Selamat Pagi Malaysia...7.06am in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Tuesday morning. Powered on my iMac the above comments were the first item that caught my eye this morning...and as I read the first few lines my thoughts turned to the Malaysia that I left behind many many years ago.
I still remember 163 Happy Gardens where I stayed with friends when I was at UM. Next door to us was Kang, a Chinese from up North working in the Air Force (yes in those days they had Chinese in TUDM). We spoke to each other in Malay.
I remember Kampong Kassipilay. Indians were everywhere around us. I remember an Indian Temple right smack in the middle of Kampong Kassipilay. Bells were ringing every day as the Indians rang the bells to bring God into their life and to dispel evil and negativity out of their life.
And Penang? Yes, we stayed in Penang too. Yes lah too many Chinese there but what I most remember about Penang was the Nasi Kandar and the hustle and bustle of commerce and of life as we all, Chinese, Malay, Indians etc etc went about living life happily among our own kind - Malaysians all.
Yes BEAUTY OF DIVERSITY.....where has it all gone to now?
Life is just like that when you have DAY others have NIGHT....Variety is the SPICE of life....😂😂😂
The nazi malays in authorities and leadership hates diversity. They bring this issue out all the time in front of malay only student. They want the rest to assimilate and turn into malays. Like they say, in indonesia.
But indonesia language curriculum and standard of teaching is far more superior than ours so it works.
Diversity is also our strength. There would be officials and representatives able to serve tourists, customers or diplomats from China. English proficiency is already declining. Chinese proficiency is hanging on due to the existence of vernacular schools; to weaken the language further is detrimental to the nation's progress.
Take the most orthodox of all Arabs - the Saudis,they are modernizing but the Melayus are going back to medieval times in the 21 st, century ,why??