The other day, while at Halong bay, my friend ask me
is it true that children born of mix parentage
are smarter, prettier, better looking and genetically better off.
She is a chinese gal and her boyfriend is an Indian bloke.
I ask her, do you want the sugar coated version or the bare truth?
The former answer would be some mumbo-jumbo, sprinkled words
intended for the listener. For the latter,not many can handle the truth,i presumed.
Lets take my friend's case for example, and lets discuss it in an objective manner.
Being an Indian guy in malaysia, there is an unwritten rule, that your wife should
be fairer than oneself, hence the eternal quest through the family tree to bleach before branch into
the next generation. Sometimes it work, but mathematically the entire process tends
to return to square one, if the daughters fall in love and marry an Indian bloke who are
way darker than them daughters. A long and tedious process i would argue; one step forward and two step
backward. A courageous swim towards a desire actualisation propelled by successful examples
of mix parentage, the way they view it through miopic lenses.
I think, the success of the offsprings depends alot on their parents or the opportunities that came along. A great thinker once says, his success
in life occur because he had the opportunity to stand on shoulder of giants.
Lets look at history of south east asia with regards to the rich and successful as
benchmark.
Tun Mahathir's father left India for better opportunities here in Malaya. He was a
authoritarian school headmaster who believe in a sound education for his children.
Further south, senior minister Lee Kuan Yew is a third generation chinese decendant
living in Singapore and had the opportunity to further his studies at Cambridge.
Up north Thailand ex-Prime Minister who is still in exiled would like to potray
himself as a commoner where his father is a coffee shop owner. However the truth is
he comes from a reputable family in northern Thailand that is involved in tax farming
and textile for generations before him.
Lee Ka-shing had a very rich father in-law and Robert Kuok's father used to play
mahjong with Tun Jaafar Onn. And the list goes on from Philipines to Indonesia.
There will always be wild card entries, individuals that managed to make it on their own.
For this group of people, they are rare to come along and far in between.
Coming back to my friend's initial question, I think they will do well especially for
their next generation because he has a well paying income and she also fares well on her side,
with both university educated.
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