SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)

[leftyg]

Hi Bob..not Gleno, but Gleno is moving on... I lived in Malaysia for several years for my U.S. company, engineering the assembly and testing of Integrated Circuits. A very interesting culture there..about 50% of the people were Buma Putra, or native Malaysians, and Muslim. About 25% were of Chinese immigrant ancestry, and Budhist..the other 25% were of Indian immigrant heritage, and were Hindu.

On the surface there seemed to be calm..and acceptance of one another. As I got to know the Chinese and Indian engineers, I discovered there was a mutual animosity among the groups..sometimes developing into serious beatings or killings for the ethnics who found themselves in the wrong areas. The Chinese were particularly afraid of going outside Kuala Lumpur, into the villages, on the chance that their vehicles would be stopped, and they beaten or killed.

I found it sad..I have a firm belief that we are all God's children, and brothers and sisters...it is a pity that something in our nature stirs cultural and ethnic distaste, and even hatred.