Racial Integration

I was having lunch with a friend the other day at a cafeteria in USM.
As I observed the vicinity of the cafe, I noticed the cliques of races at each table.
Racial integration has always been an issue hidden beneath layers of pretentious act.
The Chinese will have their own "orientation" solely for Chinese only.
It frustrates me.

Came across this article by a certain Irish scholar Peter Rowan who gave a pretty insightful thought on racial integration through the eyes of Believers.

"Here is an issue that is always current and potentially explosive but which is only occasionally discussed in theological circles, and rarely addressed in the congregational setting of many Malaysian protestant churches:
Racial integration.
The diversity of Malaysian society is well known:
a majority Muslim country with significant Chinese, Indian and indigenous communities.
On the verge of celebrating 50 years of independence, Malaysia has much to be proud of.
But substantial racial integration remains illusive...

Since reconciliation is at the heart of the gospel,
and since the gospel transcends the barriers of race, ethnicity and culture, and since the church is the most inclusive community on earth,
the local church is a community of hope in a fragmented world.
In Malaysia, the church has the task of not only proclaiming the message of reconciliation to all Malaysians, but of embodying the concrete implications of that message in its community life, so that Malaysians of all races can look at a local church community and see the gospel fleshed out in a racially reconciled group of people who can work, worship and witness together." (Peter Rowan)