I know I should have updated more. It’s been three months since I last posted!

I’ve been travelling all over the world and busy with activism, advocacy and promoting tolerance. In fact, I just got back from a trip where I spent a good deal of time in East Asia, meeting with various activist groups and educating people there. I visited South Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.

Travelling really puts things into perspective – you can see who our friends are and who is willing to become a part of the 21st century world. For instance, the Taiwanese and the Japanese are more modern and pro-Western an open to Change. They are open-minded when it comes to relationships (especially now that some Japanese-Americans or Western-educated Japanese have returned to the Japan, bringing with them Western ideas), especially inter-racial relationships between local women and foreign men. I see this as a good thing in some circumstances as Japan has historically been a conservative, hierarchic structure, and importing a bit of Western culture (particularly the Western style of progressive liberalism) could help loosen up Japanese society a bit. In Taiwan I was even able to convince a local expat couple consisting of a Taiwanese woman who was in a somewhat dead-end marriage to divorce (and sue) her Chinese-American husband and start dating her former African-American classmate. At the time I even introduced them to a lawyer friend of mine to make things go smoother. Recently I just received word that she is pregnant and will be getting married to him soon!

The countries that tended to be more resistant to change were China and Malaysia. The Chinese tend to be quite racist and Han Supremacism is the underlying racist ideology behind almost all Chinese racism. The Han are the majority ethnic group of China, and their attitudes nearly rival those of the Nazis when they talk about other ethnic groups, especially the Tibetans who they invaded and continue to massacre en-mass until today. This was precisely the fascist ethnic nationalism that overtook Europe in the 1930’s and 1940’s and it is essential to all fascist movements all over the globe.

Malaysia’s backwardsness goes without saying as it is a Muslim country and still stuck in bronze-age ideas about “morality” as well as the White British Colonial legacy criminalising sodomy. Ironically before the arrival of the Muslims and later the British, the native peoples of Malaysia were quite tolerant. There was gender equality as well a form of democracy. Nevertheless, I met with a number of underground secular and atheist groups who are trying to change things in their own country.

After leaving Malaysia I headed over to Thailand for a few days, but my stay there was so short I can’t make any comments other than saying that the food was pretty good. From Thailand I went to Australia, happy to be back in a country with Western values once more!