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[ayachii-pandragon]

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Malaysia is riven by a stark racial heiracries

You will never witness an existence as wretched as the migrant South Asian workers in South-East Asia—building infrascrutre in fatal heat with no human rights—the sweat from this labour another reason to denegrate—openly treated like vermin every waking hour by the same pamapered and clueless inhabitants that will benefit from their toil.

They don’t have human rights because they are not seen as fully human.

Malaysian Indians seperate themselves from them at every opportunity. I've heard someone say, 'You can call me Keling if you want but I'm a Christian'. They are each so unwanted, but they refuse to find belonging with each other.

• No other race has self-esteem as low as ours. • No other race is is so divided as us.

[thekelingspeaks]

“I’m A Skeptic”

“There I said it,

But I like to believe,

That somebody could be authentic,”

Got a song on repeat. Courtesy of FIFA 2019 and my brother’s incessant game-playing frenzies.

Got a cat on my lap. She says wjhreiroewfnaoidsnfiwnef.

I did say I’d explain what Keling meant. So here goes...

If you were to perform a simple google search on the word ‘Keling’, you’d find the following...

Not far behind are articles on the origin of the word Keling (by word of WorldofBuzz) and even a ‘healthy’ mention of its many uses in Malaysian politics albeit our prime minister who suddenly saw fit to expand his trilingual repertoire at a fundraising event.

The word ‘Keling’ is thought to have originated from ancient India in which the kingdom of Kalinga existed. - which is very much likened to a modern day Orissa. People from said kingdom were thought to be referred to by tradespeople as Kalings.

Other thoughts on the origin refer to the sound anklets make on when one walks with them , these accessories being avidly worn by your average brown Indian person.

However, as with all things in humanity, human beings have a lovely knack for adding...depth and connotation to a word, phrase and as It turns out, this word was no different and not spared.

Today, the word Keling is very much used as a derogatory term in Malaysia when referring to a person of south indian descent. It is, equivocally, our N-word though it did not originate with such negative vibes.

Every South Indian person in Malaysia will no doubt have encountered this once in their life time, being at school, work or amidst the seemingly jocular jeers of their multicultural peers.

I believe in us, the brown people of South Indian descent totally owning this word. It’s 2020, peeps. In a culture wrought with the themes of inclusivity, diversity and the likes, it’s time we owned this. The power only lies in a word when one lets it define them. If we give people the power of negativity that this word used to create in our society, it achieves the aims of the despicable people who use it. If we retaliate with hostility, we feed the negativity. Owning it with pride even when used as an insult will very quickly deflate the mentality such narrow-minded individuals possess and take the power away from them.

I for one am proud to be a Keling. I think back to when it was first uttered to me, a seven year old, playing with her peers of all cultures and the second time it was used to jeer at me, when I was 15 and had it said to me by an adult. The hurt of being viewed as a second class citizen was disgusting. The mere fact that one race could think another inferior by mere show of skin colour and difference in geographic origin....Well I guess it only spoke volumes to their intelligence instead.

Racial equality is still very much a taboo subject in Malaysia despite its rampant use of it and the dawn of the Information Age where access to information is easy and thus the means of educating yourself makes it harder for people to remain ignorant of inequalities that still exist within our constitution today. Today’s data-rich age makes it hard for ethnically-charged governments to continue to feed the rhetoric of false teachings into our society. To be able to healthily compete on an international platform, no one race can be given ‘special rights’ or privileges to aid a game of ‘catch-up’. It is our responsibility as human beings with human rights to claim equality in the country we are citizens of and help those that lack the education to develop themselves further to appreciate this fact.

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No one race is inferior to the other. We are simply, a human race which is sadly a lesson we may only learn when facing an alien invasion at some point in our mutually converging futures on this third rock from the sun.

And that is why...this Keling speaks.

Tune in next week as she plans to...take over the world!!!

*insert raucous, villainous maniacal laughter here*

[ibrester]

Добрый вечер! Ночная доставка красоты с острова #nusapenida в действии. Да, до пляжа #kelingkingbeach можно спуститься, только нужно преодолеть стометровую бамбуковую лестницу, идущую почти вертикально вниз. А внизу вас ждут нашлые.обезьяны, так что нужно следить за вещами. Но эти волны были просто великолепны! #indonesianwanderer #indonesia #keling #kelingkingbeachnusapenida #beach #wallpaper #travel #viewpoint #kelingkingbeachsecretpoint (at Kelingking Beach Nusa Penida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BujkxYuAulK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kvimtsrvbeb6

[rainfirex]

Silently judging everybody since 1989. #akkatime #sareenotsaree #isittoolatenowtowearsaree #social #influencer #honor10 #shotinhonor10#huji #engagement #indiantings #wewerelost #butohwell #saree #keling #sparkeling

[patinews]

Satu Korban Meninggal Dunia, Akibat Kecelakaan Dua Motor di Cluwak

Satu Korban Meninggal Dunia, Akibat Kecelakaan Dua Motor di Cluwak

PatiNews.Com – Cluwak, Satu orang dikabarkan meninggal dunia, akibat kecelakaan di Jalan Raya Tayu – Jepara turut tanah Desa Plaosan Kecamatan Cluwak Kabupaten Pati. Jum’at, 13 April 2018.

Dari informasi yang dihimpun, kecelakaaan melibatkan dua sepeda motor, yakni Honda Spacy kontra dengan Yamaha Vega. Korban meninggal adalah Sulastri, penumpang Honda Spacy warga Ds. Kelet Rt. 022 Rw. 003 Kec.…

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