I am happy you feel comfortable in offering Ms. Moon a look at your neighbourhood to see how things ought to be done. Such areas exist, too, in the US and Canada. Knowing the larger picture in these two countries, though, I would be hesitant to put them forward as models -- it would be all too easy to interpret as a kind of complacency in the face of larger injustice.
Alas, I recollect all too clearly the events of 1969 in Malaysia, and, in a less violent but still unjust contemporary situation, the discrimination against ethnic Chinese and Indian Malaysian citizens in access to higher education within their own country. I'm happy the first situation is just history now (and hope it will remain so), but even on a day of celebration I hope folks will be mindful of the second one, which as far as I know has not yet been resolved.
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Date: 2010-09-17 11:53 am (UTC)Alas, I recollect all too clearly the events of 1969 in Malaysia, and, in a less violent but still unjust contemporary situation, the discrimination against ethnic Chinese and Indian Malaysian citizens in access to higher education within their own country. I'm happy the first situation is just history now (and hope it will remain so), but even on a day of celebration I hope folks will be mindful of the second one, which as far as I know has not yet been resolved.