Culture & Mentality

Culture

A friend from Hong Kong came few days ago and yesterday I "sort of" brought her around. I wondered is that call "bringing around" because she had almost traveled all the tourist spots before yesterday, and most importantly, there aren't many distintive differences between Singapore and Hong Kong except culture. Hong Kong chinese, Singaporean chinese, Malaysian chinese, all with different cultures. Inside the same cultural group nobody share the exact identical personality. Environment, education, experience all play a part in shaping one's personality. If we can accept people are different, we can accept cultures are different. Things are meant to be unique to render the world colourful and harmoneous but not mono. But how often can a human, obsessed predominantly by his/her own way of thinking, be disposed to admire strength not found in ourselves but exposed in differences?

Mentality

I wonder should I blame it to the "culture" among ourselves. It's not "kia-su" mentality but rather form of teasing among friends, perhaps in companion with slight envy. And in the past I "should-be" among the major criminal that found guilty of teasing friends for hardworking. It's just too natural for me to tease a friend: Wah, so hardworking ar? Wah, so fast do tutorial ar? when I saw them studying. Sincerely I didn't mean to discourage them to study, it's just too natural as this kind of behaviour is circulating among ourselves. If people tease me like this I probably would reply with smile or another teasing, and continue to study. But only after recent strong protest from two strongmen I finally realized not everyone behaves like me and they really care about what others say and would feel embarass to continue study.

Aiyo, then I die lor...for becoming a culprit of discouraging others to study. Damn damn. Didn't mean for that but anyway... It's true even it doesn't not mean for discouraging, it's still far from encouraging to study. So, I have to change my behaviour from this moment on. Next time you won't see tease you on hardworking (on other things perhaps), but you will hear :"Oh begitu rajin bagus! Belajar pandai pandai la~" Does that sound more supportive? Haha~