I do at times wonder if I should blame the Malaysian authorities for their decades-long indoctrination exercise that has rendered some part of the Malaysian population unable to read and think out of the box. Still, I believe the Malaysian government - although it is not entirely unblemished - cannot be held responsible for some Malaysians who obstinately refuse to digest alternative views and opinions with an open mind.

Despite Chinese racism being a topic frequently raised among the Chinese in private, some Chinese Malaysians are still outraged by my audacity to wash the dirty linen in public not so long ago.

Similarly, so zealous are these people in defending the great socialist motherland, although they prefer to live comfortably outside of it, that they have overlooked my warning over the increasingly aggressive foreign policy of Japan, and chosen to tag me, conveniently, an antsy anti-Chinese when I disagree with them on the way the global Chinese community has been handling the most recent Sino-Japanese spat.

There is nothing one can do about the selective reading common among those who are so obsessed with their ethnic animosity, but I am duty-bound to, again, inform why the recent attempt by Tokyo to whitewash its war-time atrocities is merely a red herring in an East Asia that is fast becoming a precarious footing on the ladder, all thanks to the symbiotic relationship between Japan and the United States that is growing from strength to strength.