Transcending boundaries

I effing love it when we talk about transcending boundaries and living in a global community. We call this 'world without boundaries' (maybe thats why Israel marched into Palestine and took it out of their hands). Not only a loss to Palestinians but also a massive loss to Muslims.

Anyway, my post is not going to dwell on that issue as I have less than adequate knowledge to speak about it. However, what I want to say is the fact that we're losing our cultural and religious identity. Malaysian muslim's dress and behave like the western population. Try walking into a lecture hall wearing a full baju melayu. Suddenly you'll feel gazes plumetting onto you like its raining sheeps and cows. Are you proud of being different and original or do you feel like 'f*ck it, I'm never gonna do that again'? Thats only the material side of being different. How about using a corner of a building to perform solat when there are no facilities available? I can imagine how fast we'll try to read the compulsory surah Al-Fatihah and feeling adequate with the minimum SubhanAllah for ruku' and sujud. But lets not point fingers, we're all the same.

I'm not saying its wrong for us be like others but when it comes to eradication and total demolition of cultures, a fine line needs to be drawn. If not, you'll end up with this:

But by far, this is my favourite:

Don't we all love a bit of assimilation?

Disclaimer: I'm not being racist or am I saying Indian's don't have originality. Rather, its the opposite. Their ability to make everything 'Indian' deserve a huge hand of applause.