Othering

Have you witnessed unequal treatment of people around you? Who is being treated differently? Why do you think people treat this person or this group of people differently?

I have witnessed unequal treatment of people around me. He is my friend. He from East Malaysia, It is Sabah. He told me that West Malaysian doesn't likes peoples from East Malaysia, I shocked because i heard he said that. He told me that West Malaysian saying East Malaysian are uncivilized people, poor and they lives on tree and many more. I not so happy because West Malaysian looked down on them like this. In fact, East Malaysian is the richest state because they have plenty of natural resources which can bring wealth to their people but all the money had to go to West Malaysia because of the government's. He told me that when he came further studies and came to West Malaysia work, people from West Malaysian will treated differently from others, because of his slang in communication. They are different between East and the West. He can't understand them well and people from here too.

I told him that slowly and learn the slang here and they will started understand him well. He will slowly get accepted here. I'm so sad because peoples from West Malaysia treated them like foreigner, people from East Malaysian also Malaysian right? From my view, West Malaysia will never be well developed without the contribution and help from East Malaysia which is now listed the poorest state in Malaysia. It is so sad to hear these and we think it couldn't changed because an ideology have been plant on West Malaysia's people.