WHY ARE SOME OF THE CHINESE AND INDIANS IN MALAYSIA SO NOISY AND THEY LIKE TO COMPLAIN TOO MUCH?
…ARE THE CHINESE IN INDONESIA, SIAM, MYANMAR, THE PHILIPPINES AND THE OTHER COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD BETTER OFF THAN THOSE IN MALAYSIA?
By Mansor Puteh
SO FEW CHINESE WHO ARE IN POLITICS ARE MAKING THE MAJORITY LOOK LIKE THEY ARE UNCOMFORTABLE LIVING IN MALAYSIA.
FORTUNATELY, THE MAJORITY OF THE CHINESE AND INDIANS IN MALAYSIA ARE HAPPY AND CONTENTED. AND THEY ARE NOT JUST THOSE WHO HAD MADE THEIR BILLIONS OR SCORES OF MILLIONS IN MALAYSIA.
IF THEY WERE IN OTHER COUNTRIES, CHANCES ARE THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO DO A FRACTION OF WHAT THEY COULD DO HERE. IT IS AN UNDENIABLE FACT.
The shrinking size of the Chinese and Indian populations in Malaysia is what’s causing some of the more sensitive of the lot to react aggressively.
Fortunately, these days they do not take up arms, but their pens and use or misuse their computers and blogs.
The hardcore Chinese and Indian criminals in Malaysia are also able to flee from the country to return to their Motherlands of China and India to escape persecution.
We have the noisy and uncomfortable Chinese and Indian minorities in Malaysia. What are they complaining about? Fortunately, there are so few of them.
They release their pent-up energies that had been contained through the twenty-one years Mahathir was prime minister. Now they release them and express all their hidden fears in the process.
But there is still not one novel or short story or even poem written by the Chinese or Indian in Malaysia which describes their deep feelings for the country and how they felt gratitude towards the Melayu for having allowed their ancestors to stay in the country and be given jobs to toil; otherwise, they would have perished in the South China Sea like many of them did.
Haven’t the Melayu fed them well enough?
The actions and reactions of so few Chinese in politics in Barisan and Pakatan are causing the majority Chinese to suffer in the future and they have themselves to blame.
The majority Chinese know their lot; that their future is stuck in Malaysia and living in a Melayu majority country.
They have so long ago, since the 13 may, 1969 incident accepted the facts that for them to go against the flow of things, would not be good for them.
So they have accepted such facts and their misfortune to be in Malaysia because of the mistake their ancestors had made who had to come to Tanah Melayu in order to save their own lives.
Without the charity of the Melayu, none of them could be allowed into the country or survive if they had managed to do so.
Some of them are able to leave the country because they have education and social mobility. But for the majority who are not so educated having marginal and insignificant education from the vernacular Mandarin schools, they are trapped.
The majority of the Chinese of such stature feel lost. They know they can still hang around with their own kind. But they ask: For how long still?
The ‘pasar malam’ are being taken over by the Melayu. The Chinese foods are also now being sold by the Melayu such as char koey teow, soya bean curds and other soya products and the many other traditional Chinese fares.
What does it leave the ordinary Chinese who have no proper education beyond standard six or lower from the Mandarin schools?
They have nothing. Their future is in the balance. They can now only consider going into illegal businesses.
Unfortunately, the action by the authorities to destroy the illegal video business has caused many young and uneducated Chinese to lose their jobs.
Some of them opened food stalls while the others continue on with other illegal businesses.
That also explains why there are so many young Chinese boys and girls who are operating small stalls in the shopping complexes and malls selling phones. This is the only business that they can do with the limited education they have.
Most of their customers are Melayu.
But what if the Melayu boys and girls start to encroach into this line of business of to go away from them and not patronize their small stalls?
The Chinese business will go bankrupt leaving with the uneducated young Chinese boys and girls to become unemployed.
Some could go into the flesh trade as many of them had already done.
Others can try to emigrate by working in Chinese restaurants abroad.
But the rest will have to face reality of being rejected by the society which is becoming more Melayu dominant so much so if there is a Melayu Revolt, the Chinese businesses will become bankrupt in no time.
This can happen if Kampung Baru is developed and the Menara Warisan Merdeka is built.
The future of the Chinese in Malaysia is bleak.
Their strong hold of the economy of the country is mostly at the corporate level where so few Chinese control the companies.
The others who do not have any proper education will suffer.
And this situation is ripe for some Chinese who are in politics to react. That is why we hear a lot of noises coming from them in the parliament and the blogs.
They write anonymously because they are scared their voices which are faint cannot be amplified to sound loud as they know those noises ring hollow and totally meaningless.
They mostly reflect their own insecurities.
Although the few Chinese and also Indian champion of their races can still stand tall, but they are slowly being overshadowed by the Melayu.
Even if they try to split the Melayu voters and society by pretending to support the few Melayu renegades, they still have to kow-tow to the dictate of the voice of the majority within the party or coalition by embracing Melayu-ism so much so they also have to speak in Melayu in their party conventions where Mandarin and Tamil disappear and only those who are conversant in Melayu are admired and given any attention.
The Chinese in Malaysia have been a lucky lot. The reason being the Melayu have all along been treating them well.
They are being treated far better than their brethren in Indonesia and in the other countries, including in Singapura which is a new Chinese republic.
Yet, the Chinese in Singapura can do half as much complaining, shouting and challenging the authorities than what they can do in Malaysia.
It I therefore ironic how in Singapura which is a Chinese country controlled and administered by the Chinese, their Chinese community cannot complaint anything without the full force of the law come crashing on them.
Here in Malaysia, they can still have their own way.
But for how long still?
I do not see the Chinese in Malaysia having their way too long. The Melayu are taking note of what their leaders do in the parliament and the blogs as well as in the streets.
The Chinese in Indonesia tried to side with the Dutch but when the colonial power was kicked out of the country, the status of the Chinese also took a turn for the worse.
They were described as traitors and were treated accordingly after Indonesia gained independence from the Dutch.
In Malaysia, the few Chinese who are loud-mouth will cause the other Chinese to suffer if the Melayu react negatively to what they had tried to do, which is to exert themselves too much by forcing the Melayu to feel threatened.
By Mansor Puteh
SO FEW CHINESE WHO ARE IN POLITICS ARE MAKING THE MAJORITY LOOK LIKE THEY ARE UNCOMFORTABLE LIVING IN MALAYSIA.
FORTUNATELY, THE MAJORITY OF THE CHINESE AND INDIANS IN MALAYSIA ARE HAPPY AND CONTENTED. AND THEY ARE NOT JUST THOSE WHO HAD MADE THEIR BILLIONS OR SCORES OF MILLIONS IN MALAYSIA.
IF THEY WERE IN OTHER COUNTRIES, CHANCES ARE THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO DO A FRACTION OF WHAT THEY COULD DO HERE. IT IS AN UNDENIABLE FACT.
The shrinking size of the Chinese and Indian populations in Malaysia is what’s causing some of the more sensitive of the lot to react aggressively.
Fortunately, these days they do not take up arms, but their pens and use or misuse their computers and blogs.
The hardcore Chinese and Indian criminals in Malaysia are also able to flee from the country to return to their Motherlands of China and India to escape persecution.
We have the noisy and uncomfortable Chinese and Indian minorities in Malaysia. What are they complaining about? Fortunately, there are so few of them.
They release their pent-up energies that had been contained through the twenty-one years Mahathir was prime minister. Now they release them and express all their hidden fears in the process.
But there is still not one novel or short story or even poem written by the Chinese or Indian in Malaysia which describes their deep feelings for the country and how they felt gratitude towards the Melayu for having allowed their ancestors to stay in the country and be given jobs to toil; otherwise, they would have perished in the South China Sea like many of them did.
Haven’t the Melayu fed them well enough?
The actions and reactions of so few Chinese in politics in Barisan and Pakatan are causing the majority Chinese to suffer in the future and they have themselves to blame.
The majority Chinese know their lot; that their future is stuck in Malaysia and living in a Melayu majority country.
They have so long ago, since the 13 may, 1969 incident accepted the facts that for them to go against the flow of things, would not be good for them.
So they have accepted such facts and their misfortune to be in Malaysia because of the mistake their ancestors had made who had to come to Tanah Melayu in order to save their own lives.
Without the charity of the Melayu, none of them could be allowed into the country or survive if they had managed to do so.
Some of them are able to leave the country because they have education and social mobility. But for the majority who are not so educated having marginal and insignificant education from the vernacular Mandarin schools, they are trapped.
The majority of the Chinese of such stature feel lost. They know they can still hang around with their own kind. But they ask: For how long still?
The ‘pasar malam’ are being taken over by the Melayu. The Chinese foods are also now being sold by the Melayu such as char koey teow, soya bean curds and other soya products and the many other traditional Chinese fares.
What does it leave the ordinary Chinese who have no proper education beyond standard six or lower from the Mandarin schools?
They have nothing. Their future is in the balance. They can now only consider going into illegal businesses.
Unfortunately, the action by the authorities to destroy the illegal video business has caused many young and uneducated Chinese to lose their jobs.
Some of them opened food stalls while the others continue on with other illegal businesses.
That also explains why there are so many young Chinese boys and girls who are operating small stalls in the shopping complexes and malls selling phones. This is the only business that they can do with the limited education they have.
Most of their customers are Melayu.
But what if the Melayu boys and girls start to encroach into this line of business of to go away from them and not patronize their small stalls?
The Chinese business will go bankrupt leaving with the uneducated young Chinese boys and girls to become unemployed.
Some could go into the flesh trade as many of them had already done.
Others can try to emigrate by working in Chinese restaurants abroad.
But the rest will have to face reality of being rejected by the society which is becoming more Melayu dominant so much so if there is a Melayu Revolt, the Chinese businesses will become bankrupt in no time.
This can happen if Kampung Baru is developed and the Menara Warisan Merdeka is built.
The future of the Chinese in Malaysia is bleak.
Their strong hold of the economy of the country is mostly at the corporate level where so few Chinese control the companies.
The others who do not have any proper education will suffer.
And this situation is ripe for some Chinese who are in politics to react. That is why we hear a lot of noises coming from them in the parliament and the blogs.
They write anonymously because they are scared their voices which are faint cannot be amplified to sound loud as they know those noises ring hollow and totally meaningless.
They mostly reflect their own insecurities.
Although the few Chinese and also Indian champion of their races can still stand tall, but they are slowly being overshadowed by the Melayu.
Even if they try to split the Melayu voters and society by pretending to support the few Melayu renegades, they still have to kow-tow to the dictate of the voice of the majority within the party or coalition by embracing Melayu-ism so much so they also have to speak in Melayu in their party conventions where Mandarin and Tamil disappear and only those who are conversant in Melayu are admired and given any attention.
The Chinese in Malaysia have been a lucky lot. The reason being the Melayu have all along been treating them well.
They are being treated far better than their brethren in Indonesia and in the other countries, including in Singapura which is a new Chinese republic.
Yet, the Chinese in Singapura can do half as much complaining, shouting and challenging the authorities than what they can do in Malaysia.
It I therefore ironic how in Singapura which is a Chinese country controlled and administered by the Chinese, their Chinese community cannot complaint anything without the full force of the law come crashing on them.
Here in Malaysia, they can still have their own way.
But for how long still?
I do not see the Chinese in Malaysia having their way too long. The Melayu are taking note of what their leaders do in the parliament and the blogs as well as in the streets.
The Chinese in Indonesia tried to side with the Dutch but when the colonial power was kicked out of the country, the status of the Chinese also took a turn for the worse.
They were described as traitors and were treated accordingly after Indonesia gained independence from the Dutch.
In Malaysia, the few Chinese who are loud-mouth will cause the other Chinese to suffer if the Melayu react negatively to what they had tried to do, which is to exert themselves too much by forcing the Melayu to feel threatened.
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Maybe if he put his energy tog his film thesis he would have his MFA by now. Has he ever done anything good after 'Seman'?