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read this article someone posted in the *conversations* area of "Screenshots"
Extracted from http://www.freeanwar.com/Mar2004/facnews240304.htm
(no, i'm not talking bout anwar, just the article on tht site)
i find fault with paragraphs 14 to 16, quote:
para 14-..."How can there be equality for all races? We Malays own this land and the other races are all immigrants. They do not deserve equal rights."...
para 15-..."Now that they are citizens they demand equal rights. This is a breach of agreement. If they do not agree to Malays being given special rights and privileges why agree to it in 1957? They should have disagreed then. Then we could have sent them back to India and China. We did not force them to become citizens of this country. They wanted citizenship. And the terms and conditions of their citizenship was discussed and agreed. It was a social contract between them and us."...
para 16- ..."An agreement is an agreement. If you want to break it, fine. If you no longer want to honour the agreement, then that is okay. But the clause in that agreement where they get citizenship must also be rescinded. The non-Malays will then have to go back to their own country. After all, no one is forcing them to live here. If they do not like it they can leave. But do not expect us Malays to give up our special rights and privileges which have already been agreed upon long before independence."...
First things first, I am not racist.
Second, I won't discuss the special rights etc. its not new.
Third, the writer must still be living in the middle ages. Me, as most of my friends/acquaintances, are 3rd generation Malaysians, at the least. Our ancestral origins mean just that - origins. All the talk about being first class and second class citizens when we're Malaysian malays/chinese/indians..does that make one more or less Malaysian? He states "If they do not like it they can leave". Well, so can he. He can go back to time when all of Asia was still a big island and go back to wherever his ancestors came from (the current Indonesia, Borneo, Phillipines, Africa, Middle East, wherever).
Since he writes about *owning* the land etc, well, I probably qualify to own a fair share - since my maternal family is indigineous to Sarawak. So where's my share? Is it unfair to ask for equal treatment for all nation-loving Malaysians regardless of race/ethnicity? I certainly hope most Malaysians do not think like this unfortunate man here..
Extracted from http://www.freeanwar.com/Mar2004/facnews240304.htm
(no, i'm not talking bout anwar, just the article on tht site)
i find fault with paragraphs 14 to 16, quote:
para 14-..."How can there be equality for all races? We Malays own this land and the other races are all immigrants. They do not deserve equal rights."...
para 15-..."Now that they are citizens they demand equal rights. This is a breach of agreement. If they do not agree to Malays being given special rights and privileges why agree to it in 1957? They should have disagreed then. Then we could have sent them back to India and China. We did not force them to become citizens of this country. They wanted citizenship. And the terms and conditions of their citizenship was discussed and agreed. It was a social contract between them and us."...
para 16- ..."An agreement is an agreement. If you want to break it, fine. If you no longer want to honour the agreement, then that is okay. But the clause in that agreement where they get citizenship must also be rescinded. The non-Malays will then have to go back to their own country. After all, no one is forcing them to live here. If they do not like it they can leave. But do not expect us Malays to give up our special rights and privileges which have already been agreed upon long before independence."...
First things first, I am not racist.
Second, I won't discuss the special rights etc. its not new.
Third, the writer must still be living in the middle ages. Me, as most of my friends/acquaintances, are 3rd generation Malaysians, at the least. Our ancestral origins mean just that - origins. All the talk about being first class and second class citizens when we're Malaysian malays/chinese/indians..does that make one more or less Malaysian? He states "If they do not like it they can leave". Well, so can he. He can go back to time when all of Asia was still a big island and go back to wherever his ancestors came from (the current Indonesia, Borneo, Phillipines, Africa, Middle East, wherever).
Since he writes about *owning* the land etc, well, I probably qualify to own a fair share - since my maternal family is indigineous to Sarawak. So where's my share? Is it unfair to ask for equal treatment for all nation-loving Malaysians regardless of race/ethnicity? I certainly hope most Malaysians do not think like this unfortunate man here..
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