My Youtube Comment On Mahathir Grumbling And Jabbering That Chinese And Indian Immigrants Refused To Assimilate, They Looked Down On Malays
Om Ni
Very strange leh! How can an Indian become a Malay or a Chinese a Malay? Indian is a race, just as Chinese is a race. So is Malay a race. Just by adopting the culture of the Malay does not turn an Indian a Malay nor a Chinese a Malay. Ditto by adopting the culture of the whites will not turn a Malay into a white. Why all the POSITIONING AND THE POLITICIKING? Further, unlike in Indonesia, the non-Malay population is a substantial 40%. Using words like 'assimilation,' and 'integration' just for the sake of taking issue won't change the reality of one's ethnicity.
Why not emphasize unity in diversity? Because that's the reality, the country is truly multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural. The beauty is the diversity. The emphasis should be on unity. Ultimately, it is not profitable nor ingenious to term the non-Malays as 'immigrants' We are, after all, except for the Orang Asli in peninsular Malaysia and the natives of Sabah and Sarawak, immigrants in a greater or lesser sense. We are, after all, no matter what ethnicity, Malaysians, no?
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