My Malaysia is a paradise lost. As a non, born in 1957, I have seen and lived through the despairing slide to the bottom. My children have left and settled abroad, with my blessing. The Malays will decide the trajectory of tanah air ku and given that, it does not bode well.
Not just feeling disadvantaged, it is felt quite openly. There are more opportunities that are opened for Malays in Malaysia than for others. It is an open secret that even the liberal Malays, again in Malaysia, who are benefit from the racial economic imbalance, sitting quietly and not wishing to rock the boat. Yet call themselves "educated and liberal". It will take a miracle for Malaysia to turn around as the decay and rot has been left to fester way too long. BTN grandfathers have taught their sons and their sons in turn have taught their offspring, and the unquestioning Malay mind over the way a skewed practice of Islam is allowed to propogate, no questions - follow, or be ostracized by the community has culminated, in short " the halalism" of practicing racial economic and political policies which caters solely for the Malay community. Having lived through the 50's, this decay is not seen nor is it felt by any of the young Malays, born, post 1975. It is a different story for the "others". Malaysia needs to bottom out, a sort of a re-boot, in order to rise again. Whether or not it can will depend on it's rakyat, many way too dumbed down, unwise and needing to be told what to think and do, without questioning minds so well indoctrinated in schools and local tertiary institutions. Armed with their paper degrees, less creative laterally thinking minds, they head for the employment market, hardly worth the minimum wage as they are good for churning out mediocre products. One or two brilliant minds shine through, but far too few and in-between. I've employed a couple after a long thorough search and selection. Sieving through hundreds of CV's, painfully clear, most are clearly ill prepared for the employment market. My idea of the re-set requires the country to crash. All who live in it will suffer, idiots and geniuses alike, the lucky will bugger off to their second homes elsewhere. Most of the Malays will be in deep trouble for without their crutch, they are ill prepared to eke out a living. Expect crime to escalate to record levels, policing will be "privatised" for the rich and VIP's. Breadlines will form, soup kitchens, mostly halal, will flourish. Malaysia, as I knew her, is close to death. Euthanasia will be the best option. I truly wish to be corrected, and live in the hope that it will change for the better, one day, knowing it won't be in my lifetime.
My Malaysia is a paradise lost. As a non, born in 1957, I have seen and lived through the despairing slide to the bottom. My children have left and settled abroad, with my blessing. The Malays will decide the trajectory of tanah air ku and given that, it does not bode well.
Not just feeling disadvantaged, it is felt quite openly. There are more opportunities that are opened for Malays in Malaysia than for others. It is an open secret that even the liberal Malays, again in Malaysia, who are benefit from the racial economic imbalance, sitting quietly and not wishing to rock the boat. Yet call themselves "educated and liberal". It will take a miracle for Malaysia to turn around as the decay and rot has been left to fester way too long. BTN grandfathers have taught their sons and their sons in turn have taught their offspring, and the unquestioning Malay mind over the way a skewed practice of Islam is allowed to propogate, no questions - follow, or be ostracized by the community has culminated, in short " the halalism" of practicing racial economic and political policies which caters solely for the Malay community. Having lived through the 50's, this decay is not seen nor is it felt by any of the young Malays, born, post 1975. It is a different story for the "others". Malaysia needs to bottom out, a sort of a re-boot, in order to rise again. Whether or not it can will depend on it's rakyat, many way too dumbed down, unwise and needing to be told what to think and do, without questioning minds so well indoctrinated in schools and local tertiary institutions. Armed with their paper degrees, less creative laterally thinking minds, they head for the employment market, hardly worth the minimum wage as they are good for churning out mediocre products. One or two brilliant minds shine through, but far too few and in-between. I've employed a couple after a long thorough search and selection. Sieving through hundreds of CV's, painfully clear, most are clearly ill prepared for the employment market. My idea of the re-set requires the country to crash. All who live in it will suffer, idiots and geniuses alike, the lucky will bugger off to their second homes elsewhere. Most of the Malays will be in deep trouble for without their crutch, they are ill prepared to eke out a living. Expect crime to escalate to record levels, policing will be "privatised" for the rich and VIP's. Breadlines will form, soup kitchens, mostly halal, will flourish. Malaysia, as I knew her, is close to death. Euthanasia will be the best option. I truly wish to be corrected, and live in the hope that it will change for the better, one day, knowing it won't be in my lifetime.