Racism
My Asian friend and I talked about racist last night. She claimed her people are racists toward other nations. They show some level of hostile to people from other nations. They either look down on them or feel distrust or uncomfortable around them.
I read article about how Asian are hostile toward each other and the western world except for Thailand regarding the long history of the West’s war over Asia. Since Thai are never colonized (the king protected their citizens away by conceding and avoiding the wars). Even among all Asians, wars never stopped. It’s not difficult to see how wars can cultivate the hatred and distrust among people. And the distrust is not eliminated by any kind of Union or connection within the region (like EU. The establishment of EU actually build up a bridge of multinational communication in Europe). The communications between Asian countries and Asian-West are still under-developed. I believe it’s a region needed more efforts.
Also, the so called “racism” is developed from patriotism. Well, this is understandable. The criticizing of other countries with friends going with beers always lead a tighter bond among people. It’s nothing to do with a real “racism”–which may lead to a more sever consequence like exclusiveness and unequal opportunities. After all, we even sometimes blames our friends in front of some other friends aren’t we?
