Kaum Cina Mari Perkukuhkan Gagasan 1 Malaysia

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Hello semua,saya tertarik apabila terbaca post daripada Su Ann tentang Malaysian Chinese dan saya rasa terpanggil untuk memberi respon terhadap post itu.Benar ramai yang tertanya-tanya apa lagi yang orang cina mahukan,ini bukan satu kenyataan yang bersifat perkauman tetapi hanya kebingungan yang melanda apabila kerajaan BN tidak mendapat majoriti 2/3 didalam pilihanraya baru-baru ini,diantara sebab utamanya adalah kerana tidak mendapat sokongan orang cina.

Ini tidak berlaku di zaman pemerintahan Dr.Mahathir,kerana sikap beliau yang tegas membuatkan semua orang,termasuk kaum melayu,cina dan india bahkan Raja-Raja Melayu juga hormat pada Dr.M.Semuanya bermula apabila Pak Lah dan mengambil tampuk kepimpinan negara dan diteruskan oleh Datuk Seri Najib,diwaktu itu Malaysia dilihat berada didalam zaman kegelapannya.Dizaman itu orang cina telah membuat beberapa permintaan yang besar yang juga telah menakutkan orang Melayu dan kaum lain.

Orang cina telah membuat permintaan yang pertamanya,supaya kerajaan membuka sepenuhnya kolej-kolej matrikulasi kepada orang bukan melayu ,yang ke-dua sistem biasiswa juga dibuka penuh kepada orang bukan melayu,yang ketiga kemasukkan pelajar di universiti dan kolej tidak perlulah mengikut kuota,yang ke-empat tanah di Kg.Baru dibuka kepada orang Cina untuk pembangunan,yang ke-lima MCA desak penambahan kerusi cina didalam Kabinet dan permintaan yang ke-enam yang paling menakutkan kaum lain adalah,untuk melantik seorang orang Cina sebagai Timbalan Presiden Barisan Nasional.

Semua orang sedia maklum sesiapa yang menjadi Timbalan Presiden BN tentunya secara automatik akan dilantik menjadi Timbalan Perdana Menteri,ini telah memberi gambaran apa agenda sebenar mereka.Permintaan mengenai pertambahan kaum cina kedalam Kabinet dilihat melampau kerana semasa itu Kabinet Malaysia mengandungi 6 orang menteri penuh berbangsa Cina dan 13 orang Timbalan Menteri berbangsa Cina.

Bagi Biasiswa dan kuota kemasukkan Universiti pula ianya sudah termaktub didalam perlembagaan negara dan didalam Hak-Hak Istimewa Orang Melayu yang telah dipersetujui sebelum Merdeka oleh semua kaum.Semestinya permintaan untuk membuka tanah di Kg.Baru menunjukkan rasa tidak hormat kepada Raja-Raja Melayu kerana tanah itu dianugerahkan kepada orang Melayu oleh Raja-Raja sejak berpuluh tahun yang lalu.

Terbaru di Penang,Ketua Menteri Lim Guan Eng didalam Majlis Pelancaran 'Governor Of Penang' And 'Peranakan Penang' Exhibition' telah sekali lagi membangkitkan rasa tidak puas hati kaum lain apabila mengumumkan bahawa rakyat asal atau penduduk asal negeri Pulau Pinang adalah kaum Peranakan dan bukan Melayu,semua orang sedia maklum dan sedar didalam sejarah bahawa pembukaan pulau pinang dan penduduk asal adalah orang Melayu.

Ini adalah satu usaha untuk melenyapkan orang Melayu di Pulau Pinang seperti mana yang dilakukan di Singapura.Di Muzium sejarah Singapura kini tidak lagi menonjolkan orang melayu,sejarah Singapura telah diubah oleh pemerintah sekarang.Kata mereka Singapura telah dibuka dan penduduk asal adalah orang peranakan,kenyataan ini semestinya tidak benar kerana semua sedar dan maklum bahawa pembukaan Singapura atau Temasik adalah atas usaha,Sang Lela Setia dan Temagi iaitu tuleh darah Melayu.

Didalam Persidangan Parlimen tahun lepas seorang timbalan Mentri MCA telah bangun dan menyatakan penduduk asal Malaysia bukanlah Melayu dan telah membuat kenyataan bahawa Melayu juga pendatang didalam negara ini,ini telah membangkitkan rasa tidak puas hati dikalangan MP-MP melayu juga mengugat kedudukan kaum Melayu.

Walaupun begitu kerajaan masih sayang akan kaum cina,berbagai kemudahan dan peruntukan kerajaan salurkan demi kepentingan kaum cina.Di Sibu,didalam satu Majlis di sebuah Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina,Dato Seri Najib telah mengumumkan peruntukan Rm8 Juta untuk sekolah itu,hanya untuk sebuah sekolah Cina,pada ke-esokkannya di Kuala Lumpur di sebuah Sekolah Melayu,Dato Seri Najib mengumumkan peruntukan sebanyak Rm100 ribu kepada sekolah itu.Perbezaan peruntukan ini jelas mencerminkan betapa kerajaan begitu mengambil berat terhadap kaum Cina,sehingga mengetepikan kaum lain.

Jika Kerajaan,Kaum Melayu dan India boleh mengetepikan soal perkauman dan kuasa,apa salahnya jika kaum cina juga berbuat demikian.Ketepikan soal-soal ini demi kepentingan negara dan anak cucu kita,sesungguhnya perjuangan kita masih belum selesai.Kaum Melayu,Cina dan India mestilah bergerak sebagai satu suara demi mempertahankan kedaulatan negara kita.Jika kita asyik bertelagah sesama sendiri negara lain akan mengambil kesempatan terhadap kelemahan negara ini,sama dengan sejarah kejatuhan Kota Melaka dahulu.Semua kaum haruslah berkompromi dan mengamalkan sikap 1 Malaysia yang telah diinspirasikan oleh Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang pastinya dapat menjamin keharmonian negara ini.






Malaysiakini | 3 April 2009

Timbalan setiausaha agung MCA menggesa Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak mewujudkan jawatan timbalan perdana menteri dan timbalan pengerusi BN untuk diisi presidennya bagi mencermin “perkongsian kuasa sebenar”.

“Rakyat Malaysia pelbagai kaum telah lama menerima dan memberi sokongan penuh kepada ideologi pentadbrain berasaskan kepada perkongsian kuasa di negara ini.

“Bagaimanapun, selepas 52 tahun merdeka, kita terus merasakan bahawa perkongsian kuasa itu hanya satu slogan dan tidak mencermin situasi sebenar, yang kita amat harapkan menjadi kenyataan pada suatu hari nanti.

“Oleh itu, rakyat Malaysia kini kecewa dan tidak puas hati dengan situasi sebenar kita sekarang kerana ia hanyalah satu cakap kosong,” kata Datuk Loke Yuen Yow.

Menurutnya lagi, jawatan kedua timbalan perdana menteri untuk presiden MCA bukan sahaja membantu merealisasikan konsep perkongsian kuasa, tetapi juga menunjukkan bahawa kerajaan memberi kepentingan kepada peranan dan sumbangan kaum Cina dalam proses pembinaan negara.

Loke menambah, jika diberi jawatan seperti dituntut, presiden MCA boleh, dalam kapasitinya sebagai anggota kabinet, membantu menggariskan dasar yang lebih adi dan berfaedah kepada semua pihak, terutama masyarakat Cina dalam ekonomi dan pendidikan.

Beliau juga menegaskan bahawa MCA telah mewakili perjuangan masyarakat Cina, untuk mencapai kemerdekaan negara, bersama Umno dan MIC pada 1957.

“Oleh itu, dalam proses pembinaan negara, sumbangan yang dihulurkan oleh MCA dan masyarakat Cina adalah amat banyak dan sangat besar,” tambahnya.

Pada masa yang sama, Loke mengulangi lagi desakan awal MCA bahawa presidennya mesti dilantik sebagai timbalan pengerusi Dewan Tertinggi BN.

“(Pelantikan) ini akan memanifestasikan senario sebenar perkongsian kuasa bawah pentadbiran Datuk Seri Najib,” tambahnya.

“Sebagai seorang pemimpin yang bijak dan berpandangan jauh, Datuk Seri Najib perlu melihat peri pentingnya dan keperluan mewujudkan jawatan-jawatan timbalan perdana menteri Cina dan timbalan pengerusi Dewan Tertinggi BN – yang kedua-duanya dipegang oleh presiden MCA.”

Hadi Likes 'Rojak'

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Hello.

It's been a long time since I've been here because I've been busy lately... Okay, that's a lie.

Now, I've read some books that are quite heavy like 'Satanic Verses' by Salman Rushdie (You might be wondering how I got this book though it was banned. My brother found it in a second-hand bookstore) but this book is too heavy and, honestly, I couldn't understand shiit(ake mushrooms). I'm not cursing, it's a name of a Japanese food.

BUT, I have found a "bite-size" book that truly is interesting. It's called 'Rojak' by Amir Mohamad. This book really is the shi(h tzu)! It's a compilation of many short stories in one book.

The stories in this book truly captures the essence of every Malaysians. Our lifestyles, our slangs, our music, our food, everything.

When I recommended this book to some of my friends, they'd say "I don't read, man." The thing is, this book is very light, its contents and its actual physical weight. Every short stories is no more than two pages. Also, the language that Amir Mohamad used in this book is really, really Malaysian-like and simple.

I wouldn't say Amir Mohamad is a genius. I wouldn't say that this is the best book Malaysia have ever produced. But 'Rojak' truly is a book that is just so... tasty.

Trust me, this post is no bullshit(surakuen).

Mom admits running washer with kid inside

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FUKUOKA (Kyodo) A 34-year-old woman under arrest for allegedly killing her 5-year-old daughter in Fukuoka Prefecture has told investigators she confined the girl in a washing machine and turned it on as a way of disciplining her, investigative sources said Wednesday.

The suspect, Junko Egashira, who was arrested June 30 on suspicion of strangling her daughter, Mone, at their home in Kurume on June 27, said she put her daughter in a washing machine three times in June after covering her mouth with adhesive tape and tying her hands and legs.

Egashira told the investigators she also taped the machine's lid so the girl couldn't get out, and left her in it for two or three hours. She also admitted that she ran the water inside the machine and set it to start spinning, although she may not have done so in all three cases, the sources said.

Fukuoka police suspect that Egashira's abusive behavior escalated and led to the murder.


Thought:

What in the world is the mother thinking? Running a kid in a washing machine is a way of disciplining her? Poor kid.

Link to the news.

I'm In love with my GRANDSON

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just when i was browsing through facebook,
i saw a fren of mine posted a news on facebook..
den the title was so shocking and out of curiousity.. i clicked in and read..
the news was on may 2010..


'I'm in love with my grandson and we're having a baby'

HOT GOSSIP

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Pearl Carter is positively glowing with joy. She has a handsome new boyfriend, is enjoying an active sex life after many years of celibacy and, amazingly, is preparing to become a mother again.

But the retired grandmother isn't carrying the baby herself. She and her young lover have spent a staggering $54,000 hiring a surrogate to help them with their dreams of having a child.

What makes Pearl's decision to become a mum again even more shocking is that her new boyfriend is her biological grandson, 26-year-old Phil Bailey.

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Phil is the son of Pearl's daughter Lynette Bailey, and the pair is braving public horror and even prison by breaking one of the last taboos – incest.

However, the pair makes no apologies for their controversial plan to start their own family.

'I'm not interested in anyone else's opinion,' Pearl says. 'I am in love with Phil and he's in love with me. Soon I'll be holding my son or daughter in my arms and Phil will be the proud dad'.

Phil adds, 'I love Pearl with all my heart. I've always been attracted to older women and I think Pearl is gorgeous. Now I'm going to be a dad and I can't wait.

'Yes, we get laughed at and bullied when we go out and kiss in public but we don't care. You can't help who you fall for.'

Pearl was 18 when she fell pregnant with daughter Lynette. She was living with her Catholic parents in Indiana and they insisted she give the baby away, so as not to bring the family into disrepute.

They organised a private adoption and Pearl never again saw her baby girl.

Pearl went on to marry, but she never had any more children. Instead she searched for her lost daughter until finally giving up hope 15 years ago.

Finding each other

In 1983, Pearl's daughter Lynette had a baby of her own, who she named Phil. She raised him as a single mother.

'My mother told me she was adopted when I was 18, and at the same time she told me she'd been diagnosed with brain cancer,' Phil says. 'I was devastated.'

Phil nursed his mum for six months before she died. It was then he decided to track down his grandmother. It took three years before he found an address for Pearl and wrote to her.

'I was stunned to get his letter,' says Pearl, who was now single. 'My heart jumped that I'd be re-united with a grandson. I wrote back immediately and included my phone number.'

When Phil phoned Pearl, the pair admits they were both rather nervous. Pearl told Phil about being forced to give up Lynette for adoption, and Phil told Pearl about his mum dying of cancer.

'We both cried but kept talking for three hours,' she says. 'When he emailed me a photo, I thought what a handsome and sexy man he was before pinching myself – he was my grandson!'

Confused, Pearl talked to a friend, who told her about an article she'd read on Genetic Sexual Attraction (GSA), which occurs when close relatives meet as adults and are attracted to each other.

'I could now understand my feelings and realise they weren't wrong,' Pearl says.

In 2006, Phil met his grandmother for the first time.

'From the first moment that I saw him, I knew we would never have a grandmother-grandson relationship,' Pearl remembers happily. 'For the first time in years I felt sexually alive.'

Phil admits that he had the same feelings towards Pearl.

'I wanted to kiss her there and then,' he says. 'My feelings were overwhelming.'

The pair spent the first week shopping, bowling and eating out. During the second week, giggly on wine after a night out, Pearl decided she wasn't going to deny her feelings anymore.

Unexpected feelings

'I called Phil into my bedroom, sat him on the bed, and then I leant over and kissed him,' Pearl says.

'I expected rejection but instead he kissed me back.'

Pearl then explained to Phil what she'd discovered about GSA.

'I was thrilled and excited,' Phil says. 'I could be with Pearl and it was OK because she'd never raised me or been in my life.'

That night, grandmother and grandson became lovers.

'Making love to Pearl was a real eye-opener. It was love combined with all this sexual tension that had been building up,' Phil openly explains.

Phil, a carpenter, agreed to live with Pearl and get a job with a local building firm.

'Living with Phil as my life partner has been amazing. He cooks and cleans and we make love three times a week. We can't keep our hands off each other.'

Twelve months ago, Phil made the shocking admission that he wanted a child. Pearl told him she was desperate for a baby as well, but it was one wish that she couldn't fulfil as she'd already gone through menopause.

The determined pair then decided to use Pearl's retirement money to find a surrogate mother and buy a donor egg to inseminate with Phil's sperm. They placed an ad asking for an open-minded surrogate, and Roxanne Campbell applied. The three met up a few times and hit it off.

'Initially I was shocked,' says Roxanne on learning the couple were related. 'But they're a brilliant pair and I saw how much they loved each other. I know the baby will be loved too.'

The couple sees 30-year-old Roxanne once a month and accompany her for scans, with Pearl playing the part of a pal or the baby's grandmother.

'I am just so happy,' Pearl says.

'I am finally going to be a mum and not forced to give up my child. Phil's going to be a great dad. I never in a million years thought at 72 I'd be "pregnant" and in love with my grandson. I make no apologies and I believe God's given me a second chance.'


read it and tell me what do you think.. hahaha

awesomeness la..XD



Bodoh, bangang atau bahlul?

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When I was in Form One, a class-mate asked me "Engkau ni bodoh ke, bangang ke atau bahlul" ? . That's when I learnt that there are 3 categories of stupidity. I forgot all about it untill this week - when I suddenly remembered that question again. It was triggered by 3 pieces of news, all about spending money on unessential projects, splashed all over newspapers.

News 1
Government's plan to build a new Parliament House in Putrajaya at a cost of RM800 million.

News 2
Cost of building the new palace escalates to RM811 million.

News 3
Minister Datuk Nazri Abd Aziz says "government hasn't got enough money to provide our students with scholarships".

Bodoh, bangang or bahlul? If you spend RM1.6 billion on building a new Parliament House and a new palace, you of course won't have money to provide scholarship for our students. Many have already questioned the need for a new Parliament House. The country already has many palaces, many of them hardly used. So people wonder how does the idea of "rakyat didahulukan" fit in here.

Note

RM1.6 billion can finance the entire university education for at least 40,000 students or be used to build at least 40,000 low-cost houses for the poor rakyat.

So think about this, which category do we fit in : bodoh, bangang or bahlul?

Hello Malaysians, in future, think carefully before you cast your valuable votes because the 50 odd years old corrupted govt believes we are bodoh, bangang or bahlul.


Note: Personally I'm not surprised by this article at all. Have a pleasant study week ;P

Su Ann: Are We?

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articles that have come to my attention lately:

“Chinese Malaysians Asking Far Too Much”

By Zaini Hassan
Source – Straits Times, published Apr 30, 2010

WHAT else do Chinese Malaysians want? Let us put aside the reasons why they do not support the current government in Kuala Lumpur. Let us study first what else they want.

For that, we have to go back to history. The Chinese came to Malaya to seek opportunities. They had lived a hard life in mainland China for hundreds of years. Like the whites who migrated to the American continent because it was the land of opportunity, the Chinese migrated to Malaya to make their fortunes in this bountiful land.

The strategy of their forebears has borne fruit. The Chinese have attained what they wanted. They now live in the lap of luxury in this land of opportunity called Malaysia.

In fact, it is not only in Malaysia that they have attained what they wanted. They have even gained full control of Singapore. Singapore is not their original country. The Singapore Chinese and the Malaysian Chinese were originally boat people. The difference is that those who landed in Singapore managed to gain full control of Singapore, but those who landed in Malaysia did not manage to control Malaysia.

In Malaysia, the Chinese live in peace with the Malays, the indigenous people and the Indians. In comparison, in Singapore, the Chinese control politics and the Government. In Malaysia, the Malays still control politics and the government. The systems of both governments are the same, but it is vice versa: The Malays dominate in Malaysia while the Chinese dominate across the Causeway.

In contrast, the Malays in Singapore and the Chinese in Malaysia are very different. The Malays in Singapore lead ordinary lives while the Chinese in Malaysia lead lives that are ‘more than ordinary’.

In fact, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad once stated that if all the Chinese-owned buildings in Kuala Lumpur were lifted from the map, only the buildings in Kampung Baru, a Malay area, would remain in the city.

All the other buildings are owned by Chinese Malaysians. The well-known shopping centres in Malaysia are owned by the Chinese.

The Chinese Malaysians are fantastic. They control all the cities and major towns in peninsular Malaysia, as well as Sabah and Sarawak. They produce the largest number of, and the most successful, professionals. The school system of the Chinese Malaysians is the best among similar school systems in the world.

The Chinese account for most of the students studying in the best private colleges in Malaysia. The Malays can gain admission into only government-owned colleges of ordinary reputation.

With regard to corporate and private organisations, it is the Chinese who dominate. The Malays number just a few; most of them are low-level employees. In fact, knowing Mandarin is a prerequisite for applying for jobs in these organisations.

Finally, an annual survey by the Malaysian Business magazine has found that eight of the 10 richest people in Malaysia are Chinese. The following is the list of the 10 richest people in Malaysia:

Mr Robert Kuok Hock Nien
Mr Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan
Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng
Tan Sri The Hong Piow
Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay
Tan Sri Quek Leng Chan
Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary
Puan Sri Lee Kim Hua
Tan Sri Tiong Hiew King
Tan Sri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun

This is the reality in Malaysia, my beloved country. Is the current government, which has been in power for 52 years, cruel and totalitarian? What else do the Chinese Malaysians want? I think I know, and I think you know too.


and this is the article written in response:


Thuan Chye Responds to “Orang Cina Malaysia, apa lagi yang anda mahu?”(Utusan Malaysia article)

By Kee Thuan Chye

Every time the Barisan Nasional gets less than the expected support from Chinese voters at an election, the question invariably pops up among the petty-minded: Why are the Chinese ungrateful?

So now, after the Hulu Selangor by-election, it’s not surprising to read in Utusan Malaysia a piece that asks: “Orang Cina Malaysia, apa lagi yang anda mahu?” (trans. Chinese of Malaysia, what more do you want?)

Normally, something intentionally provocative and propagandistic as this doesn’t deserve to be honoured with a reply. But even though I’m fed up with such disruptive and ethnocentric polemics, this time I feel obliged to reply – partly because the article has also been published, in an English translation, in the Straits Times of Singapore.
I wish to emphasise here that I am replying not as a Chinese Malaysian but, simply, as a Malaysian. Let me say at the outset that the Chinese have got nothing more than what any citizen should get. So to ask “what more” it is they want, is misguided. A correct question would be, “What do the Chinese want?”

All our lives, we Chinese have held to the belief that no one owes us a living. We have to work for it. Most of us have got where we are by the sweat of our brow, not by handouts or the policies of the government.
We have come to expect nothing – not awards, not accolades, not gifts from official sources. (Let’s not lump in Datukships, that’s a different ball game.) We know that no Chinese who writes in the Chinese language will ever be bestowed the title of Sasterawan Negara, unlike in Singapore where the literatures of all the main language streams are recognised and honoured with the Cultural Medallion, etc.

We have learned we can’t expect the government to grant us scholarships. Some will get those, but countless others won’t. We’ve learned to live with that and to work extra hard in order to support our children to attain higher education – because education is very important to us. We experience a lot of daily pressure to achieve that. Unfortunately, not many non-Chinese realise or understand that. In fact, many Chinese had no choice but to emigrate for the sake of their children’s further education. Or to accept scholarships from abroad, many from Singapore, which has inevitably led to a brain drain.

The writer of the Utusan article says the Chinese “account for most of the students” enrolled in “the best private colleges in Malaysia”. Even so, the Chinese still have to pay a lot of money to have their children study in these colleges. And to earn that money, the parents have to work very hard. The money does not fall from the sky.
The writer goes on to add: “The Malays can gain admission into only government-owned colleges of ordinary reputation.” That is utter nonsense. Some of these colleges are meant for the cream of the Malay crop of students and are endowed with the best facilities. They are given elite treatment.
The writer also fails to acknowledge that the Chinese are barred from being admitted to some of these colleges. As a result, the Chinese are forced to pay more money to go to private colleges. Furthermore, the Malays are also welcome to enrol in the private colleges, and many of them do. It’s, after all, a free enterprise.

Plain and simple reason
The writer claims that the Chinese live “in the lap of luxury” and lead lives that are “more than ordinary” whereas the Malays in Singapore, their minority-race counterparts there, lead “ordinary lives”. Such sweeping statements sound inane especially when they are not backed up by definitions of “lap of luxury” and “ordinary lives”. They sound hysterical, if not hilarious as well, when they are not backed up by evidence. It’s surprising that a national daily like Utusan Malaysia would publish something as idiosyncratic as that. And the Straits Times too.
The writer quotes from a survey that said eight of the 10 richest people in Malaysia are Chinese. Well, if these people are where they are, it must have also come from hard work and prudent business sense. Is that something to be faulted?

If the writer had said that some of them achieved greater wealth through being given crony privileges and lucrative contracts by the government, there might be a point, but even then, it would still take hard work and business acumen to secure success. Certainly, Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, who is one of the 10, would take exception if it were said that he has not worked hard and lacks business savvy.

Most important, it should be noted that the eight Chinese tycoons mentioned in the survey represent but a minuscule percentage of the wider Chinese Malaysian population. To extrapolate that because eight Chinese are filthy rich, the rest of the Chinese must therefore live in the lap of luxury and lead more than ordinary lives would be a mockery of the truth. The writer has obviously not met the vast numbers of very poor Chinese.

The crux of the writer’s article is that the Chinese are not grateful to the government by not voting for Barisan Nasional at the Hulu Selangor by-election. But this demonstrates the thinking of either a simple mind or a closed one.
Why did the Chinese by and large not vote for BN? Because it’s corrupt. Plain and simple. Let’s call a spade a spade. And BN showed how corrupt it was during the campaign by throwing bribes to the electorate, including baiting a Chinese school in Rasa by promising RM3 million should it win the by-election.

The Chinese were not alone in seeing this corruption. The figures are unofficial but one could assume that at least 40 per cent of Malays and 45 per cent of Indians who voted against BN in that by-election also had their eyes open. So, what’s wrong with not supporting a government that is corrupt? If the government is corrupt, do we continue to support it?

To answer the question then, what do the Chinese want?
They want a government…

a. that is not corrupt;

b. that can govern well and proves to have done so;

c. that tells the truth rather than lies;

d. that follows the rule of law;

e. that upholds rather than abuses the country’s sacred institutions.

Because BN does not fit that description, the Chinese have learned not to vote for it. This is not what only the Chinese want. It is something every sensible Malaysian, regardless of race, wants. Is that something that is too difficult to understand?
Some people think that the government is to be equated with the country, and therefore if someone does not support the government, they are being disloyal to the country. This is a complete fallacy. BN is not Malaysia. It is merely a political coalition that is the government of the day. Rejecting BN is not rejecting the country.

A sense of belonging
Let’s be clear about this important distinction. In America, the people sometimes vote for the Democrats and sometimes for the Republicans. Voting against the one that is in government at the time is not considered disloyalty to the country.
By the same token, voting against UMNO is also voting against a party, not against a race. And if the Chinese or whoever criticise UMNO, they are criticising the party; they are not criticising Malays. It just happens that UMNO’s leaders are Malay.
It is time all Malaysians realised this so that we can once and for all dispel the confusion. Let us no longer confuse country with government. We can love our country and at the same time hate the government. It is perfectly all right.

I should add here what the Chinese don’t want:

a. We don’t want to be insulted,

b. We don’t want to be called pendatang

c. We don’t want to be told to be grateful for our citizenship.

We have been loyal citizens; we duly and dutifully pay taxes; we respect the country’s constitution and its institutions. Our forefathers came to this country many generations ago and helped it to prosper. We are continuing to contribute to the country’s growth and development.

Would anyone like to be disparaged, made to feel unwelcome or unwanted? For the benefit of the writer of the Utusan article, what MCA president Chua Soi Lek means when he says the MCA needs to be more vocal is that it needs to speak up whenever the Chinese community is disparaged. For too long, the MCA has not spoken up strongly enough when UMNO politicians and associates like Ahmad Ismail, Nasir Safar, Ahmad Noh and others before them insulted the Chinese and made them feel like they don’t belong. That’s why the Chinese have largely rejected the MCA.
You see, the Chinese, like all human beings, want self-respect. And a sense of belonging in this country they call home. That is all the Chinese want, and have always wanted. Nothing more.

The Utusan Malaysia article: Orang Cina Malaysia, apa lagi yang anda mahu?

Dramatist and journalist Kee Thuan Chye is the author of ‘March 8: The Day Malaysia Woke Up’. He is a contributor to Free Malaysia Today.



so, what do you think?