bad

the other day, i head a little girl whisper to her mum in the lift i was in.

"mummy, why you say cannot talk to indian man?"
"quiet! you want him to hear you is it?"

unfortunately for her, i did hear it. but what made me really sad was the fact that the mother was in fact very young. you would have thought that such people would be a lot more mature and thinking individuals carefully weighing the situation before they teach their kids things like that. hey, i got no say in how you want to raise your kids. but is it really necessary to pass on your own innate dispositions of other people and create a younger generation that is equally insensitive? this is by no means an exceptional case because i have seen/heard/experienced things like this before. but the overall effect of hearing such things is one of sadness and deep thought. pity i had to hear this before my sense of hearing got blocked up. at least i wouldn't be this erm, troubled. i suppose that is the trouble with a multi racial country.