To the world, the ethnic chinese, indian and malay in Malaysia are called Malaysian and speak one common language - Manglish. To my surprise, there are still Malaysian (chinese xD) who can't differentiate between a Malay and an Indian.
During the Ramandan month, a guy walk passed me and talk to an Indian who held a drink in her hand and asked: "Hei, you tak puasa kah?" "No... noo... nooo..." she replied with exaggeration on the word "no" and with diminishing tone, speechless. They are university students I have to stressed that.
Today, out of sudden our lecturer just asked: "Where is the only Indian guy in our class? Oh, there he is!" he pointed to the only Malay guy who was sitting in front of me. I saw him buried his face to the table, he must be laughing his ass off :D
Though we are Malaysian, some of us are like foreigners to each other. Just like the German cannot differentiate between a chinese and a japanese. When I first arrived in Germany, there were people sawing me and greeted me: "Konnichiwa". After 2 years in Germany, I can differentiate among Russian, German, English and American. What puzzled me, is that some Malaysian, who live for about 2 to 3 decades in Malaysia, cannot differentiate an Indian and a Malay...
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