I'm a 20 yrold Kenyan student and have been in Malaysia for the past two years. In that time, I have had to deal with dirty looks, open stares and even outright rudeness just because of how I look. If I take a seat in a train, 1/2 the time, no one will take the seat next to me no matter how packed the train is and most of those who do will be hghly uncomfortable and face away from me. If I walk into a shop, I'll get startled looks and the salespeople will look at each other (i can just hear them thinking "you serve him!") before one approaches hesitantly to assist me. When I actually make conversation with anyone, one of the first questions they ask me (doesn't matter if it's a salesperson, fellow commuter or a taxi driver) is "when are you going back to your country?" I had to perform an internship stint at a certain company and interns from Holland, Japan...were welcomed way more warmly and fit in better than I ever could. I deal with this every day and it hurts. Why Malaysians? Why?
2007-01-21 00:34:46 · 6 answers · asked by Liwah Farah 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I'm speaking about West Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak are very tolerant.
The Indians are usually quite ok but the Malays and, particularly,are incredibly hateful. Most not all.
2007-01-21 00:52:21 · update #1
Yes, it does exist. I've seen it myself.
Why? Maybe there were a lot of black people caught in crimes in Malaysia or something. I don't know. But it doesn't excuse their racism.
2007-01-21 00:58:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have you gone to anyone there with the understanding and neutrality to decipher the root of the problem. Obviously there is something about Kenya that is troublesome to the Malaysians. What has your country done or is doing in order to create this animosity towards you. It would be my guess that there is political discord occurring between the two nations as it usually is at the bottom of all garbage heaps in the world. Politicians have a way of creating a quagmire for the good people. Americans have given their sweat and blood to peoples of the world to help but unfortunately thanks to the politicians much of the world despises Americans. It's sad really.
2007-01-21 00:51:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
historical Egyptians have been in certainty black. The previous kingdom replaced into formed by using migrants from the decrease nile from cutting-edge-day sudan and the Egyptian civilization and Nubian Kingdom went hand in hand. Now by using the top of the previous kingdom, the commencing up of the hot kingdom and the fall of historical egypt interior the hot kingdom, Romans had began invading the country. word that this replaced into hundreds of years after the previous kingdom which consisted of blacks and by using the time Egypt fell, maximum of its inhabitants have been in certainty, afro-Asiatics, and Europeans. Now as for South Africa, I have no difficulty with whites inhabiting Africa, the only difficulty is that for the final 4 hundred years white south africans have governed south africa under an iron fist and trampled over the 2nd type blacks as late using fact the Nineteen Nineties. Now that issues have rotated, the hands have started pointing to the blacks using fact the oppressers. So heavily provide up complaining. as quickly as I went to south africa (i'm Kenyan) i replaced into horrified by using the quantity of open racism I observed, I envisioned racism yet i did no longer assume it to be that open and widly standard. The racism I observed as white against black and that i wouldn't in any respect help blacks who have been anti white yet I do have faith that SA desires an pressing reform. Whites and blacks could combine themselves for the greater advantageous stable of how forward for SA. I observed little or no integration and all of us understand that the full seperate yet equivalent crap does not artwork
2016-10-31 21:55:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i lived in east Malaysia many years in kota kinabalu Sabah and Labuan FT, i have never seen even one time racism directed towards our African brothers or sisters. are you getting racism from the ethnic Malay or Chinese? Malaysia has a reputation as being extremely tolerant with race and religion, hence the huge Christian minority
2007-01-21 00:42:08 · answer #4 · answered by lat0ria 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is how the English feel in the European Union
2007-01-21 00:39:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
evrybody has hatetrid even americans on americans if they give you a dirty look doesnt matter just walk away let them be haters!
2007-01-21 00:38:45 · answer #6 · answered by ™oh..melissa! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋