An Indian girl shared her experiences growing up with racism.
She wrote that when she was at RGPS, she remembered being called a “black monster” by a group of Chinese girls who ran away in tears, screaming because she stared at them.
She also shared that a girl looked her dead in her eyes and told her “I don’t need an Indian to tell me what to do”, after she tried to explain to her what the teacher was saying.
Soon, the girl went to Secondary School and she thought things would change.
She shared that when she bought a plate of Chee Cheong Fun and poured the sweet sauce over it, a classmate laughed at her and said “you’re so lucky.”
The girl then asked “why?”
To which the classmate replied “if you spill the sauce on yourself, no one will notice, it’s the same colour as your skin hahaha.”
She wrote that she is now in JC, and is still facing the same racism.
She shared that during her 3rd day of orientation, she was called a “black girl” by a boy she had never met before, who explained that it was because he didn’t know her name.
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