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Go Back to the Basics (Published on Medium & Winning Writers Newsletter in June) #StopAsianHate

May 13, 2021 I am a Malaysian. When we were growing up, integration between the different races was an integral part of our lessons taught in schools, and the environment we lived in was one of mixed racial composition. However, I know what it means to be dominated by races proclaiming superiority and rights over others. Because that is what it is. When there is a racial divide, it is often one race pitting over another. For the most part, it is due to an innate misconstrued dislike for color, race, or religious beliefs. Where do these feelings take root from? Pe o ple immersed with discriminative thoughts are in many ways persecuted themselves by those very kinds of reasoning. They cannot suppress their dislike and resort to hazardous measures and remain the injurious party both in mind and action. They drown themselves in a complex far worse than the discriminated. They drown themselves in what is known as the “insufferable complex.” I have always wondered why the race of a person is