At lunch table today, while watching Tokyo Drift, we were talking about something and the conversation started on some matter concerning with the characters like this:

Friend: They are Chinese!

Me: Well, I don’t know about real life but in the movie, they are supposed to be Japanese people.

Friend: How does it matter? Chinese, Japanese are all same. They all look alike.

Me: Oh really? For a foreigner, an Indian, a Pakistani and a person from Afghanistan, all might be same. Is that okay with you?

Friend: How come? We’re Hindus and they’re Muslims. Totally different!

Me:…………

That’s the kind of world we live in. And this is one of the numerous examples which we hear in day to day life, from unexpected people. We say the mindset needs to be changed. How? When the young generation as us still thinks like this. We can’t bear being compared to others but we’re perfectly fine in labeling other people or segregating them as we wish. That’s how the things work.

These type of conversations ultimately lead to Oh-Why-Do-You-Become-So-Serious-When-It-Comes-To-East-Asians ending. No, if I am defending them, doesn’t mean I won’t do it when it comes to us. Either you say everybody is the same or you don’t. What’s with “Oh, they all are the same just because they look alike” attitude with people? I seriously can’t understand.

I wish I could make people, at least around me, realize that we all are just human beings, a mere entity in this whole vast universe, nothing more than that (Not that I, myself understand that in the real real sense, but you get the idea, right?).

I wish……….