Devas (gods) and Asuras ( demigods)

In Buddhist cosmology, the lower section of devas are consistently having a war with asuras. Most of the time, the devas are winning the wars, and at the result they always seem to enjoy their life most of the time (some said it's due to their good kamma). The asuras are always jealous with the devas because they always enjoy their life, and as the result, always wanted to topple the devas so that they can enjoy their life too (and probably make the devas suffer). Unfortunately, asuras most of the time, will lose the war against the devas and always suffer as the result. Each time they lose the war, the more jealous and hatred will develop in their mind towards the devas, while the devas continue to enjoy their life, sometimes unknowingly that the result of this act, cause more jealousy and more hatred that asuras have towards them.

In this life, I happened to be born in a not-rich Indonesian Chinese family. After becoming more adult and reflecting back to their situation in Indonesia, I thought that there is something seriously wrong with the culture and system in Indonesia. Why? To many Indonesian chinese the year of 1965 and 1998 is a nightmare to many. These are the years when the poorer Indonesian prosecuted the Chinese, and as the result many chinese are being killed, or raped. From the surface, it's easy to say that the chinese did nothing wrong and they are the victims and therefore we should blamed the people who committed mass murder or mass rapes against them.
But is this really the case? Frankly, I don't believe it is, because for something to happen, the condition must be right and most the time, the condition is ripen due to the action from both sides, chinese indonesian and non chinese indonesian.
Most people know that the chinese are a more well off than the non chinese, and tends to enjoy life much more (and sometimes to the extremes). You may think this group as the devas. The non chinese on the other hand, most of them will have a chinese towkay (boss) but has a very low salary, to the point that it's difficult to  just to live. When economy crisis came (like 1998), they would lose the job and as the result don't even have food to eat and maintain his life. And that time, what do you think they will think? Probably something like "the chinese is just a guest in this land. This is our land, but they are the one that is richer... somemore very proud and like to show off... " and gets very very angry, and jealous to this group of people... The result is of course tragedy that happened....Seeing in this way, things happened because there are faults in both groups and it is unfair to blame one group. (eg. if we blame the asuras for having a lot of hatred and anger towards the devas? we can also blame the devas for showing off and enjoying their life, while being insensitive to the asuras right?)

The story of asuras and devas, the story of indonesian chinese, is not the only cases around. In the history of mankind, these stories are being repeated again and again and again in similar forms in on way or another. Of course, from Buddhist point of view, the root of the problem is of course as what the Buddha said as "greed, hatred and delusion". But from political point of view, in terms of society, this is being aggravated by a very large income gap, and unequal opportunities that existed in the particular society. For the chinese indonesian case, do you really think that all the richer chinese are really better than the non chinese? If there is a more equal opportunity, if there is a fairer system, will the result still the same? Personally, I don't believe so. To me, a healthier society should learn from the tragedy that happened in Indonesia in 1965 and 1998 so that all the people will work towards less income gap, a more meritocratic system regardless of races, or groups, or in other words a fairer society.
This can be a very difficult think to achieve in certain society. A more recent example is probably Thailand, between the red shirt and the yellow shirt, between the privileged Bangkok and southern thailanders and poor rural northern thailanders....
Some said history tends to repeat itself. But, to me, we SHOULD learn from history so as to prevent mistakes that we as mankind committed in the past so as not to repeat the history again....

Final note: This blog expresses my own opinion. You may agree or disagree but would love to hear ur opinions...