Netizen @pavitrapillai broke Twitter when she called out rampant white worshipping by Malaysians, and garnered more than 4k retweets and 3.8k likes.
By white worshipping, she means putting white people on a pedestal and wanting to please them (just like how our people were forced to do so during colonial Malaya to survive).
She is specifically angry about how some members of the public give preferential treatment to white people and then treat fellow Malaysians like shit crap.
Honestly Malaysians need to stop being extra nice to white people. The makciks and cashiers at malls are so nice to white people but are so rude to Malaysians who are right beside them. It’s honestly embarrassing and I promise you, you’re not getting this in their country.
— pavitra pillai (@pavitrapillai) May 30, 2019
She writes, “Honestly, Malaysians need to stop being extra nice to white people.”
“The makciks and cashiers at malls are so nice to white people but are so rude to Malaysians who are right beside them.”
“It’s honestly embarrassing, and I promise you, you’re not getting this [kind of treatment] in their country.”
Malaysians began to step up to the plate and shared similar views on how kindness is served based on the colour of one’s skin.
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“When [white people] just know ‘apa khabar’ and ‘terima kasih’, the whole nation goes:
Another commented on how this was not just a Malaysian problem, but an Asian problem.
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One netizen, however, disagreed, stating that the treatment he received while abroad was exemplary.
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@pavitrapillai responded that the customer service overseas is excellent, but they usually do not treat foreigners any better than they treat the locals.
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“In Malaysia, however, white foreigners are often treated better than the locals themselves.”
“That is the narrative of my tweet.”
The purpose of the tweet is not so much to drive the angmohs out of Malaysia, but rather to urge Malaysians to be kind to EVERYBODY.
Know any Malaysians who are white worshippers and need to wake the hell up?
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