Tuesday, October 8, 2019

This Is Why Bolehland Ain't Going Nowhere

People often question the non-Malays' loyalty to the country.

Better those people who ask this question ask themselves why they doubt the non-Malays' loyalty to Bolehland.

This might answer to some extent their doubt

That many people are still ever willing to call or, have no qualms in referring to, non-Malay citizens of Bolehland as pendatang ('immigrants,' and by implication, 'foreigners') even years after these 'pendatangs' have become third or fourth generation citizens, isn't exactly encouraging or fostering loyalty.

And at every turn trying to remind the non-Malay citizens of their status and in many a cases, even telling them to balik Tong San (go back to China) or the Indian Malaysian citizens to go back to India, just makes you wonder why they would doubt the non-Malay citizens of loyalty to country.

The non-Malay citizens are often made to feel unwelcome at every turn though they contribute to the national economy - paying, according to no less than the Pm himself at one time, 90% of the national income tax!

The non-Malay citizens also have to face institutionalised discrimination.

Constantly being reminded that they are not so much citizens as immigrants, at every turn, just makes you wonder what games so many people, especially the politicians, are trying to play.

After all, every Malaysian is an immigrant to one extent or another?

Except perhas for the native orang asli of peninsular Bolehland and the natives of Sabah and Sarawak?

We are, after all, all citizens of Bolehland and that should be that.

Period.

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