Right..Our genes may be Chinese but our cultural and educational
context will always be poles apart.Nature only plays one part,
whatever environment you grow up in will determine your outlook,
not the colour of your skin or any minute differences in your
DNA.It's sickening to hear such bigoted comments that we are all
Chinese and we behave the same way just because the colour of my
fucking skin is yellow.Singaporean is my culture and my ethnicity.I
am born in the Malay Archipelago and have grown up in a English
speaking home, with Peranakan relatives and family.How do you
reconcile this with a PRC national who has no knowledge of how to
live with a different race, let alone seen one when he was a
child?We are more cosmopolitan in the sense of racial immersion and
this will and has always helped to determine how we see
things.Clearly, the Chinks have a long way to go before they are
mature people who can have subtlety in speech and mannerism.
Roots will never be forgotten, but no one wants to dig them up and
give them a bear hug.Perhaps you might want to try it?Let's see how
opening up closets of old skeletons might please you.Human culture
moves forward, so we should stop bickering over origins and focus
on where we will end up.I pray that China will become a more
gracious nation, someone able to work alongside and not be a
brutish or a loutish state.Right now, they need to work hard, very
hard.
