With the rising of oil and food prices, the Indonesian Chinese
should brace themselves for confrontation, in case there's a repeat
of the 1998 demonstrations, follow by riots.
dear googoo,
i think many many indon chinese will still stay put
even if another massacre happens.
The past has proven itself about human psychology and the
difficulty in migration.
1. Psychology : not that this is the same case, but even in
DESPOT controlled environments like N.Korea and Iraq, people living
under the duress and violence and inhuman treatment and injustice
and bullied by cronies and bootlicking dogs and news spindoctors
will not come together and rebel against tyrants. They
may have already been brainwashed such that their people will think
: "What to do?" "Its like dat lah" "no choice
lor" "that is life" "don't think about it lah"
"Cannot change wan lah" "no use wan lah"
People with this mentality are zombies brainwashed
to accept fate and life that their lives shall forever be
led by a dictator who is not transparent and does not respect
your freedom of expression and human rights and treat you like a
pawn like a slave to have to work for them till you die and
your money forever cannot taken out cos they will use it in
all kinds of expenses and no need to reveal to you. This
is what you want and this is what you shall get. Iraq is a
DEMOCRACY. Its people deserves what they get if that is what they
asked for. In democracy , who ever leads you, you have the
prime responsibility to determine that leader and thus, you deserve
the kind of leader you get if you do nothing about it
if you find him to be evil in disguise - aka a DESPOT.
2. CAPABILITY : to migrate out of the indon, it
takes
QUALICATIONe.
DETERMINATIONe.
MONEY.
GREED for better life.
Not many have these qualities.
Thus, I suspect many indons chinese will still stay there even
if next massacre arrives.
I may be right but also may be wrong.
Despite all the difficulties of migration, at least 1
0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 poreas migrated
succesfully each year as I understand.
That is a big number considering only so few are poreans
with big chunk consisting of foreigners and that I include PRs (and
their family tree hierarchy) and foreign workers and
tourists and foreign students.
what does it say?