Chinese vs Malayan

I played quite much in the online game which is based in Malaysia lately, xdo.
The gameplay is mostly just the same as the other dance games I've played.
However, it's the community who plays the game thats interesting.
The players are mostly malaysian *duh!*,
although I often meet some immigrants from the US version of the game too like me ;P

These malaysian ppl, it's so interesting that in one sentence they can use english, chinese, and malay words all at once xD
I enjoy so much reading their forums lol.

But aside from that quirk of the language, what I want to discuss here is how they are so sensitive toward races issues.
Not just once that I'm being asked in game, "what ppl are you?"
to which of course i could only respond, "huh?"
turned out they were asking whether I am a chinese or a malayan >.>
or in another case, they asked "what race are u?"
I was kinda flabbergasted getting such a question at the first time.
Isn't that a very racist question????
I'm used to play in the US version, where I think it's a commonsense that racial issues must not come into discussion.

Since I had to respond, as an indonesian of course I answered, I'm indonesian.
To which they still insisted on asking, "yeah, but are you chinese?"
ermm...hello?

I never really remember there's any such identification of races in Indonesia.
I mean, well, indeed we have cultures, javanese, sundanese, batak-ese(?),etc, but it's not that we will ask for such a culture identification at the first time we meet someone.

Well, apparently in Malaysia, such identification matters.
What scary is, they often had arguments abt it. Chinese ppl vs Malayan ppl.
I dont know how it often started, but then it always come to associating each other with animals, mainly pig >.>

prolly because pig is considered as the worst animal evah? (aww, poor piggies >_<)
prolly because Malayan is identical with moslem ppl who dont eat pork and Chinese ppl have quite a culinary tradition using pork?
They usually mention abt that eating habit in the argument, with the chinese ppl promoting "bak kut teh" (whatever it is, I suppose its an extremely delicious chinese dish using pork?) and that everyone should eat it.

However, its scary scary scary....

Witnessing such rude arguments happening more than one occasion,
I grow my respect to the founding fathers of Indonesia.
They all were emphasizing on the unity of Indonesia.
They were not using certain religion as the base, even though its the majority religion.
They decided the use of Bahasa Indonesia, as the language of the country which unites everyone from every regionals despite each having their own regional traditional language.
I'm so proud abt this language thing also when I'm with my Indian friends.
Because they have various regional languages just like us. However, they don't have that one language which formally unites them. As a result u can get Indians talking to each other using English since they came from different regions in India.

I still have some more thoughts, but at least for now I will conclude this post with, I'm proud to be an Indonesian.

A-Ce-I, Aku Cinta Indonesia~ xD