Tuesday, January 23, 2007

The Chinese Association= disunity

So there it was, blatant racist, unexplainable and unjustifiable "unBangsa Malaysia" spirit, glaring at me right in the face.
What was it?
That a Chinese Language Society is not allowed to be registered as an Association in one public university.
The logic being a Chinese Society will cause racial disunity and does not promote "togetherness" of the races in Malaysia, it being an Association that caters only to the Chinese. After all, it is MALAYsia. As much as we try not to make it into a race issue, its quite clear why the Association is not allowed to be registered. I wonder if the Christian Association will have a problem too. Christianity sure does not promote Racial Unity because obviously it caters to an even smaller population than just the Chinese. So NO GO for them too.

I wonder if our PM has time in between his interviews in London, visits to Peru(was it Peru? Or was it Chile? Who knows really) to so call strengthen relations and tete-a-tete with the PM of India, he actually has time to monitor the progress of the nation in terms of becoming a "BANGSA MALAYSIA". While he has given too many advice to his fellow Ministers and rakyat to remember that this country is for all of us, Chinese, Indians, Malays and all other races (sorry people, unless the term "lain-lain" is changed, I have to refer to other races as lain-lain) i wonder if he actually knows that we prefer ACTION and not words. All the yak yak yak and the bla bla bla, its just rubbish. You SAY something, you DO it. If its all about saying, we dont need the PM to say it, everyone else can say it because it doesnt bear fruit and so it doesnt matter.

How can a Chinese Language Society be disallowed from registering as an association? Do we other races make a big fuss if you have a Sisters in Islam organisation? Or a Silat Association (obviously its not a Chinese or Indian thing) or any other organisation/assocation which caters only to the Malays?The last I check, we didnt.

And fyi its Chinese LANGUAGE association, not a Chinese Association whereby non Chinese cannot participate or join. The last I checked, the biggest Muslim population is in China. They speak Chinese right? They have traditional Chinese dances? They dress in traditional Chinese garb? The only difference is that they do not go to the Chinese temple but instead they go to the Mosque.

So, seriously.

Unless this narrow minded thinking can be eliminated, our vision of a Bangsa Malaysia with racial unity is merely a dream.

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