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and the innuendos and conspiracy theories will start flying: people will begin to ask "is this Dr Ng really chinese or is he someone else?"
scary, because this all could turn out to be a boon for other racists.
Have you got the e-mail yourself? Or was it just passed to some 'selected' ones?
And you don't get headlines like 'Laman Web Perkauman Dajal' appearing in our mainstream papers' headlines.
Yes i do think we chinese are racist.
However, it is only because of the racist circumstances we live in that make us racist in defense.
So you reckon this is like the 'chicken and egg' kinda thing?
Not really..with the chicken and the egg analogy, we don't know which one came first. As for the issue you were discussing, its clear that the circumstances were created in the first place created resentment(sorry racist is too strong a word...i take it back from my earlier post) towards the majority race. I strongly believe that with full and equal rights in Malaysia, our resentment(or racism if you like) will not exist at all.
naw, didn't receive the email myself, but was pretty shocked to see it in such an inappropriate place (PMO webby). now that i've seen it, it might be possible to see the firestorm brewing if news about this gets out, ya?
hmm...don't think a chinese would actually write in Malay isn't it?
don't sound very authentic though...obviously done by a non-chinese i think.
The malaysiakini letter said that it was translated to Malay from an article (supposedly English) in a London magazine. So, any Londoners out there mind to shed some light on this? I'm not a Londoner myself...
The word "phishing" you used here is totally out of context.
The email didn't ask you to log in to some (obviously fake) "Internet Banking" site now, did it?
Then it's not phishing.
Sorry...not an IT jargon expert...then it should be spamming then...
Whoever he is, the Dr Ng Seng, or whoever the conspirator is, that kind of article do not go done well in a plural society of Malaysia.
Hating any race is detrimental to everyone. But the Barisan Nasional is composed on communal parties, each representing a singular race and each strives on competing objectives and personal goals.
Onn Jaafar was farsighted. He knew what will happenned of today. He tried to integrate the Alliance parties into one wholesome party representing Bangsa Malaysia. he was crushed and defeated by his own people. Thus ends, Bangsa Malaysia-type of government.
This article was first circulated in 2002, then in 2003 in forums, and now in the PM's website.
The first circulation was allegedly claimed to be published in a magazine in London in 2002 somewhere October. It was then circulated among the malays and the forums they visit.
First of all, if I were the author and I were chinese and I have secrets like that, I wouldn't publish something like this in the magazine - obviously a very stupid and idiot move.
Secondly, the content is obviously designed to make the malays hate the chinese. Direct hint will tell us it was written by a non-chinese.
The main motive of the article is clear, an objective to unite the broken up malays in malaysia by using chinese as the main ingredient, and to stir up racial harmony. The author hates the chinese, and he probably aged between 40 to 65.
There is no denial here there are certain amount of misunderstanding among the chinese and malays, especially due to May 13 1969 event. Chinese has always been doing well in trading and business since before the industrial revolution.
When the chinese migrated to malaya, they are equiped with this skills, because of that they had good relationships with the Sultans. However, the ordinary malays are poor and not taken cared of by the sultans in the early days.
After the independence of malaysia, a group of malays realised the chinese are well ahead of them, something had to be done, a revolution to change - the May 13 event. Since then quotas and government policies has been implemented to stabilise racial harmony.
Even though these policies are in place, hatred are still kept inside the hearts of some who cannot forget the event that had happened. The curse remains.
The malays had been very united until an incident, Annuar Ibrabim. When Dr M became the PM, he made full use of the power he had. Because of Annuar's case, the malays are broken up, NOT due to the chinese.
And the continuous support of Mahathir towards the chinese, the constructive criticism by TDM towards the malays so that they wake up or they will always lag behind the chinese had stir hatred among the malays towards the chinese, esp those who had not forgotten the 13 may event.
The younger generations who think rationally will realise they had to improve themselves but the older generations are a bit stubborn and will try to change things in a more extreme way - hence borned the extremist.
Generally, every race in malaysia is racist at some degree, solely due to inbalance of rights and privileges. It is whether if you are on the extreme side or not.
The non-malays, and since chinese is the largest non-malays in malaysia, it will have the loudest voice in fighting for just and fair treatment from the government. You may say the Chinese in Malaysia is the most racist but we are just voicing out opinions and request for a fairer treatment.
Whereas the malays, will keep suppressing the non-malays request because they are afra
Thanks for the long but truncated comment.
"You may say the Chinese in Malaysia is the most racist but we are just voicing out opinions and request for a fairer treatment."
Check the title again matey. It is with a question mark. It is a question, not a statement. That was what I'm questioning whether the seditious article was trying to portray Chinese as.
I think you are not quite used to the sarcastic Howsy here...
Too emotional and a no-brainer to be written by a Chinese, well, at least I know which race fits the original author. Without proper guts to own up, this little Hyena even disguise himself wrongly with an absurb 'chinese' name, but again if Malaysians can be easily manipulated into voting for BN and UMNOputras, you can't blame this Hyena from being an opportunist.
It's been interesting to read such free-flowing comments on an all "Malaysian" free for all. While we are on the subject, how many of you have read the book entitled "Contesting Malayness - Malay Identity Across Boundaries" Edited by Timothy P. Barnard published by Singapore University Press. (Read here for more and here and here )
Written by a Professor of National University of Singapore. Cost S$32 (about). It reflects the Anthropologists views that there is no such race as the "Malays" to begin with. If we follow the original migration of the Southern Chinese of 6,000yrs ago, they moved into Taiwan, (now the Alisan), then into the Phillipines (now the Aeta) and moved into Borneo (4,500yrs ago) (Dayak). They also split into Sulawesi and progressed into Jawa, and Sumatera. The final migration was to the Malayan Peninsular 3,000yrs ago. A sub-group from Borneo also moved to Champa in Vietnam at 4,500yrs ago.
Interestingly, the Champa deviant group moved back to present day Kelantan. There are also traces of the Dong Song and HoaBinh migration from Vietnam and Cambodia. To confuse the issue, there was also the Southern Thai migration, from what we know as Pattani today. (see also "Early Kingdoms of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsular")
Of course, we also have the Minangkabau's which come from the descendants of Alexander the Great and a West Indian Princess. (Sejarah Melayu page 1-3)
So the million Dollar Question... Is there really a race called the "Malays"? All anthropologists DO NOT SEEM TO THINK SO.
Neither do the "Malays" who live on the West Coast of Johor. They'd rather be called Javanese. What about the west coast Kedah inhabitants who prefer to be known as "Achenese"? or the Ibans who simply want to be known as IBANS. Try calling a Kelabit a "Malay" and see what response you get... you’ll be so glad that their Head-Hunting days are over.
In an article in the Star, dated: Dec 3rd 2006
available for on-line viewing at:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story...12814&
sec=focus
An excerp is reproduced here below:
"The Malays – taken as an aggregation of people of different ethnic backgrounds but who speak the same language or family of languages and share common cultural and traditional ties – are essentially a new race, compared to the Chinese, Indians and the Arabs with their long histories of quests and conquests.
The Malay nation, therefore, covers people of various ethnic stock, including Javanese, Bugis, Bawean, Achehnese, Thai, orang asli, the indigenous people of Sabah and Sarawak and descendants of Indian Muslims who had married local women.
Beneath these variations, however, there is a common steely core that is bent on changing the Malay persona from its perceived lethargic character to one that is brave, bold and ready to take on the world. "
The definition of “Malay” is therefore simply a collection of people's who speak a si
If you are looking for the text for analysis, there is still a copy at archive.org at http://web.archive.org/web/20060...1000&
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