Let's tok about prejudice and the Taiwan Tank's way of doing things today.
Ahem... let's start with a relatively lighter topic shall we? Prejudice. Ok. For those ardent TaiwanTank Fans out there who has been fervently supporting this blog page, you should be pretty familiar with my dislike for girls tat keep thinking ang mo men are better and look down on asian man overall. Why do i say that? NOPE, it is not of the fact that i can't get myself any hot chic or wat not. But i hate this kind of generalising and it is so blardy unfair. And oso, i am tokking abt those kind of girls like SPGs, which kinda believes everything ang mo is good and everything asian is bad kinda attitude. No no no. This is a very bad kind of thinking. very sickening. SO. Why do i tok about this today? well, here is a story to share. The characters involved are heavily disguised to protect the innocent and possible riotings. HAHAHA. here we go: A Chinwawa (name of a race). Or to be more precise, a Chinwawa tat grew up in anothoer society call Malukuia (of which its son-of-the-soil are call the Maluku... think american chinese ok ?!) is currently going out with a Maluku girl. And a very nice Maluku girl i shall say. But somehow, this Chinwawa guy became the butt of joke among some of his Chinwawa friends who oso grew in tat Maluku society. WHY? because those Chinwawa believe they are more superior. Yet, these Chinwawas guys themselves always complain about Chinwawa girls looking down on them and prefer Eureka (yet another race...) men. Very farni dun ya think? (oso strangely familiar sounding dun ya think?)
Time and again, TaiwankTank has mentioned his fabulous grandmother in this blog. When TaiwanTank first came over to USA, his grandmother will ALWAYS tell TaiwanTank to love and respect EVERYONE he see. No matter the race. WHY? coz all men are equal despite their differences. ??? classic example of oxymoron ??? (besides seeing the words "smart", "intelligent" and "George W. Bush" in one single sentence. MUAHAH) but the Tank think once again, his grandmother is the wisest old lady in this planet. Sure, many obvious differences will exist among races and it will be impossible and (in my humble opinion) VERY BUSH-LIKE (i.e. stupid) to try to erase those differences. Yet, those differences should neva be the reasons for seperations n all tat rubbish. The TaiwanTank has many friends from many races. And i truly regard them as friends. From my Ri days, ppl like shariff, puva, prashan (i think i spell his name wrongly here.), helmi (of course) and alot more. Though i can't say i am very close to them, i really like their company and enjoy tokking to them and find them very very great ppl to know and mix arnd with. Neva for a second did i think i am superior to them or any of tat crap. I respect them. Their customs. Their way of behavior. In fact, i admire them a great deal simply of the fact of who they are. Like always, dunnoe wat exactly is so blardy zai abt them. They are just zai and i totally like them. Tat's all the reason i need. and yesh. Isn't it incredible for TaiwanTank's grandmother to say such kind of thing and have such kind of believe? get this, grandmother is from the age when she got her feet wrapped small ok!!! the most traditional woman in almost everyway. Yet she is so much more open minded than sooooo much more ppl. incredible yeah!?!?!
KK. Wat i just said also tie in with the second topic of the day. TaiwanTank has been kindly adviced by all the people tat loves him time and again to shut his blardy mouth up. Esp when got such situations like above which has a 99% chance of getting bombarded and tragic sideeffects on the Tank himself. Many ppl question wat good can possibly be achieved by these things tat the Tank does. And the Tank has to confess that not much usually come out of his outspoken and ultra direct and frank way of doing things. And the Tank always get into hot water coz of things like this. But why do the Tank keep doing such things? NO, the Tank does not enjoy stirring the honet's nest and getting stung all over. The Tank merely believe firmly tat he need to do what he should do, and not wat he can do. hmm... very weird sentence rite? ok. let the tank elaborate here. See, in a society there exist an invisible form of structure which governs wat kind of thing a person can do. If you are the minority, it is unwise to challenge to majority head on. If you are the junior, not wise to challenge those in higher authority or more senior to you directly. But of course if you are the majority and the senior grp of the side, then of course you can challenge the other party directly. So. This results in minority not daring to face against there oppressor even though they SHOULD and NEED to do so. And ppl not speaking up against wat is wrong coz they are not allowed and thus cannot, while they probably SHOULD and NEED to. SO. The Tank's way of doing thing is to make his feelings about things known the instant something happen. Yesh. The Tank has no problem letting his feelings be know. Though with age, the Tank learns to think more carefully before making simple actions like slapping a person or throwing his plate of food into some assholes face. however, the Tank is still the Tank, just like a dog cannot change his habit of eating shit. the Tank is NOT willing to put up with nonsense and will freaking let you know it if you are a crappy nonsense shit. SO. the Tank knows tat those Chinwawas tat are mentioned above occasionally read my blog and will identify themselves and other characters very quickly and oso all those related to tat story above oso read my blog and the consequence may be very catastrophic. However, the Tank cannot let such things go unnoticed. the Tank has tried to persuade those ignorant sad souls not to do wat they are doing in very gentle tones and only receive responses like "who the hell are you to tell me wat to do?!". Well, the Tank agree with the response but oso think it works both way. There is no stopping the Tank PITYING THE FOOL or laugh at those ball-less few tat join in the sick racist joke laughs and not do anything to correct it. Yes, this is the Tank's way of doing things. The Tank always believe in the possibilty of dropping dead the next second. And the Tank do not want to leave this world with the regret tat he could have done something or said something. The Tank does not mean tat he go about his work without any tact. The Tank is saying he will stop at NOTHING to do what he believe in, what he believe to be necessary and what he NEED and SHOULD do. Yes. This is the Tank's way of doing things. Hate it or Love it. This is the Tank. The TaiwanTank!!!
posted by David at 7/25/2003 02:35:00 AM