Below is a reply to a comment from Malaysia Waves blog. Since it’s quite long, and I have not written anything here for quite some time, I guess I’ll just post it here. The guy was responding to my earlier comment and here’s his original post:
Dragonajie,
This is 'pakcik dari serendah'. Sorry if I have to say that, I think you are dreaming. The malays are far behind the chinese in many aspects be it in retail business, trading, construction, manufacturing etc. The chinese in malaysia deserve it for their hard work and the ability to take up enormous risks. In employments, chinese graduates and school leavers will get the first call (in most industries) leaving the malays on second call. That is why there are so many unemployed malay graduates.
Their only evenue is to seek employment with the government and GLC, even that is challenged and questioned until the PM himself seemed to have problem in explaining. Low paying factory workers are mostly malays, smallholders and farmers are also mostly malays. Since majority of the population are malay, is it wrong for the government to assist the malay. Unity among races can only be achieved if the economic pie is shared equally but it is not in Malaysia. Don't blamed it on one dato's son whom you knew got a scholarship as these isolated group of people are just greedy morons. Malays still need help and don't expect other races to help. We need to help ourselves through politically unity...yes 'keistimewaan orang melayu dan bumiputra' in our constitution is unfair to DAP and PKR's point of view but as a malay man yourself, what do you think is fair then??
So my replies as below:
Salam pakcik dari serendah. Thanks for your response. :) I am not very good at debating issues like this, but I’ll try my best to express my point of view. :)
We talk about non-malays as if Malaysia consists of just the Malays. The standard Malay mindset is that the non-Malays can go to hell for all they care but the land belongs to the Malays. Is this the right attitude that we want to teach future generations? How about non-Malays who are born and bred here, who have been here for 4 generations, is Malaysia not their home too? Do they not pay their taxes? Do they not contribute anything towards building this nation? Isn’t it frustrating if the same thing happens to us, if the situation is reversed?
When we talk about poverty, why is it that only the Malays are of concern? How about Sabahans and Sarawakians? The Orang Asli? The Sikh? The Indians? For all its worth not all Chinese are rich either. Poverty is a universal problem regardless of race, so why only focus on the Malays? On Malay unemployment, it’s not just because of the ethnicity factor, it is also because many Malay graduates are incompetent. This is what happens when we put Malay quotas in local universities, the Malay students we gave education and study loans to are more interested in motorbikes. These ungrateful brats should be given the boot in their sweet hinds.
We are losing valuable non-Malay talents overseas. It is a real problem, when our own Malaysians prefer to work in Singapore, Australia, the US, the UK, when so much more can be done here. Imagine if one day Malaysia is attacked by the US or something like that, perhaps for our oil or whatever, wouldn’t we want the non-Malays with us to defend the country? Or would we see them say “Aiya, Ketuanan Melayu maa, tanah lu orang, lu orang defend sendiri laa”.
So what is fair? Equal opportunity, that’s what’s fair, in my humble opinion. We need to encourage more non-Malays to contribute to the country. Let them buy houses at the same prices as the Bumis. Poor Malays will not be able to afford to buy a house anyway so only Bumis with money benefit from it. Let them have more chance at getting study loans and scholarships. Allow more positions for them in the government. In return, we expect them to open up more employments in the private sector, and we want to buy supplies for our businesses at the same price that they are selling to their people.
I consider myself fortunate for being able to work in an MNC, and experience first hand how it feels like to be “marginalized”, intentionally or unintentionally, and it sucks. But like I stressed so many times, for things to change, we individually must change first. After all in the afterlife, there is no Heaven reserved for the Malays. :) Thanks for reading.
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