"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
We are still dreaming.
Perhaps the context is different, but the sentiment is universal.
Some days have passed, but I am still upset over what happened.
Perhaps what is most disturbing about this whole unfortunate exchange of words, is that the first time I experienced racism in my own country, the only place I have called home for all the years of my life, it was from a foreigner.
I think it was the first time I really felt like a minority here in seventeen years.
It saddens me greatly that the most intelligent among us display such small-mindedness.
But in retrospect, how intelligent can someone be if he forms opinions of another based on something as arbitrary as the latter's physical being.
So now I ask you, can you really blame Singaporeans for being such xenophobes?
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