From the eyes of beholder

Dealing with Stereotype, Prejudice, and Discrimination are not easy. Having our own perceptions on certain things may lead to these; either negative or positive. And every so often our assumptions are driven by minds and we tend to believe what is there to believe without actually having a deep thought about it. And this is related to culture as well because we live in a world where all the cultures co-exist next to each other. 

           

According to Jade, for someone like her who lives in Xing Jiang province, China, discrimination is her greatest fear. As in the previous post, Jade experienced the so-called terrorist attacked by the minority group in her province regarding the mines issue. The unkind treatment that her people got from the Weiwuer make their life difficult, and some of the schools were closed because of the attack and even the number of tourists coming to Xing Jiang decreased prior to this. 

On the other hand, Jade viewed Malaysian as high-quality people. This is due to the sections that we have in the train, for example; a place or seats for the disabled people, pregnant women, women with child, elderly and normal people. Also, when she first came to Malaysia, the airport workers were so kind and helpful thus they made her travel easy and pleasant.

However, there are certain things that concern her about Malaysian such as punctuality. She noticed that punctuality is less practice here, in Malaysia. Given the example that the class which was supposed to start at 10am, but the lecture came at 11am. She couldn't help but to have this kind of stereotype towards Malaysian.

Nonetheless, Jade said that, in order for her to deal or overcome these, she needs to understand our culture first,and try to fit herself in.