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via The Evil Mischievious Kitten:

I looked out the window.
And I saw

Thousands and thousands of Malays in the Bersih Rally. They were fighting their own kind for a cause they believed in. And they risk being ostracized by their Muslim brothers. And they risk much.

I looked out the window.
And I saw

Thousands and thousands of Indians holding the picture of Gandhi in the streets. All were teargassed and many beaten with batons. At Batu Caves, they were locked in, pumped with tear gas and sprayed with chemical water. 80 are awaiting trial. 31 are charged for attempted murder of a policeman that attacked them. All their leaders are under ISA. The one that got away fled the country.

I looked out the window.
And I saw

Thousands and thousands of Chinese closing their doors. Minding their own business. Watching the soap operas. Playing mahjong. Going to the gym. Planning for holidays. Eating bah kuet teh. Enrolling their children in private schools. Going for line dancing. Changing to a bigger car. Perming their hair brown. Going to the movies. Shopping.

The Chinese. They don’t look out the window.
Their houses.
Have no windows.

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James wrote:

My late grandfather came from the province of Fujian, China before World War 2 to escape poverty and hardships to the land “flowing with milk and honey” called Malaya. Hard work has always been my late grandfather key secret word when looking back on how blessed we are now.

Recently, I went to China with my family to trace my roots. It was an eye-opener experience for me. We saw a bunch of women washing clothes in the longkang. Yes, longkang, minus the urinated shit in the longkang.

Unlike in Malaysia, where we have either the morning or afternoon session. Here, the school session starts early in the morning at 7.30am and ends at 5.00pm. No wonder the Chinese are so hardworking. Kiasu maybe.

After the school visits, we happened to know what the Chinese had for their recreation: Playing snooker.

Interesting account of China…visit the link for more pictures =)

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via NST:

ISMAIL’S immaculately dressed elder brother Suleiman met him on his arrival, and quickly briefed him on the controversy over the Malayan Union. What immediately struck Ismail after being six years in Australia was how “political feeling engulfed Malaya as a fire engulfs a forest on a hot dry day”.

Ismail’s family was deeply involved in the resistance against the Malayan Union that the British, after the fall of Imperial Japan, were trying to impose on the whole peninsula. After the Sultan of Johor signed the MacMichael Agreement, a treaty with the British accepting the Malayan Union idea, seven men, led by (Ismail’s father) Abdul Rahman Yassin and including his eldest son Suleiman as well as son-in-law Awang Hassan, issued a pamphlet criticising the move. These men, all government servants, were consequently suspended for six months.

Ismail’s reading of the times was that Malaya was undeniably bound for independence, with “the pace (being) dictated by the national leaders while the British would try their level best to thwart them”. He also thought that Onn feared for the Malays should the British simply withdraw and felt the “wealth and the intellectual power” of the Chinese “would submerge the Malays” if independence was achieved too soon.

Apologies to our loyal readers. Postings will be sparse for another 2 weeks at least due to the earthquake.

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mdshah wrote:

This is an excerpt from the finding of telephone survey by New Straits Times on 1200 respondents which confirm that racism runs deep in Malaysia.

Negative stereotyping is well entrenched:

• 58 percent of Malays, 63 percent of Chinese and 43 percent of Indians polled agreed that Malays are generally lazy.
• 78 percent of Malays, 60 percent of Chinese and 40 percent of Indians think the Chinese are greedy.
• 60 percent of Malays, 58 percent of Chinese and 20 percent of Indians believe that Indians cannot be trusted

The findings confirm my own gut feel about the state of ethnic relations in Malaysia.

There’s a popular saying that goes “Numbers don’t lie”. I know this sounds stupid so don’t shoot me but let’s put a positive spin on it to make us feel a lil’ better =)

Positive stereotyping (assuming there’s nobody who answered “I’m not sure-lah”, “Don’t know-lah”, “WTF?”, etc):

• 42 percent of Malays, 37 percent of Chinese and 57 percent of Indians polled agreed that Malays are hardworking.
• 22 percent of Malays, 40 percent of Chinese and 60 percent of Indians think the Chinese are generous.
• 40 percent of Malays, 42 percent of Chinese and 80 percent of Indians believe that Indians are trustworthy.

Wow…sounds much better…lol

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Today, in Malaysia, there is no longer just the Chinese. Along the way, the Chinese people divided beyond dialects and religious faith. We now have denomination within the Chinese.

The major three groups are Regular, Cina, and Ah Beng.

The Regular Group is the minority, making up less than 20% of the Chinese people.
This group has the following characteristics:
1. Speaks English as the first language.
2. Thinks the world owes them a living.
3. Uses the Internet more than the other two groups combined.

lol…

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