for anyone who reads this

for anyone who reads this and doesn't already do so, please go and read Jae Young's blog entry for today.

no, such events should always have the power to shock, no matter how cynical one becomes in such matters. although a lot of people wouldn't categorise me as the most "Chinese" looking person they've ever met (and indeed, if people who have seen me speculate on my racial background, they either have no clue at all that i'm any part non-white, or else they guess that i'm either Chinese or some sort of hispanic, actually...o.o), i've gotten nice, offhanded little remarks, too. i think most people who don't fit everyone's image of the perfect little WASP generally do, at one point or another. but if such instances lose their power to shock, people become complacent and don't do shit about anything. thus, the situation becomes progressively worse, and worse, and worse...and it all ceases to matter.

as long as things of this sort continue to occur, any person with any sort of conscience at all should be shocked. and particularly if that shock spurs them into action. it's trite and cliched, but also true: the more people reached, the more difference made.

people are fucking ugly. >.<;;;