Anyway, few days back my friend ask me to help him write an essay for his Malaysian Study. So this is what i wrote. hehe..
What is the one thing you most want to change about Malaysia?
Malaysia is a country that has multi racial citizens. It’s a good thing in a way that we can learn about other races culture. However, this has caused a racial bias and racism. I can’t deny it when people say that all of us is racist, at least to a certain degree, not only me, you, but everyone. I guess it’s just human nature that we tend to be more comfortable with our own ‘kind’. Well, in Malaysia, what will be your point of view when someone says that the Chinese are better in doing business? Well, it’s true they are, but isn’t this what we call racial stereotype? This isn’t something negative, but again, at the end of the day, race is still the factor that influences our judgments, thus racist.
People of every race tend to go on about other races. It happens everywhere. The racism issue in Malaysia isn’t something new, over the years, the ‘Bumi’ status privileges such as able to buy houses at a cheaper price, lower interest rate, easier academic lives, and etc. With no offense to any races, it’s sad to say that the Malays get so much advantage just because of their race, which is OK but as they take this privileges for granted, this privileges which was suppose to help them would work the other way round. They tend to be less productive as they aren’t required to work as hard compared to the other races in achieving the same thing. The ‘Bumi’ policy which was supposed to help the Malays is now doing more harm than good.
Our country leaders should set a good example, but that’s not the case here. We have political leaders that is racist, take Bukit Bendera Umno division Chief Ahmad Ismail for example, he was quoted saying that the Chinese in Malaysia doesn’t deserve to have the same privileges as the Malays as the Chinese are immigrants in this country. This statement of his has certainly raised the anger of many people in this country. He was sacked from the party for a few years but till this day, he didn’t apologize for the statement he had made. Imagine what would have happened if a non-bumi were to speak about the Malays in the same tone as how Ahmad Ismail did, I guess that our government would have make full use of the Internal Security Act ( ISA ) on him. Indirectly, it’s a kind of racial politics that one of our country biggest political parties, Umno, has been playing with.
At the end of the day, it is merely impossible for us to make racism a thing of the past, but together we can reduce the number of racist people in our country.
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