vote (assuming there is such a thing. I don't think so). But that's not all. A political party cannot simply pick an Indian as its candidate. No, that 'Indian' must be certified as as such by a committee to preserve the purity of Indianness (it has some other formal name, but that's its role). We must have purity in the tubes. The waters cannot mix.
(If there were a Turing test to determine Indianness, I'm sure I would fail. My answers are likely to be bunched together with those of my Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian and other Singaporean friends, particularly those I went to school and grew up with. Almost all of us would not be able to prove we belong to the particular race tubes designated for us. It is a fact I am very proud of.)
Some authorities decided that the Chinese tube was becoming polluted - too much English language and culture had seeped in - Shakespeare, possibly the King James Bible and such. Not enough Chinese language and culture. SAP schools were set up to inject a fresh dose of Chineseness and to filter out impurities.
This is where we are. We deliberately created this heightened race awareness and its attendant fixation on purity, so why the surprise at this Chinese chap who shows how far we have gone down the tubes? To change metaphor: We have nailed our colours to the mast and the ship has sailed. Are we happy now?”
