I doubt I would. And I believe I had to try real hard.
How would you feel if you were discriminated against?
Report from Today
Dharmendra Yadav
Chua Cheng Zhan is a name that the people of Singapore, especially
its ethnic minorities, will remember for a while to come.
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He is a scholar of Singapore's prestigious public service, whose
views have given a new lease of life to the spectre of racial
insensitivity.
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Mr Cheng Zhan, a 21-year-old mathematics student at Northwestern
University in the United States, wrote recently in his online
diary: "somehow, the singaporean association here in my school has
become an Indian association. So gross. some more
non-singaporean."
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He continued: "ya. I discovered I'm so racist. at the club (under
lighting in which everyone is supposed to look good), i still find
indians and filipinos (dark ones) so repulsive n such a
turn-off."
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His derogatory remarks, and more, are now freely available on the
Internet.
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Something similar happened when Choo Wee Khiang, a member of
Singapore's Parliament from the dominant party, took advantage of
the privilege accorded to him by the House to make disparaging
remarks about the same group of ethnic minorities.
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He told his fellow legislators in 1992: "One evening, I drove to
Little India and it was pitch dark but not because there was no
light, but because there were too many Indians around."
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