I was reading a recent interview of our foreign minister on BBC:
Sarah Montague:
Is it time to change Malaysia’s laws and treat everyone the same?
Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar:
When you talking about, looking at everyone, we’re looking at nation building. The most important thing is Malaysians feel they are Malaysians. To recognise our diversity as a source of our strength, there is no need for us to change the laws so long as we’re able to exercise the unity, we’re able to act as Malaysians. And I think this is happening, the process of nation building is not a short process. We came from a very divided society that was recognised by economic functions, living at a very poor living standard. So I think we have tackled the issues in a way that will bring peace and stability, at the same time people are able to share prosperity of the country. And this is happening..
…read more from
- official source: BBC UK
- blogsphere: The Cicak
Basically, i think Dato are talking crap thru out the whole Q&A session. however, i was surprise that there’re someone (which are not minority, obviously) that thinks totelly the opposite and believe that the racial imbalance in Malaysia is okay. read this, quoted from another blog that responded to the news:
Sementara anonymous blogger sentiasa memprotes apa yang mereka rasakan tidak berpuas hati dengan hak istimewa bangsa lain, manakala blogger yang mempunyai identiti di dalam blog pula membicarakan betapa mereka bangga lahir di bumi Malaysia. All that I can say is don’t fake it. Selagi Malaysia tidak menjadi seperti Singapore selagi itu perkauman akan ada.. Itu yang mereka mahukan. Di sana, orang tua terkutuk ketawa terbahak-bahak melihat Malaysia yang mana negaranya sendiri telah dijual kepada antarabangsa, National day pada mereka hanyalah satu hiburan, itu juga antara impian sesetengah bangsa di negara ini.
Mereka kata kerajaan bertindak pilih kasih kepada sesetengah bangsa dan mereka merasakan negara jiran lebih baik. Tapi mereka tidak sedar malah kerajaan sana juga bertindak pilih kasih cuma yang membezakannya rakyat di negara ini berhak bersuara tidak seperti di sana, mereka bersuara mereka akan ditangkap. Mahu jadi macam tu?
From http://imherenow.fwenz.info/2007/09/20/lol-2/
Feeling threaten?
“Mahu jadi macam tu?” i’ve been hearing so much of these - remember the infamous “Jangan cabar kesabaran kami?” Suddenly, i feel so threaten… i have so much dissatisfaction of current situation in Malaysia, i feel like a second grade in the country, and i have so much to say - as a chinese brought up in malay community (living in a housing area where half of the population are bumiputera soldier families). the situation wasn’t like this in the past!
But then, i recalled Yap’s blogpost about perfect… i recalled yap’s yelling that there is no such thing as a perfect world! i recalled that ore than 6 billion people live on this earth and every one of them have a different definition of perfect; all of them significantly contradict with each other! your definition of perfect is different than my definition of perfect.
And since the world can’t be perfect, of course, we can’t expect the world to be fair. We tend to overlook or even dismiss the imbalance when it’s in our favor; vise versa, we’ll magnify every unfair details and complain around… isn’t true?
Will you say it’s unfair?
Imagine this: If gov policy says that you can purchase my house with 5% - 15% discount regardless while the rest have to buy in normal price, will you say the situation is unfair? when most well known companies are forced to offer 30% of their ownership to you and your family, will you say the situation is unfair? your son get special pre-uni education and avoid direct competition with others so that they get a place in local university easily, will you say that it is unfair? there are dozen of entrepreneurship foundations to help you to start your own business while others have nil, will you say that it is unfair? your village has less than 500 students but gov built a new school with 100 classrooms and a big ball field, while others have to stucked in a 2500 students - 50 classrooms school with no field at all (and further more, others have to apply for it 5 years earlier!), will you say that the situation is being unfair?
OF COURSE NOT!
I would say i am getting what am i suppose to get; worse still, i would tell you to put your hands off the benefits i am getting right now or i’ll kick your arse! that’s what i’m seeing in newspaper, hearing from the radio news, watching on the TV news - everyday.
So hey, i had give up hoping for perfect, nor being fair - after all, the world is not fairly rounded in shape, how can you expect ‘fairness’ in boleh-land? 
