boleh tahu nggak mana difinisi yang benar tentang racist :
menurut saya :
Racist adalah klan atau kelompok suku bangsa tertentu yang menganggap
lebih tinggi kedudukannya dan menganggap klan lainnya lebih rendah.
Kalau kasusnya orang/klan yang menuntut keadilan terhadap klan/kelompok
lain yang selama ini merasa lebih tinggi dan mengganggap klan yang lain
lebih rendah, bahkan dalam banyak kasus mereka cenderung merugikan
klan/kelompok yang lain, apakah ini juga disebut racist?
>
>Bacaan bagus, mungkin bisa kita pahami sedikit kehidupan menjadi
seorang
>keturunan, bukan dari kacamata ala Adi "Racis" Sasono, ala empunya toko
di
>Glodok, Senen, Kelapa Gading, dan Pasar Mesteer, bukan dari keglamoran
>keturunan macam Liem Sioe Liong di Gunung Sahari,
>Mari kita coba rasakan dan pahami, gimana sih jadi Cina itu sebenarnya,
>jangan muluk-muluk, tinggal di Pondok Indah, pemilik perusahaan
>konglomelorot plus kkn dengan anak-cucu Soeharto, sekolah di pelita
>atau di Amerika sini,
>tapi cukup hanya dengan berdagang seadanya, tinggal membaur dengan
>sesama pribumi, menyekolahkan anak-anak di sekolah negeri, kendaraan
>transportasi hanyak mikrolet dan ojek.
>Kasihan mereka, yang cina kaya sih gampang, lari keluar negeri, amerika
>juga mau terima, asal dollar nya mencukupi bayar pajak. lha
>yang cina miskin kebanyakan, malah di palakin, rumah dibakarin,
>anak perawannya di perkosaiin, keluar diteriakin atau diancam.
>coba bayangin sedetik deh...gimana sih jadi cina itu, atau gimana sih
>jadi minoritas itu, sama seperti gimana jadi Arab Muslim di Amerika
>yang katanya mayoritas Kristen itu.
>
>Hanya sebuat renungan menjelang natal.
>
>
>Andrew Pattiwael
>The Military College of Vermont
>Norwich University Corps of Cadets
>
>
>Harassment of Spouse, Children Chills Jakarta Mixed Marriage
>
>By Keith B. Richburg
>Washington Post Foreign Service
>Wednesday, December 23, 1998; Page A19
>
>JAKARTA, Indonesia-Yunita L. Riana doesn't consider herself a
>revolutionary. But 11 years ago, she committed what for many in
>Indonesia's indigenous population might be considered an act of
>revolutionary proportions: She fell in love with, and married, an
>ethnic Chinese man.
>
>She was 17 when she became involved with Paul Tenggana, who is 10
>years her elder. Her relatives were aghast. His wealthy family was not
>much better. They opposed the marriage, and still, she said, "I do not
>get along with his family."
>
>But what has been worse for her has been the insults, the threats, and
>the constant harassment she faces living as part of a mixed couple in
>ethnically divided Indonesia. Every day, she said, she fears for the
>safety of her two young sons.
>
>She described how even driving down the street in the family car can
>be a traumatic experience. "Every time we go anywhere, and my husband
>makes a little mistake driving, people say, 'Chinese! Stupid Chinese!
>I'll burn down your house.' "
>
>"I get so depressed," she said. "Every time the same thing. 'I will
>burn down your house!' 'I will burn your car!' 'I will kidnap your
>children!' " She stopped briefly, tears welling in her eyes, her voice
>softly breaking as she tried to continue.
>
>"I'm very upset," she said at last. "It's always been that way. But
>now, since May, it's become more frequent. If I have a problem with
>one of the housekeepers and I have to scold them, I think twice -- I
>don't want them to do anything stupid because this is a Chinese house.
>They might burn the house or kidnap the children, because it's a
>Chinese house."
>
>Her story gets worse. Lately, since the riots of May, people have been
>showing up at her front door every week, demanding money. And of
>course she gives the money, because she is afraid. "I've become like
>Santa Claus," she said.
>
>Not even the children are immune; young neighborhood toughs have
>showed up at the gates of her eldest son's Catholic junior high
>school, deriding the Chinese children for being rich in poor
>Indonesia, and demanding cash.
>
>She said it was love that drove her to marry Paul, when she was just
>21. But now at 32, what love there was has been worn down by the
>constant struggle. "If I had a second chance," she conceded, "I
>wouldn't marry a Chinese. No way. It's too much trouble. Right now, I
>think love is stupid. I'm worried about my sons' safety."
>
>"I do have regrets," she said, gently weeping. "I cannot talk to
>anyone -- not my husband, not my sons, because I don't want them to
>feel bad about being Chinese. I keep it in my heart."
>
>She has applied for a job in Ireland, in the tourism industry. But she
>knows her husband will not go, because even with the harassment and
>threats, he feels he belongs here.
>
>"He says, 'I was born here, my parents were born here. I don't even
>know where China is. I have an Indonesian passport,' " she said. But
>of her husband's patriotism, "It's crazy," she said, "stupid."
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