小天地

When I was on the train, on my way home, I looked at each individual there, every face tells a human story that creates us. Chinese, middle eastern, caucasian, Indian, polynesian, African, all of them bound to clash to each other in a packed train carriage. Remind me of a movie called "Crash" about racial tension in Los Angeles. Lucky, so far we haven't had any racial motivated riot or violence in Melbourne yet. Not so long ago, distance was a major hurdles for understanding and economy. These days, everything seem to be everywhere, from humans to goods.

The train I rode today was made in Germany by company called Siemens, an Indian sat in front of me, I listened to a Japanese design Sony walkman made in China, listening to Korean songs, while two guys sitting across my seat chatted in Greek. Somehow, I feel so lucky to be able to live and accept different cultures and exposures around me. Back at home, the racial and religious tension is always running high. There are less race and religion in Indonesia and they are yet to live harmoniously. The chinese, only 3%, often look down at the locals because there is a perception where they are lazy to work and can only ask. The locals hate the chinese, as they are controlling most of the economy. The muslim extremist wanted to make the country into a muslim country by killing and terrorised the christians (Indonesia is not an Islam country with Islam law, despite the majority of its population are muslim).

Acceptance of other cultures and new things are also terribly slow in Indonesia, girls wearing tight mini skirt in shopping malls can create havoc among the some. Don't even think of mentioning gay in the society, it's unheard of (It's not accepted, but general population doesn't even know what gay is!!!). The world is getting smaller, but some parts of our living space is isolating itself.

On the other note, in the train 2 Chinese guys kept looking back at me. Initially, I thought there was something wrong with me, but then one of them was smirking. Creeeeepppyyy..... Yuck...