Racial Violence and Equality

Racial Violence and Equality In Indonesia, the Chinese race was discriminated against and persecuted in the 1960s. Our Indonesian Chinese geology teacher came to Taiwan from Indonesia to tell us this about this racial commotion and persecution. In Indonesia in 1998, there were Chinatown massacres and rapes and business owners being robbed. Neither the Taiwan government nor China sent transportation to airlift the overseas Chinese out of the Indonesian mayhem. In the recent Tsunami crisis, Chinese communities were looted by poor Indonesian natives. In the U.S., racial tensions are always there just beneath the surface. In the Hurricane Katrina crisis, racial tensions again surfaced in the U.S. The people in the Philippines are a mixture of Chinese ancestry, natives, Africans, and Spanish colonists. Filipinos are the servants and wet nurses for busy Hong Kong and Taiwan high income families. There are many social problems as some tragedy were that women turned their frustration to abuse the babies, and some have affairs and force the wife to jump out of a building. The laborers also get exploited by the workers’ middleman agency. Muslims in China I was saddened by the scene of bare animals being sold in the Islamic quarter of the inner China, my father’s hometown. They are Chinese subjects, but their existence is starkly poor. I want to do something, to help the Chinese minority to be on a human level to have their own characteristics expressed to the best. Never so desperate to become suicide bombers. They are confined in limbo. Minorities always strive to gain recognition in the Chinese culture, though their ancestry might not always be so kind and they may have committed atrocities. China’s most poetic Li Bai, supposed to be from Kyrgyzstan, his language was so fluid and graceful. The power of Han and disgrace of Han all requires Chinese to reflect introspectively rather than demand America to understand at this historical juncture. Ethnocentrism vs. Ethnic Relativity The theory upheld by anthropologist Margaret Mead is that every culture has its relative reason for being, though most people tend to think that their own culture is the best. Social injustices both in China and the U.S. serve to tell the Supreme Court that the Civil Rights movement is unfinished. There is a need for social reform, both abroad and in the U.S.