I DON'T EAT PORK FYI.

Hurm, Pork? Why pork you wonder?

Okay, As you all might know now that I live in Malaysia. Malaysia being as what it is consist of many races and this is our best point. Being able to tolerate each other for more than 50 years now is considered a miracle because even as you can see in movies, even the United States which is mainly controlled by the white people discriminated other races greatly(creating the Ku Kux Clan).

The respect we have among each other in this country is great! Personally, i have even more friends who are non-bumiputra and i like them very well. Everyday i find myself very happy being among them as Malaysians and not thinking of our respective race.

But sometimes our respect gets to a very funny level but i guess they're just being appropriately respecting us Malays. For Malays we can't eat pork meat because our religion(Islam) forbids it.

So what my Chinese friends would normally do is, every single time they put up a picture of a pork meat they would put down there "sorry" or something like it. I find it funny because they think it would be offensive to do such a small thing.

Okay fine so it can be offensive if you give pork meat in a situation where most guest are Muslims and offer it to them but to offer it when there is a Chinese wedding? I personally think it's their rights to do so. Just remember to put up the sign showing it's pork meat.

And then there's this friend of mine who puts up a picture of pork meat and apologise. Haha, where can you get these kind of wonderful friends huh? But he didn't need to apologise because it's just a picture!

Most of them think i would get angry every single time they mention pork. Sometimes my friends would ask me

"hey sorry ah. You wouldn't mind right? "
" Haha! It's okaylah! It's just pork meat. Don't worry" :)

See see! Such nice people! They would ask questions like that worrying that i would feel offended! I think it's normal for pork to be eaten among them and we shouldn't get offensive for such small matters. It's not as if they're offering us some in which it would matter cause it's very offensive to do so.

I would just like to say that it's okay for you all to enjoy it and put up pictures of pork meat! There's no need to apologies unless its necessary but then again being the good Malaysians that we are, we always do! And that's good actually. Imagine if we were to do it that way, everyone would apologise even if we're eating beef because Indians can't eat beef! And it isn't fair if we can say sorry to Malays but not to Indians so we only need to be careful so that there won't need for us to apologise.

So yeah just wanted to make a small point :). Malaysia is cool and more is it's diverse range of races!