Sick unto death

I'm getting damn bloody sick of the racial politcs in both the USA and Malaysia.

I think anybody who brings up skin colour in politics any more should be beaten, stabbed, and drowned in a vat of green paint.

I've lived in the USA for a total of 9 years of my 25. The first time I came here we lived in a Chicago suburb. I entered a 8th grade class with white and black kids and a Chinese teacher. Pretty "muhibbah". Even though I was the only Asian student, nobody made me feel uncomfortable for that.

9 years on I'm bitter, enraged at ignorant hicks calling a churchgoing Christian born and raised in the USA a "Muslim", "Arab", and "terrorist", and increasingly paranoid about closet white supremacists.

No, it's not just paranoia. I sat at dinner with my boyfriend and some of his friends and heard one of them say "Someone needs to kill him" and others agree. I can't stand the thought of breaking bread with that guy ever again.

Racism in Malaysia is alive and kicking too, but it's a more familiar species of demon...I can't explain why but it's easier to deal with psychologically. Maybe because the bulk of the bastards aren't calling themselves Christians. I can't stand the sheer hypocrisy.

I just want to finish my studies and get the hell out of here.

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NB: Sorry, need to clarify something. I have a number of American friends who support a certain political party and I don't mean that everyone who supports your political party is a closet white supremacist - obviously, in that case I wouldn't be dating a supporter of that party. But some of your fellows have been saying appalling, inexcusable**, hate-filled things, and the leaders of your party have been doing next to nothing to stop it.

** Had to clarify due to a comment someone posted on my Facebook note: The inexcusable thing I am referring to is the calling for the murder of an innocent man.

Of course political campaigns involve plenty of mudslinging and insults that would be unthinkable in any other social situation (except perhaps sports). Advocating murder crosses the line. Murdering someone for political reasons is essentially terrorism, and that's what some of these people would like to see.

Hybridisation

Some science fiction story I read a while ago (I think it was David Brin's "The Uplift War" proposed that in the future almost everyone will be a near-uniform shade of light brown - that is, ethnic groups will pretty much disappear due to mixed marriages. I doubt that will happen. I don't have any structured argument as to why...just a feeling that people will cling to ethnicity and race will persist long into the future.

Even space exploration and colonisation, should they ever happen, will tend to follow rather than erase ethnicity, since nations will end up claiming planets and constructing space stations by themselves, once there's enough to go around.

What I've been noticing is that certain kinds of mixed relationships tend to be unidirectional for the most part. There are lots of East Asian women (ethnic Chinese, Japs, Koreans) married to white men, but no E. Asian men married to white women that I know personally, and only one such couple that I know of. On the bus and around town here in Madison, I see lots of black guy - white girl couples, but I haven't seen any going the other way.

I don't know enough about black and white culture in the US to speculate about the latter, but I can come up with theories about the former till the cows come home haha.

I dunno lah...if I'm going to fulfil any stereotypes about Chinese women and white guys, let me be the arse-kicking kungfu assassin babe.

There's a frigging EPIDEMIC of yellow fever at my church. It's kinda funny.

On my mother's side, my sibs and I are the only Chinese grandchildren because my mum's younger sisters married, in order, an Englishman, a Malay, and an American. It's rather ironic that it's my Malay cousins and not us who can speak Mandarin, however, because they went to Chinese school. I feel so bananafied.