Glutter Socio-Political Rants,
Glutter’s Hong Kong
The other day I watch a big tall six feet white expat man I know yell at a 4 feet something beggar woman to “Hang Huo,” (Walk off). I was pissed. When he turned around to me with a smug look, I told him that there was no reason what-so-ever to ever scream at someone like that, and it was unnecessary. He tried to explain it away by saying, “That these people annoy me.” And I said, “Does that mean if I annoyed you, you would yell at me the same way?” He was about to say, “You are different” no doubt, which is what makes the whole thing even more infuriating.
We are not a colony anymore. They never should have been here and every time I see expats behave that way, in that arrogant white way to poor Chinese people I am reminded why I understand the reasoning Palestinians send their young sons to Israel with explosives strapped around their bodies and sacrifice them to make a point. They don’t have the right to lord over the less powerful.
I spent the next two hours having people involved try and make themselves out to be “good people” they are, coming up to me over and over again saying, “I am not a bad guy.” Even after I made it quite clear it was time to drop it, move on, and get on with life.
Another symptom of arrogance -cannot have anyone view even one action of theirs to be flawed. I didn’t like what he did, I made my point and there was no reason for it to be a huge issue.
Those who cannot accept we are all fallible, learn from mistakes, take into account that we all have behaviors and views that needs to be modified, changed, and thought about, is the very reason that people thinks they can yell at someone who doesn’t speak “their language” in a foreign place, or just because someone has no recourse to hurt you back to begin with.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 