Elevator encounters are never predictable. Sometimes you could have an amazing conversation while other times, they are just plain awkward. For TikTok user AmirahVgi, her lift encounter turned out to be a racist one instead, she said. This woman shared a TikTok video on Sunday (March 5) describing how she and her Chinese husband took the lift with their neighbour,...
Sometimes you could have an amazing conversation while other times, they are just plain awkward.This woman shared a TikTok video on Sunday describing how she and her Chinese husband took the lift with their neighbour, a Chinese uncle.
According to Amirah, the uncle asked her husband in Chinese "if he will still follow her if Singapore chased the Malays back to Malaysia"."I couldn't understand Mandarin, so I smiled. But in hindsight, I shouldn't have, right?" said Amirah in the video. What made the couple confused was that the Chinese uncle even held the lift for them, said Amirah in her post."If I honestly understood Mandarin, I would have replied him with 'What is your F–ing problem man?'" she added in the video.Amirah ends her video by stating: "It's never okay to make assumptions about someone based on their race or ethnicity. It's important to remember that we all belong to the same human race.
Some netizens who found her story relatable took to the comments section to share their personal experiences.
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