Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim asked the federal government to allow a small number of non-Bumiputra to be accepted into Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM). Just 10%... Well I think it is a good idea. Most of my brethren haven't learnt the meaning of "Masyarakat Majmuk" in Malaysia. I don’t think he betrayed our people, but instead he is doing us some good.
I thought we Malaysians, and Malays particularly supposed to be the most tolerant people in the whole wide world. It's true. It's written everywhere. In the media, in school text books - we often hear that our country is praised for its "Masyarakat Majmuk", a role model to other countries.
But you can almost see it in their faces, the ones that marched objecting the proposal on the basis of “Malay Special Rights”. I can almost smell stench of hatred, those racist faeces all over their skin, and their eyes shows fear. I am really ashamed of what my brothers are doing.
What is there to worry? Everybody deserves to learn. What’s wrong with learning together? Why can’t we be as one as Malaysian. Or are they afraid of a little competition?
Are my people facing extinction? Why do we need all this special rights? Sure it comes handy when purchasing a house… but that’s about it. And yes, ASB! But I feel like we all are a bunch of losers and I can brand ourselves as “Orang Kurang Upaya”. We need shelters and help from the government to stay intact. Why can’t we do it ourselves like our Chinese brothers? They don’t need special rights and they managed to drive those shiny BMWs easily without government help. For that I respect them.
Just a week ago, I went for a coffee break with a colleague of mine. He’s a Chinese. He mentioned to me about how his cousin having a tough time with his girlfriend’s family. The girl is a Malay. He asked me why is it so difficult for them to accept it. So I asked him, “Bro… look around us. Tell me which table has few fellow of different races sitting together?” The answer is one. It was our table.
A couple of years back when I was studying in Malacca, I was sitting in a foodcourt with my girlfriend who is also a Chinese. A Malay salesman came over to our table to make a sale of his socks. I reject the sale. And then he asked me,”Brother, you are a Malay right? Why are you sitting here with a Chinese girl?” Before I said anything, my girlfriend told him off,”Sir, I love this man coz I know he will take good care of me by not selling any stinking socks to feed me.” The guy went away disgusted.
I also remembered about this guy in the university asked me,” Are you Malay? If you are… why are you hanging out with those Indians and Chinese?” It’s like as if it is a crime for me having friends of different creed. Well maybe he don’t understand about “Masyarakat Majmuk” at all because he came from one of those rural Malay kampong. I heard he never seen Indian and Chinese in his Kampong before except on TV.
Majoritiy Malays are afraid of knowing others. All they know about is about them, themselves. They expect others to know them, but they resist of knowing others. Sounds like we all are a bunch of self centered selfish fellows, aren’t we? So, infusing a little “Masyarakat Majmuk” into UiTM is not such a bad idea at all. In fact I feel, these kinds of things should start from young, from Kindergarten. Like the Malay sayings – Melentur buluh biar dari rebung. If not we end up like the Socks-Salesman-That-Talk-Too-Much or the Ignorant-Student-From-Malay-Kampong just like whom I mentioned just now.
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