Gahmen want us to United as One. But are we treated as One?

So when I saw this logo earlier this year, for the first time in 26 years, I actually felt like I’m finally part of this country. Sharing the same aspirations like other fellow Malaysians, enjoying equal rights and benefits, irregardless of your gender, age, race or religion.

For the first time, I actually thought maybe the change has come. My children no longer need to worry about not being able to enter Gahmen universities with 8 A’s in SPM while their good friend sitting next to them with only 1 or 2 A’s gets a seat in Medicine in University Malaya because he/she carries a bin or a binti in the middle of their name. We, the non-bumiputeras, can finally enjoy same benefits with the bumiputeras, making us feel like part of the family and not being exploited for the first time…

Until I saw this advertisement not very long after on The Edge :

The "True" meaning of 1 Malaysia...

Non-bumiputeras apparently are required to pay an average of 3.33 times more for a house according to this advertisement of Sime Darby Property, based on a 7% discount given to the bumiputeras.

Why should it be like this?

There are many Malays, in all fairness to them (and whom I am close friends with), are smart, hardworking, and diligent. But if you’re a Malay and you’re reading this, and you happen to fall under the category of Malays whom I described above, won’t you feel ashamed to be given this unfair advantage over those non-bumiputeras whom you grew up, are friends with, and worked just as hard as you, if not more, to get to where they are?

It’s just like Vijay Singh being given a handicap when playing against Tiger Woods in a golf tournament and Tiger is forced to accept this advantage given to Vijay just because the golf tournament was held in Fiji Island in which Vijay Singh is a citizen and Tiger Woods a foreigner.

But where did Vijay’s ancestors originated? India (He’s Hindustan). He was born in Fiji.

Same goes to me. My ancestors were from China (I’m Hainanese). I was born in Malaysia and therefore a Malaysian citizen.

So why do I have accept that my bumiputera peers be given this unfair advantage when they are (or at least they claim to be) also as capable as I am?

IS THIS THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THIS 1 MALAYSIA THING?

I guess the Gahmen must have overlooked a typo on that logo they designed…

This should be the correct Logo...

On the 30th August 1986, a man by the name of Abdullah Ahmad, an Barisan Nasional MP from Kok Lanas then, delivered a speech on the “Issues in Malaysian Politics” at Singapore’s Institute of International Affairs. This was what he said :

“The Malays must be politically dominant in Malaysia as the Chinese are politically dominant in Singapore…”

“I know there are many Malays who have been telling me they would rather share poverty with Indonesia than see their political position eroded.”

He continued, saying :

“Without UMNO, as presently constituted, the future of the non-Malays would be bleak indeed”.

Now, for the 2nd time in 26 years, I suddenly felt like I’m not part of this country again

Funny as it may seem, the “director” of this video did quite an impressive job picking the right excerpt of a movie related to Adolf Hitler to tell his version of the story.

Hope you guys will like it.