What can we do to improve racial harmony in Malaysia?

I don’t know if any one of you would consider my words ‘harsh’. I’ve been as easy as I could and even changed my avatar to a funnier, happier looking guy.

However, my heart goes out to Malaysians and victims of the racial supremist state and religious departments who over zealously maintain that their move is for the benefit of the rakyat (or shall we say, Malay rakyat?).

"Malaysians have your say", perhaps its time to give the opposition a chance? But I still doubt there will be real racial harmony in Malaysia. Not in this part of the world and definitely not in this century where widespread of violence and state racism is rampant.

There is not much that we can do, for an ordinary citizen but at least with such postings on the net, it reaches out to more people than the newspapers or radio and other media does. There’s also no fear of ISA as the web content is not locally based. In fact, Malaysians should NEVER be fearful if there is a good cause to fight for the truth.

Malaysians should remind themselves of the Bangsa Malaysia ideal and uphold to it. Don’t just complain about curropt politicians, remember that Malaysians are the ones who voted for them. Instead, make good use of medias to highlight their performance or propaganda they try to spead. Perhaps this will be a lesson to others as well and be more cautious in making statements.

The government has to remember that it is with the rakyat’s money that they are receiving their wages and they should change the attitude and mentality where if you are against the Malaysian government, you have to ‘get out’ (kindly refer to my post for the video clip and kindly refer to other ‘Malaysian’ posts where users use such abusive languages against one another).

The real peacemakers are the Malaysians themselves who can see the mistakes and are willing to admit it and make a change. However, many Malaysians are not willing to do so and rather, live in denial.

I can only say that Malaysians live in denial today because of fear of the authorities as Tun Mahathir would have put it; the Malaysian government has become a police state now.

How can Malaysians ever improve their racial harmony with skepticism and suspicion against one another? How can Malaysians improve their racial harmony with unjust treatment of equal citizenship rights with their Ketuanan Melayu ideology and Bumiputera rights?

When will Malaysians ever become Malaysians rather than Chinese, Indians, Malays and Lain-lain? I guess the minorities in Malaysia feels this as they are not given the equal privilege that others receive. They are still considered lucky to be in the ‘Chinese, Indians and Malay’ league but imagine the social stigma they face being ‘alienated’ as ‘Lain-lain’ instead of a Malaysian.

While others consider non-Malays to be immigrants, they should not forget that Malays themselves are made up of different roots and are of immigrants themselves so what the hell are they talking about non-Malays being immigrants and do NOT deserve the rights equally as the Malays? Every second to third Malaysians born here today are Malaysians by right and blind to the constitution. How can anyone claim superiority or ‘ownership’ of this land that even some ‘unknown’ races were even here before them???

Hope this helps and I do hope that this will be a good reference for those who know how to use my statement for the Malaysian nationalist strife with a good cause.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Racial harmony can improve if there is mutual respect among races. With the political scenario in Malaysia where DAP is a Chinese chauvinist party, the Indians are not together because they still practice cast system and then blame others for their failure it will deteriorate racial harmony. To recognise all races as Malaysians and forget their origins as chinese, indians or malays are stupid as in America they recognise themselves as Americans but they are proud of their origins as Black Americans, Hispanics, Chinese Americans etc. but they work together to build a good society and nation. Anyway you cannot change your colour and your culture so be proud of your origin.