Thursday, February 12, 2009

Discrimination at KFC!

Last night, after having a good workout at the gym, we decided to go and feed our ravenous hunger..Being as it was 10.30, that was late already and the shopping mall was closing. Most of the food places were closed as well, except for fast food, which made me wonder why fast food outlets always close later..but I digress. Anyways, after walking around for a while we ended up at KFC and decided to have that. when we queued up there were 2 young Malay girls in front of us and we heard the server tell them that there were no chicken left and only burgers, even though there were a few pieces of chicken in plain sight. The Malay girls then looked a bit disappointed but with a resigned look, ordered the burgers.
When it came to our turn luckily I decided to try our luck and ordered chicken and the guy hesitated before turning to the manager nearby, who also hesitated before telling him to give it to us. Therefore, my conclusion is that the staff wanted to keep the chicken and didn't serve the Malay girls because they thought they looked like pushovers and then when it came to us, we were chinese and most likely will know our rights and how to complain so they didn't dare take the risk. The staff were Malay and apparently the accepted notion that they always give preferance to their own race doesn't apply when it's food!
This small situation tells a lot about racial perceptions and biasness and human behaviour methinks!

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