inferiority complex thy suffer…

Watch these films first, before you continue reading. Only then u’ll well versed in the issue i’m about to brought up.
The general consesuss is that they share one thing in common. The underlying issues within our superficial racial harmony.It should be noted that i’m not implying after all the hardwork to foster unity and racial compromise by our leaders it never bears fruit.It does, but what kind of fruit?

What we produce is a nice ,smooth looking fruit for the outside, but the inside remains sour and bitter.
If can be described in a few words, it will be, pretentious and ignorant. While malays live comfortably swimming in government subsidies and incentives, the other races claim they’re blissfully happy, complete with a smile plastered on their faces. Kongsi raya,open houses , are all cooked up ,however sincere and honest its intentions were in the first place,but at the same time subconciously blinded us that our racial conditions remains satisfactory.

Its pretty clever strategy. Feed us with success stories, publish all the sweet innates, calling
our alma mater being our so called racial diversity and how we are PROUD to have them( its all over the tourism pamphlets). And yet, malays never knew how to speak mandarin or tamil, what more to understand their culture.What does this reflects? It means that we never take racial harmony close to our hearts,it never runs deep into our veins, thats  why the problem is always lies deep, lurking in the darkness under the sunny bright side we make believe of.  True,nobody  said its easy to shake of herd mentality, research have shown people even kill to protect the sustainability of their own likes.
I believe we should ditch the ignorance and better start admitting that" hey, we have a problem here"

Forget the chinese and indians for a while, lets talk about other minorities.
Often we encounter and accident and ask  passers -by " Melayu ke cina yang mati 2?"
See whats the glaring mistake here? The appopriate question from a self-confessed racial harmonised country should be " Melayu ke ,cina ke ,india ke ,lain-lain yang mati?"

Which leads us to another problem. The " lain-lain" syndrome. Registration forms,government papers and various other personal information documents just put a mere box , labelled "lain-lain" to tick if one is neither a malay, chinese or an indian.The message of this paticular acts depicts as if we are reluctant to acknowledge their existance.So insensitive we are, we dissmiss them as " lain-lain", altogether denying the rights that they are actually a bumiputera and thus should be accepted that they’re here , alive and kicking.In fact ,they re the original bumiputeras, mind you, it was us, who invaded their land, took away their habitat, shooed them away in the name of development, depleted them of resources and now we’re dissmissing them as " lain-lain’. Good work , malaysia, Special Merit Awards for cruelty of the century.Bloody good display of budi bahasa.

Whats is so hard putting in other boxes labelled iban,kayan, melanau and etc. You live in a diversified country, deal with it, you should be expecting it. Right, if it is such a burden, a waste of ink, they say, just put a sentence saying " Please specify if others" and an empty blank, and they can proudly write their own race respectively.

Half of the blame should be put on politicians.Political parties are segregated within races , UMNO, MIC, MCA so the people think, " The people up there do it, why cant we?". So there you go, racial polarisation in our community.

I’m all for special priviliges for malay, the quota and all but not because i’ m a die-hard malay-centric, but because we dont have a level playing field yet.A firm believer of fairness and justice, we havent reached the DEB mission to entitle the bumiputeras at least 30% of economic equity lest the battle field is not even yet.The burning question is when will it be even? The DEB had been implemented at least 15 yeas ago , but still progress are slow.Constant pamperings and convenience from the govenment had made us mellow rather than competitive in the economic war.The backlash is predicted to continue for several years to come if we do not wake unsuspecting malays fom their dreamy utopian world and make them face reality head on.

The Indians, who once was a long way behind us, now fiercely fighting to close the gap in the name of racial suvival. Indian kids are trained fom little to grow up none other being doctors or lawyers.Deprived from any aiding means or help, they venture into business that noone even dared to explore before, particularly, the distribution of daily morning papers,( perasan tak, time deepavali or thaipusam, paper takde?) car-park facilities, and of course ,their extremely established chain of mamak stalls.Up untill now, they never fail not to reapt up steady profits.Along the way, closing the gap behind us,.Lets not even talk about chinese,will ya? they’re gazillion years ahead of us, and had never since stop to look back.The only resistance, as in, open resistance often come in form of Theresa Kok, MP Seputeh, although i felt she’s a bit over the top in various occasions. She was frustated on how very difficult for chinese student to enter public universities.And yet, should we be reminded that those minorities who made it often come up tops in their class. Big surprise.

My idea is, malays should be continuously reminded, and have all their once special priviliges taken away one by one, gradually.
Stop this malas-malas, the hasad dengki, the dendam ,traits which once "mat salleh the british coloniser" often associated malays with.Now, dont all caught up in anger,because how piercing it might be, it all rings true.

We dont need The Malay Dilemma II.

The writer hopes she would not be thrown in ISA for this . Those who tempted to do that should be  be reminded of the Second Amendment.She welcomes second opinions and debates from both  interested and infuriated readers.She also cant wait for the day when racial disparity had  finally eliminated to come.

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