Get out of my sight! You stupid Caucasians.

I was trying so hard to avoid generalizing people just because their white, black, brown, yellow or whatsoever but a recent incident at the Shanghai Pudong International airport just made me hate Caucasians in general. I’m not sure where in the world this family came from but I hate the fact that they’re so stupid, insensitive and (insert more synonymous words here).

On December 26, 2008 between 8:00 and 9:00 o’clock in the evening, my wife, daughter and I were on the second floor of the airport terminal 2 so we had to take the elevators up so we could proceed to the departure area. There were 2 elevator (left and right) doors carrying passengers from 1st to 3rd floor and there were five Caucasians (a father, a mother and their three daughters aging probably between 7 to 15 years of age). They were carrying, if my memory serves me right, 3 carts with their luggage. The front cart was situated on the front of the right elevator while the rest we lined diagonally in such a way that the end was blocking the left elevator. I asked the woman politely whether they were going up because none of them seemed to have pushed any of the elevators buttons. The woman responded, “No, we’re going down,” so I excused to press the up button.

And so the up button light up and it seemed that an elevator was going up from the ground floor.

When the elevator opened, I asked the woman again if they could move the carts so we could go in. The woman responded, “No, we’re going down,” and they hurriedly pushed their carts inside the elevators. The woman kept repeating, “No, we’re going down,” as if that was what I was asking for. Then the man pressed a button inside the elevator which changed the signal lights from UP to DOWN so they could go down.

Are all Caucasians as stupid and as insensitive and as dim-witted as those, pardon to ‘normal’ humans, humans? In the first place, I was the one who pressed the elevator button because they were merely standing in front of the elevators pressing nothing as if waiting for a divine intervention so it would open for them. Was I that divine intervention they were waiting for?

On my way back from Philippines to China, I was seated between two Caucasians and it’s making me want to just disappear into oblivion. On my right is a person who stinks strongly of a probable mixture of over-ripe guavas and onions while on my left is someone who was reading a book in the entire flight. Both of them conveniently had their elbows on both side of my armrest so I had to squeeze in myself throughout the flight.

And the locals worship foreigners from head to foot.