If you are from Malaysia, some of you are definitely following the gripping drama that is the murder of a prominent business woman in Banting. What makes this news more gripping is not only was she burned and the ashes scattered in a river, our forensics discovered the DNA of another 20 individuals making that particular field and river a mini-killing field.
I have 2 questions.
One, what the heck does gripping news mean??? How does a new "grip" you and why is that a metaphor for interesting news? Second, we have a forensics dept??? Shows you how powerful TV can be, now with CSI showing hunky man and low-cut dress wearing forensics hotties. Sign me up!!!
So anyway, the murder suspects were caught and they promptly sang like a canary which led to more arrests and the police searching for more people involved. Unfortunately in this case, the suspects happen to be Indian. Now that really ticks me off!
Already the stereotype about Indians burning our wives or at least prone to domestic violence. And here we go doing what the stereotype describes us. So can we blame society for that? There are many Indians who are trying to dispel that but we do get some roti canai brainiacs.
Anyway, with this now in the forefront of our news. of course our Indian community leaders should be taking leadership in helping to solve the crime and ensure that it's not a crime related to any race. We look forward to our fearless leaders advising us on how we should protect the harmony of our society and we got it....sort of.
If you read yesterday's and today's paper, the problem of all this lies in the violence that they find in Indian movies. Bollywood, being violent, is the catalyst of our race being violent. That also means that our race are mindless zombies when we watch violent movies since we only focus on the violence and not on the moral or the ending where the good guys ALWAYS wins and crime doesn't pay. It is also ignorant to say that seeing the TV also has comedy and cookshows but you don't see us suddenly being a race of clowns and cooking mutton varuvel by the pot loads!!!
It's also an insult to us parents seeing that we are less influential than TV. From their hypothesis, these kids spend time watching a few movies and turn into brutal homicidal maniacs. The examples that parents set for us must be just as poor as mindless TV is parents are so easily replaced. So the problem must be bad parenting right?
Well, if you asked a rational, pragmatic, logical and devilishly handsome while aerodynamic in shape Chindian, he will tell you that it's a bit of both. Kids at a certain age are very impressionable. OF course if you leave them be, they may just turn out to whatever it is that was influencing them and 90% of the stimulus comes from home, meaning the family. And parents are the biggest influence. How we treat each other, how we respect and love each other, how do we respond to certain situations, etc. Unless we are screwed up and absolutely loose morals, your kids will turn out fine.
As parents, as least we give them a solid foundation. If we don't even give them that, then the battle is half lost. If we do, the future is good. Now what happens when the kids grow up is up to them. They now have some measure of a brain and can fully differentiate between right and wrong. Putting the blame on TV is ignorant, out dated and simply living in a state of denial. We debated about this and the debate is over. TV is here to stay regardless. How is it that we show successful sport persons living a lavish life but no one seems to be following their example? But shoot a couple of guns and suddenly we are psychos!
This is just me ranting but I am both disappointed and peeved by the way the media stereotypes us, Indians living up to the stereotype and our leaders making absolutely degenerate statements in public. There ought to be a law against that.
For idiotic politicians who make stupid statements like calling other races immigrants when they themselves are such, telling other races they should go back to China if they don't want to fast, saying that they can't take action against such blatant offenders even though he is the Education Minister or saying things like certain races will lose power just because BN loses in the election, the punishment is to burn them in a little field in Banting and scatter their ashes over the river.
How's that? Not just a pretty face!
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