It has been said a million times, race and religion dominate Malaysian lives.
Everything political in this country is somehow connected with race and/or religion. In the past two decades, things that were once non-political are now caught up with race and religion. I can’t remember the last time a public issue was looked at from a Malaysian perspective. Three recent items really spooked me into thinking that we have now reached the height of looking at every issue through the prism of race and religion.
In today’s Malaysia, you simply cannot talk rationally anymore. You can be accused of being a racist or chauvinist at any time. Worse, you can be accused of being anti-Islam or a traitor. There is no avenue for an intellectual debate since the extremists make the loudest noise. The “silent majority” remains silent.
Everything in M'sia is about race and religion. There are several races and several religions. Instead of using these as a unifying factor, like in the advertisement."Truly Asia", racists abound everywhere. Why? Because that is the shortest cut to attention and fame.
Everything political in this country is somehow connected with race and/or religion. In the past two decades, things that were once non-political are now caught up with race and religion. I can’t remember the last time a public issue was looked at from a Malaysian perspective. Three recent items really spooked me into thinking that we have now reached the height of looking at every issue through the prism of race and religion.
In today’s Malaysia, you simply cannot talk rationally anymore. You can be accused of being a racist or chauvinist at any time. Worse, you can be accused of being anti-Islam or a traitor. There is no avenue for an intellectual debate since the extremists make the loudest noise. The “silent majority” remains silent.
Everything in M'sia is about race and religion. There are several races and several religions. Instead of using these as a unifying factor, like in the advertisement."Truly Asia", racists abound everywhere. Why? Because that is the shortest cut to attention and fame.
Racism is going to be outdated soon (maybe not in Malaysia), with the Glabalization, I personally think that in the near future, it would be pointless to know which race you are, but who you are as a character that measure against the global standard...
Race and religion has always been used as a TOOL, an out of date tool, I might add.
Common!! I trust Malaysians to have progressed beyond this.
When UMNO voice out, it is called championing or defending Malay Rights.
When you are not a Malay and you voice out, you're a racist and being seditious.
See simple is it not?
Although I admit I haven't travelled everywhere around the world yet, it suddenly struck me that only in Bolehland have I encountered the sudden roadblock of filling in the answer to my "race" in documents, even applying for a new mobile line.
Don't recall having to do this in other countries. Statistical reasons? Because we mainly have three races so we can fit that into a neat row on the page? Or...perhaps some other reason we all know too well. If 1Malaysia is to come true, that sort of mentality has to go...I am Malaysian and I want to be able to call myself that proudly without being reminded of my skin colour everytime I need to apply for something...
"It has been 52 years, and Malaysia has got to where it is now, whether you like or not, through the combined efforts of the Malays AND non-Malays (as Umno likes to classify us). Surely 52 years is long enough that the UMNO can acknowledge the efforts of the non-Malays and make us feel that this is our home too. Because it is! Don't call us Pendatang or whatnot. Don't tell us that we are still second-class citizens who have to pay more for houses and be second or third preference for scholarships and university places, because we are not of a certain race. That is racism."
Whatt i fail to understand is ,,utusan have been printing all kind of racial arcticles,,and yet is still doing it,,and the BN@UMNO government never interferred at all, why the hell Najib is louding 1malaysia,,when such arcticle is never banned and the paper is been like hero to umno and yetno actions taken so far. For Police or UMNO iit is not seditious. Then what constitutes seditious???
I envisioned that Malaysians, (Indians, Malays and Chinese) will come together when the wheels finally fall off our nation. At the brink of collapse, at the edge of disaster, when the national coffers are all but empty and poverty is the promised fate for all her citizen, will Malaysian realise that they are indeed Malaysians. Because nobody else in the world see us as three races, they only see us as Malaysians. Maybe we can pull through, maybe we won't.
Never. Racism and religious discrimination in other countries are stamped out by the govts. Here, it is actively encouraged and deliberately imposed. When the Malays and non Malays are divided and racial tension is kept alive and simmering, guess who benefit the most ? At stake are tens and hundreds of billions to be shared out and digested. The end justify the means. It is not about Ketuanan and special rights, it is plain old $$$.
The state that we are in today is somehow related to the efforts by our "forefathers". The bolehland , since independence, has stressed on the 'differences' of their sons and daughters. Now, everybody learns only to see the difference other than the similarity, ugliness rather than beauty, contempt rather than care of/from the others. Look at the politicians, are they doing the same .... (even to their own party members)? Yet, they questioned why they are being labelled as 'racist' by fighting for the 'differences' of themselves and against the others. Can we prosper if we continue in this direction.......?
mi1
"It has been 52 years, and Malaysia has got to where it is now, whether you like or not, through the combined efforts of the Malays AND non-Malays (as Umno likes to classify us). Surely 52 years is long enough that the UMNO can acknowledge the efforts of the non-Malays and make us feel that this is our home too. Because it is! Don't call us Pendatang or whatnot. Don't tell us that we are still second-class citizens who have to pay more for houses and be second or third preference for scholarships and university places, because we are not of a certain race. That is racism."
Whatt i fail to understand is ,,utusan have been printing all kind of racial arcticles,,and yet is still doing it,,and the BN@UMNO government never interferred at all, why the hell Najib is louding 1malaysia,,when such arcticle is never banned and the paper is been like hero to umno and yetno actions taken so far. For Police or UMNO iit is not seditious. Then what constitutes seditious???
I envisioned that Malaysians, (Indians, Malays and Chinese) will come together when the wheels finally fall off our nation. At the brink of collapse, at the edge of disaster, when the national coffers are all but empty and poverty is the promised fate for all her citizen, will Malaysian realise that they are indeed Malaysians. Because nobody else in the world see us as three races, they only see us as Malaysians. Maybe we can pull through, maybe we won't.
Never. Racism and religious discrimination in other countries are stamped out by the govts. Here, it is actively encouraged and deliberately imposed. When the Malays and non Malays are divided and racial tension is kept alive and simmering, guess who benefit the most ? At stake are tens and hundreds of billions to be shared out and digested. The end justify the means. It is not about Ketuanan and special rights, it is plain old $$$.
The state that we are in today is somehow related to the efforts by our "forefathers". The bolehland , since independence, has stressed on the 'differences' of their sons and daughters. Now, everybody learns only to see the difference other than the similarity, ugliness rather than beauty, contempt rather than care of/from the others. Look at the politicians, are they doing the same .... (even to their own party members)? Yet, they questioned why they are being labelled as 'racist' by fighting for the 'differences' of themselves and against the others. Can we prosper if we continue in this direction.......?
mi1
08/08/09
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