Wednesday, February 16, 2011
God created us with many differences. We have different skin colours, hair colours, eye colours, habits, languages, religions. But God never differ us. We are now in the same world, but why do we differ ourselves each other ?
Look at some multi ethnic country like Indonesia and America. By the latest citizen statistic data, Indonesia has 237.556.363 people. They are divided to be a lot of races and ethnic. There are Javanese, Sumatran, Sundanese, Sulawesi people, Papua people, even Chinese. In America too. A lot of races and ethnics should make the country being colorful.
But what we face today ? Discrimination is still becoming a big problem in the multi ethnic country. In Indonesia, Not all of Indonesian can receive Chinese, who are minority, to live in around them. Maybe it's Chinese - Indonesia people or Originally Chinese. So, sometimes many people make a difficulty to them if they want to make any important documents, buying or selling a properties, etc. So do in America, we know that 'non-white' people, let's say " Negroid " or Afro-American, is always getting a discrimination. Although the current President of America is Afro-American, but still the discrimination can't lost yet.
Like what Chris Gardner, which is rolled by Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness, did. He is including of ' non-white ' people. He works as a ' bone density scanner ' seller. It's an expensive stuff and not all of the hospital need it now. In that difficult condition, Chris' wife, Linda, leave him and his son to search a better job in New York. Then Chris lost everything, start from house, car, everything. He and his son live nomadic and have a scramble work. Even Chris and his son live in the bathroom of a train station ! One day, Chris is called to an office and the boss said that he become an excellent trainee and he will work permanently there soon. It's like everything paid with Chris' happiness. Difficulties, sadness, sufferance are already done for them.
A discrimination to a ' non-white ' one seems so clear in this film. When Gardner sells his 'bone density scanner', he gets many difficulty. It's not just because the price of the stuff is expensive, but the seller is Afro-American, means MINORITY. Everybody makes Gardner difficult to search any job. Nobody wants to accept him, because he's Afro-American. Again, They are MINORITY.
So what happen with minority in our life ? Hey, We are all same. God created us differently for making this world colorful. God is fair when giving us sustenance based on what we have done in this life. So, what's the function of discrimination ? It just make us suffered and broken. Nelson Mandela had fighted for a discrimination by breaking apartheid politic in Africa. Mandela wants that Africans, who are 'non-white', and British, who are ' white people ' are living peace and no war.
Actually, living in multi-ethnic country is a luck. Why ? because we live in a 'reach' country. We have a lot of cultures, races, ethnics, etc. Not all of countries in this world have a huge number of cultures like multi-ethnic country. Exactly living in multi-ethnic is a pride. We can learn and share with the other people who are different with us. No need to be regret. If we can keep our relationship each other, we will live happily, No one fighting and NO DISCRIMINATION. Whether we are including to minority or not, but we are one and we are proud to live in Multi-Ethnic Country with all of the differences.
