SHRIEKS AND SHRILLS FROM COMMUNITIES WHICH ARE FAST SHRINKING. – PART II.
…AND FOR NOTHING THE MELAYU IN MALAYSIA ARE BEING CHARGED FOR NEGLECTING THEIR WELL-BEING.
By Mansor Puteh
I PITY THOSE CHINESE AND TAMILS ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE VERNACULAR SCHOOL BACKGROUND BECAUSE THEY FEEL INFERIOR, FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO COMMUNICATE IN MANDARIN OR TAMIL THAT MUCH EXCEPT AMONGST THEMSELVES.
THOSE WHO ARE IN THE SMALL TRADING BUSINESSES IN THE ‘PASAR MALAM’ AND AT THE STALLS THEY OPERATE IN THE SHOPPING COMPLEXES HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SPEAK IN MELAYU AS THE MAJORITY OF THEIR CUSTOMERS ARE MELAYU.
THEY CANNOT AVOID FROM SPEAKING IN MELAYU. SO OVER THE YEARS, THEIR COMMAND AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE LANGUAGE SEEM TO INCREASE AND THEY ARE NOW ABLE TO RELATE TO THE MELAYU EVEN MORE.
They cannot survive without Melayu support.
And this is what the Melayu have got from them, especially by their community leaders who still harbor some leftover negative feelings about them.
They question ‘ketuanan Melayu’ and what it means and stands for, yet, they gleefully display their honorific titles which denotes how they value them.
Many Chinese are willing to do anything to ensure that they can get them so they can affix the ‘Datuk’, ‘Tan Sri’ or whatever title that are bestowed upon them.
Even the hardcore illegal moneylenders want to have a ‘Datuk’ affixed before their name.
This is how ‘ketuanan Melayu’ has cast a spell upon them which they still want to question. They don’t know what it means, so they are angry with themselves when they hear the slogan being cried out or written about like there is no ‘ketuanan Cina’ and ‘ketuanan India’ and the other ‘ketuanans’.
In America, England or Australia, where some of the Chinese in Malaysia had gone to seek their fame and fortune, they never asked about ‘ketuanan orang putih’. They never complained about being sidelined; they gladly enroll their children to the local schools which only have English as the medium of instruction.
They keep a low profile and behave well as citizens or those countries even when the countries do not allocate a single sen or an inch of land where they could build their vernacular Mandarin or Tamil school or temple. They are still model countries for them.
The reason being they are overwhelmed in those countries; so they are not able to do much. If they complaint, they can be seen as ungrateful.
Here, they are happy to be behave like ingrates who are not satisfied with their lot.
They do not talk about the many Chinese billionaires. They only highlight those amongst them who fail, but never admitting that they are so because they all have poor education at their vernacular school.
They never cared for the many Melayu in the rural areas who are still without proper supply of water and electricity. Yet, they are Bumiputeras.
They only want to be provided for. The best chance is during the elections and especially the by-elections where they made their many outrageous demands.
But even after getting them, they still voted for the opposition not because they like them, but because they had no choice, so they can demand some more.
The reporters from the Mandarin and Tamil newspapers hardly ever try to ask questions in press conferences. They stay to the back and write what the reporters from the Melayu and also the English language publications ask.
Unfortunately, there are still many Chinese and Tamils who do not, since they are not in such businesses. They end up not being able to speak much Melayu at all.
On the other hand, the foreign workers who have just come to the country for one year, yet they are able to speak in Melayu better than those Chinese and Tamils who were born in the country and have lived here all their lives.
They speak Melayu with a very thick accent and the vocabulary is limited to around two hundred words. One cannot engage with them in any meaningful conversation other than to exchange pleasantries.
It is too bad that there are still many Chinese and Tamil political and community leaders who insist on having their way with their schools.
And amongst those who are in the criminal activities, just how many of them have vernacular school backgrounds? Ask Bukit Aman for the statistics.
A general observation can tell just how many of those who have the national schools backgrounds go into the world of crime.
Who are involved in the counterfeiting of discs, smuggling into the country of goods from China and the flesh trading in the country? What is their educational background whether they have the national or vernacular school background?
Maybe a more serious study on this should be conducted by Bukit Aman and the well-meaning educational and community groups.
Now the MCA are trying to demand an allocation of one billion ringgit under the Tenth Malaysia Plan or Rancangan Malaysia Kesepuluh (RMK-10) to be spent on their schools. How much will the MIC then want to demand from the same government?
This is about sixty-six ringgit per Chinese, if the population of this community is said to be fifteen million persons.
Unfortunately, if we divide the amount amongst those who is in the vernacular Mandarin schools the average is even higher.
None of the Chinese political and community leaders want to discuss why are there so many Chinese and also Tamil parents who prefer sending their children to the national schools or ‘sekolah kebangsaan’ instead.
There must be a good reason for them to want to do so. This is very clear when they see how many of them succeed in their education and who are more confident with themselves.
They do not see their children and themselves as being less Chinese or less Tamil. On the other hand, they see them as being more Chinese and more Tamil as well as more Malaysians.
And how much are they demanding from their respective communities who had in the past provided them with the money to run their schools which they touted as ‘independent schools’?
Now they want to become ‘dependent schools’ instead.
This is a major shift in their attitude and strategy.
But to many, this also represents their desperation at seeing how their own communities have failed to provide for the continued existence of their schools which they had all along wanted to be independent of the national schooling system.
If the one billion ringgit is allocated, then they too must abide by the dictates of the government, which is to conform, or else they are not seen to be loyal.
The MCA has also admitted that most of the Chinese and Tamil voters for the opposition are those with vernacular school backgrounds.
So does this mean that they want the future voters to follow this trend, which can amount to the MCA being displaced by their own community? Are they doing their other Chinese-dominated parties a favor then?
By Mansor Puteh
I PITY THOSE CHINESE AND TAMILS ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE VERNACULAR SCHOOL BACKGROUND BECAUSE THEY FEEL INFERIOR, FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO COMMUNICATE IN MANDARIN OR TAMIL THAT MUCH EXCEPT AMONGST THEMSELVES.
THOSE WHO ARE IN THE SMALL TRADING BUSINESSES IN THE ‘PASAR MALAM’ AND AT THE STALLS THEY OPERATE IN THE SHOPPING COMPLEXES HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SPEAK IN MELAYU AS THE MAJORITY OF THEIR CUSTOMERS ARE MELAYU.
THEY CANNOT AVOID FROM SPEAKING IN MELAYU. SO OVER THE YEARS, THEIR COMMAND AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE LANGUAGE SEEM TO INCREASE AND THEY ARE NOW ABLE TO RELATE TO THE MELAYU EVEN MORE.
They cannot survive without Melayu support.
And this is what the Melayu have got from them, especially by their community leaders who still harbor some leftover negative feelings about them.
They question ‘ketuanan Melayu’ and what it means and stands for, yet, they gleefully display their honorific titles which denotes how they value them.
Many Chinese are willing to do anything to ensure that they can get them so they can affix the ‘Datuk’, ‘Tan Sri’ or whatever title that are bestowed upon them.
Even the hardcore illegal moneylenders want to have a ‘Datuk’ affixed before their name.
This is how ‘ketuanan Melayu’ has cast a spell upon them which they still want to question. They don’t know what it means, so they are angry with themselves when they hear the slogan being cried out or written about like there is no ‘ketuanan Cina’ and ‘ketuanan India’ and the other ‘ketuanans’.
In America, England or Australia, where some of the Chinese in Malaysia had gone to seek their fame and fortune, they never asked about ‘ketuanan orang putih’. They never complained about being sidelined; they gladly enroll their children to the local schools which only have English as the medium of instruction.
They keep a low profile and behave well as citizens or those countries even when the countries do not allocate a single sen or an inch of land where they could build their vernacular Mandarin or Tamil school or temple. They are still model countries for them.
The reason being they are overwhelmed in those countries; so they are not able to do much. If they complaint, they can be seen as ungrateful.
Here, they are happy to be behave like ingrates who are not satisfied with their lot.
They do not talk about the many Chinese billionaires. They only highlight those amongst them who fail, but never admitting that they are so because they all have poor education at their vernacular school.
They never cared for the many Melayu in the rural areas who are still without proper supply of water and electricity. Yet, they are Bumiputeras.
They only want to be provided for. The best chance is during the elections and especially the by-elections where they made their many outrageous demands.
But even after getting them, they still voted for the opposition not because they like them, but because they had no choice, so they can demand some more.
The reporters from the Mandarin and Tamil newspapers hardly ever try to ask questions in press conferences. They stay to the back and write what the reporters from the Melayu and also the English language publications ask.
Unfortunately, there are still many Chinese and Tamils who do not, since they are not in such businesses. They end up not being able to speak much Melayu at all.
On the other hand, the foreign workers who have just come to the country for one year, yet they are able to speak in Melayu better than those Chinese and Tamils who were born in the country and have lived here all their lives.
They speak Melayu with a very thick accent and the vocabulary is limited to around two hundred words. One cannot engage with them in any meaningful conversation other than to exchange pleasantries.
It is too bad that there are still many Chinese and Tamil political and community leaders who insist on having their way with their schools.
And amongst those who are in the criminal activities, just how many of them have vernacular school backgrounds? Ask Bukit Aman for the statistics.
A general observation can tell just how many of those who have the national schools backgrounds go into the world of crime.
Who are involved in the counterfeiting of discs, smuggling into the country of goods from China and the flesh trading in the country? What is their educational background whether they have the national or vernacular school background?
Maybe a more serious study on this should be conducted by Bukit Aman and the well-meaning educational and community groups.
Now the MCA are trying to demand an allocation of one billion ringgit under the Tenth Malaysia Plan or Rancangan Malaysia Kesepuluh (RMK-10) to be spent on their schools. How much will the MIC then want to demand from the same government?
This is about sixty-six ringgit per Chinese, if the population of this community is said to be fifteen million persons.
Unfortunately, if we divide the amount amongst those who is in the vernacular Mandarin schools the average is even higher.
None of the Chinese political and community leaders want to discuss why are there so many Chinese and also Tamil parents who prefer sending their children to the national schools or ‘sekolah kebangsaan’ instead.
There must be a good reason for them to want to do so. This is very clear when they see how many of them succeed in their education and who are more confident with themselves.
They do not see their children and themselves as being less Chinese or less Tamil. On the other hand, they see them as being more Chinese and more Tamil as well as more Malaysians.
And how much are they demanding from their respective communities who had in the past provided them with the money to run their schools which they touted as ‘independent schools’?
Now they want to become ‘dependent schools’ instead.
This is a major shift in their attitude and strategy.
But to many, this also represents their desperation at seeing how their own communities have failed to provide for the continued existence of their schools which they had all along wanted to be independent of the national schooling system.
If the one billion ringgit is allocated, then they too must abide by the dictates of the government, which is to conform, or else they are not seen to be loyal.
The MCA has also admitted that most of the Chinese and Tamil voters for the opposition are those with vernacular school backgrounds.
So does this mean that they want the future voters to follow this trend, which can amount to the MCA being displaced by their own community? Are they doing their other Chinese-dominated parties a favor then?
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