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oftentimes our actions and behaviour are influenced by racial considerations, consciously or unconsciously. For instance, it may be the case that many landlords in a typical Western country e.g. UK or the USA, don't really wish to let out their premises to coloured tenants, and that include of course, Asian tenants like Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese and Japanese. But the landlord in a typical Western democracy runs the risk of being hauled up by the authorities on charges of racism as he or she has run foul of say, The Race Relations Act and other anti-discriminatory provisions of the law. So at least in a Western democracy, racial discrimination - a form of racism - is made illegal and a non-racist stance is viewed always as politically correct.

Now if we turn our attention to one particular Asian nation - China - we will find that the Chinese could qualify to be among the most racist of all Asian peoples and they practise racism in many forms and sometimes their actions, while plainly smacking of covert or overt racism, could be quite bizarre, outlandish and positively laughable. Take the remark made by a young Chinese girl for starters: "In China we don't practise discrimination, even though we can't get used to the ways of the Blacks - but thank God - there is no Black ethnic tribe in China!" Accusing the westerners of being racists, the Chinese would claim that he or she is not one, but will always frown upon any Chinese, man or woman, who dates a Black ( there are now many Black students studying in China, mostly from African countries ) and one often hears of angry comments made by the Chinese in such abusive language as "we just can't understand why some Chinese girl could stoop so low as to go sleep with a nigger in the hope of being able to go abroad.." One incident which illustrates a clear case of racism happened in Hong Kong many years ago. An Indian lady, a lawyer by profession, collapsed in her home from a cardiac problem but when she was admitted to the hospital apparently she was not given immediate or adequate emergency medical treatment, partly or mainly because she was dark-skinned. She died without recovery from her coma and her husband, a White residing in Hong Kong, told of complaints made by his late wife of instances of discriminatory treatment in the hands of the inhabitants of Hong Kong, which was ( and still is ) almost 100% Chinese.

Race situation is in dire straits and racism is still rampant, to say the least, across

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