Sunday, June 21, 2009

"Tolerance binds us"

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I saw this article in the Star newspaper dated 19/6/09.

Datuk Peter Minos mentioned that the Muslim and Non-Muslim in Sarawak "often eat near each other". Here in Kuching for example, we can see a lot of Muslim stalls inside a Chinese food store. At Samarahan, Desa Ilmu area, Xiang2 next to Warong 2000, students with different races can share table eating happily. No problem at all. Even a friend of mind, Candy, a Chinese from KL was shock to see this kind of situation here in Kuching.

Refering to a blog post by Grace about the 3 races that are always mentioned back in peninsular, why can't they open up their mind and accept that they are living in a plural society with more than these 3 races. The contanstly dividing each other according to races in any kind of events is totally not good and how will that 1Malaysia can be achieved? I better drop this topic as I do not want anyone to be offended.

I totally agree with the last paragraph of this article.
"Sarawakian have long realised that they need each other in many aspect of life. By accepting and respecting each other, there is much to be gained," Datuk Peter Minos.

I love that I have close friends from different races and religion living together so happily. We can never understand other people's religion but what we can do is to respect their believes and do not try to understand as u can never will.

8 comments:

friendjac said...

yup, carol..i totally support u..i x understand why those from WM (majority) cannot accept the differece between each races. we r 1 malaysia ma...

Sarawak n sabah mungkin x semaju semenajung, tp kelebihan sarawak yg WM is, perpaduan atr kaum kat EM jauh tegur dr WM..

friendjac said...

tp kelebihan sarawak yg WM xde is, perpaduan atr kaum kat EM jauh teguh dr WM..

Pinkbubblegumprincess said...

yup btol3x

Caroline Benedicta Wilson said...

betul2...at least pabila smua ok semasa sendiri, tdk bergaduh sesama kaum, we can slowly maju kan diri. maju kan negara ssh lah if kita bertiga jak, so the best still, we do our best in keeping the peace that we have either in EM o WM.

John Harding said...

wah.. ramai dah peminat blog kau tok.....nasihat aku, integrasi, integrasi juak...iboh pulak ramai pompuan Dayak (especially nak alang alang, sik cukup ilmu study kat college2 local) terover integrasi sampai tergila gila mengagungkan bangsa omputeh and negro dan org2 timur tengah ya.. dapat nangga kat club club bah hehehe..merendahkan martabat dirik..meluat nangga (panas juak komen tok..sorry sis)

Caroline Benedicta Wilson said...

peminat blog x ramai, kwn dikpun jk..hahaha..

anyway, i agree wit u. Bkn kt mok nganok, but smtm, the dayung2 so kupuo face with culture shock. Tiba2 tga dunia luar, alu rs hebat mun pat g club, mix with dak omputeh, Negro and apa2 jak lah org luar negara tok.

It happen a lot where young girls, especially yg br hbs f5 come out kreja, baru x lmk, blt kpg bawa perut besar, u noe wat i mean. Ku xmok nganok org jua cos takut aku yg bawa perut besar juak klk.

So yeah, smtm rs meluat see these group of ladies yg rs hebat with wat they are doing rite now.

John Harding said...

aih.. kau lagi over.. aku ingat aku terpaling over tek hahahah

lalu terkeluar topic kita dua

Caroline Benedicta Wilson said...

hahaha...xmok nganok2 a...jgn ada yg terasa d luar. bcs it's something that i realise especially girls from my kpg. Usually those yang 'ti-ik' mmg kwen awal. ADuh...here i am nganok org gik. Udah eh. Hahaha..