Maybe it me who insensitive but I generally find ppl nowadays too sensitive over racial issues.
I remember when in primary school, a high caste Tamil boy was called smelly by all other pupils in the class. But it not due to skin color but the coconut oil that other pupils cannot tahan. So is that racist now or it just kids being truthful about smell. No PC nonsense of nowadays.
In secondary school, where Chinese about 60%, the rest mostly Malays follow by Tamils and Gurkhas. No fights ever break out over comments such as Babi, m&d or chocolate. I won’t say there no racism but at least more tolerance. DM was malay cikgu in charge of NPCC, generally unbiased. Those days gangs in my school were multi racial. Those days there were no racial harmony campaign.
Now as a parent, racial harmony campaign many years later, every little incident also scream racism. PC must 100% with no means of being cheeky. Feedback from my kid regarding what happened in school sometime surprised me that teachers need to handle boliao petty quarrels over cheena, Babi or brown brown.
Racism go both ways. Racism victims are never minority race. Racism need not be insults hurl towards victims. Even being ignored can be due to racism. As a chinese, my daily interaction includes other races, I am not going shout racist after getting the short end of stick by other races. No point spoiling my mood over such boliao matters.