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Race and racism are quite different. Regardless of how much inter-racial marriages, race is in our blood.
Racism concorts a negative term.
We should do away with stating race in our identity cards. If it us so important why is it not in our passport?
Balji said his grandson is shy to speak Mandarin though he studies it. My granddaughters study Mandarin but I have not heard them speak it. I don’t know why.
Upbringing? Go to any school compound and observe. Which is mre: groups of friends of different races or groups of same race?

Let’s not forget that God has created us. Can you imagine if God decided to change our colors overnight. Chinese turned dark and Indians light. 😅

Until now God never revealed  his true colour because he knows he made a mistake creating humans.

The caste system in  India

.The Indians taught civilisation in South East Asia. The word Singapore is Indian! Put that in your skull Singapore Chinese!

If ones blood is other than red. It is a different story. If it is red than we are one human race. To hell with racism!

This discussion is so awkward and silly with western woke liberal innuendos laced all over it - IBID 'DARKSKIN VICTIM BLAME'. Lina Lewis is speaking from a high pommel horse, spewing verbal gymnastics, glossing over her inherently prejudicial perspective on dark skinned Indians or Dark Skin period, with racist tropes. Balji, on the other hand, is ashamed to call himself an Indian, trying his best to tear away from the 'Indian' label, calling himself a malayalee Kerala-n instead, as tho Kerala is a planet on its own, in the dumbo solarsystem, Kerala, btw, is actually a southern state in India..Duh? Sooo, the crux of the matter is, we all have racist lens, thus don't fret and even try defending the dark skinned Indians. Racist trope-ping is NOT one way
😂😂😂. Indians say the same racist thing about Chinese, Malays, and even other Indians too, eg, a race hvn dirty smelly tissue ass, kaum malas, takde akal, suka rogol anak sendiri, low caste estate pariah-yan etc bla bla bla, yada yada yada. Indians also, contrary to normal Singaporean behaviour, peg their noses when a Chinese or Malay gets into an elevator, and they also thank all God's tht they were not born Chinese, Malay or Darker skinned but yet fawn over the mat salleh colonizers. So don't worry, it's more tht Indians look down on other races and oddly, on other Indians too, like Balji.
This mindset is because they know their worth and place in the global economy and hegemony. Don't need to defend the Indian Diaspora, which has been around since 200 years BCE. The Pandya, Cholas, and Kalinggas, are empires tht spanned across Asia, plying their culture and treading the spice trade route from India to Greece via Siam, Temasik, before Christ. Just saying.
We are all human apes preoccupied by greed, tribalism and hegemony, hellbent on destroying earth and it's real habitat creators - poor animals, we look through the narrow human lens, tht we forget our place in the universe. Pure hubris.

New generations have to learn more from elders to know what and how basic harmony are, even own race also discriminate themselves or else why china past leader mao did to his own innocent chinese people during his rule that starved and tortured killed his own innocent chinese people and destroyed precious ancient chinese artifacts

All human are dirty educated species,  don't mean so-called " expert or professors or whatever name or degree they achieve will automatically translate into well behave and civilised being, if not why world are getting more evil and greedier and messier all the works of living species.

There is no racism when you are one on one friends with someone of another race , but the moment it involves society as a whole , peer pressure and racism creeps in .
When you are the only one different from the others you are often excluded or you feel you are excluded .
If you have only one friend named Sam then you refer to him as Sam , the moment you have two friends they become the Chinese Sam or the Indian Sam , or the tall or the short one , or the stingy one or the generous one , or the trustworthy or untrustworthy one .
It's hard to get away from racism esp. if you have leaders and politicians using racism to further their personal agenda .

03:40 Mr PN Balji: If racism existed in Singapore, then I would not have risen in my career to the level that I rose.

So the argument given is - since I have not personally faced something, it doesn’t exist?

I am not interested in racism bs, I am only interested in looking after myself

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My primary school disciplinary master Mr Chelliah told my class openly Don't ever call me a black snake. It's alright you call me a black panther.

Being racist has, unfortunately, been part of human history and culture for a very long time. Different races and communities have always had their own names, jokes, and stereotypes for one another. Don’t keep every word in your heart, and don’t let every criticism offend you. Sometimes criticism is simply part of how people talk and interact across different cultures.
What matters is that schools teach children properly: respect, equality, and understanding. Violence, however, is never acceptable, and that is why Singapore has strict laws against it.
Don’t let historical attitudes create anger between people today. The younger generation is increasingly less interested in these old racial divisions. The more you criticise every little thing, the more you keep the old divisions alive. That’s history lah — learn from it, understand it, and move on.

I’m a Chinese senior.  I went to a mission school that had all the 4 ethnicities represented in my classes.  Today im glad I was educated there.  
Nobody is beneath me bc if I think this way, there’s always going to be someone else above me!

what is apu nene?

Lets not sugarcoat.  Racism  exist very strongly in sg.
Indians in particular are a common target cos u can see indians in every level of society meaning
One can be a dish washer but the other is the chairman of  a top mnc . Its true that most high profile companies in the west are lead by them . Example- adobe/ ibm/ micron/ google/microsoft/ cisco/pay pal/ Lam research/ berrkishire holdings / banking giants   its a super long list.   Us congress full of influential american  of indian orgin.  From harward to nasa to top university deans in usa/ toip doctors / lawyers  are  indians.   The richest in europe is an indian orgin  family ( hinduja group and mittal)  . Richest in asia are ambanis
So  it tells something about this people .  Board members will not pay 200M Per year to sundarpichai  if he just wayang  like in sg nany say indian just talk only (   then i wonder what  stop a local from  wayang and get paid 300 million) .  Lot of entreprenurs like vinod khosla who is multi billionaire is from india .

So it says a lot about this peoples intellectual capacity/ academic brilliance/ leadership capabilities   to run  global giants.  U cant simply wayang..

Tesla self driving tech chief  is an indian named ashok .. he is the brain child behind autonomous vehicle.  Open ai full of indians  .  Nvidia is investing 200b in india on ai developments  for next 5yrs using indian brains.  Nivida didnt invest india  cos it has cheap labour.. if then then should have gone to  vietnam or indonesia.      The level of intellectual capacity to do highly intricated  stuff are available in india..    and these companies are paying very good salaries ( much more than sg)  in india  itself ..


So it means  u can see an indian making prata for u . U also see an indian own  an etntire street in london or newyork ..  the scale is so large

This people has acheived compare to other races hence its normal that there is all kind  of  prejudices  against them

Balaji  keep stating about his roots in kerala.
Kerala has one of the best quality of life  in india.   The average good middle class in  kerala  lives way better than some on living in landed house in thomson .   The kind of houses they build with high quality materials in kerala  are just one level ahead .
Blessed with  lots of green and water ways.  Its a good  state no doubt .

If am not wrong. Malaysian ex pm  mahathir dad were from malabar region of kerala.  Ex president of sg devan nair has orgins in kerala. Supreme  judge sudershan menon / mp vikram nair  has kerala orgins
Malays are no way closer genetically to arabs.. malayan peninsula is all together different

Qataris are bedouin etnics.  They were all camel riders before oil were discovered. Similarly  people of dubai are not arabs either   arabs are orginally tribals ..

Similarly  there is no anmerican  its a nationality not ethincity .  Orginal inhabitants are  red indians.  All others r migrated from europe / middle eaat/ south east asia

Similarly india is a country of migrants ..indian is a nationality  not ethnicity

During sha revolution of iran and even prior that many iranians  migrated to india.. they r called parsis . There r jewish settlments in kochi kerala / mumbai/ himachel .  indianstate of goa were under portughese  hence many has mix blloods. Pondi cherri state was colonised by french.   State of delhi were rules by persian/ ottoman kings
North west of india has many diffrent kings
North east people look chinese/ tibetan/ burnese/ japaneseabd korean but they belongs to india .  Central india is again diffrent.   South india again diffrent.

So india itself united states of many states ( 36 states / 7 territories/ many islands. 3.2million sqm land  5000+ years of history  similar to china)

The whites came to india 500 yrs ago  to loot  its resources and wealth. They ruin the country.  British museum full of indian artefacts.   British crown still do not return the most expensive kohinoor diamond  they loot from an indian princess ..


So yea  before we divide ourselves based on color/ religion whats not. Its good to know the history of a country  and our neighbouring countries
Oh skin color-  chinese are very yellowish  for many westeners.  Thats y some australians racist people call them yellow bananas
Real snow whites- are from  scandanavian countries like sweden / finland cos they do not  have melanin cos out 12 months 11 months they have no sun.  So they dont have  melanin producing hormons. Its look like some one vitiligo

Just as a joke- have u ever seen a chinese women winning a miss world / universe .   Its won 6 times by india venezula / 3 times by philipimes./ africa   All of them are dark skinned

Have ever seen a top models of versache/ gucchi/  chanel a chinese. .. there r  but little mostly dominated by africans naomi cambabell/ tryra banks/  yasmine  some  brazilians or east europeans.  They intentional include some chinese face due to large markets of china( marketing)
Indians- u can see black/ brown/ fair / very fair to white llooking men and women with green eyes/ grey eyes  light brown eyes / blue eyes .  Its due to their ethinicity    

Some time indians thenselves do not understand / cant recognise  other  indians

Arabs are oginally  has very dark skin tone cos the region is full of dessert. So do africans

U can see people of indian.orgin are prime ministers / president of another country - mauritious/ portugal/ uk / ireland/ fiji islands and many other countries.    But comparotively  u dont see much chinese orgin being a pm  other than china/ sg.  U dont see much chinese orgin leadimg ceo of gkobal companies.  Very little in comparison

Thats not to say indians are superior over others  but fact  doesnt change though
And my beautiful wife is chinese though 😂😂😂.
She loves everything indian .  From food to dress

Then i tell her once u go indian  then its hard to turn back .   Ha ha ha

Very entertaining, amusing, funny!