1 Malaysia

This is a short movie from our beloved local director, Yasmin Ahmad, who had just passed away.



http://15malaysia.com/films/chocolate/

When i first watched this video, i felt like, yeah... that's what our parents taught us to. Ever since i was a little kid, my parents and my relatives had been teaching us the old prejudice of the races in Malaysia. Something like we're the one doing all the hard work, and yet the government running by the malays (duh, the prime minister was, and still is, a malay. i've got questions why other races cant be a prime minister? but i guess i'm chicken, so i dare not ask in public.) demanded us to share our hard-earned profit with the lazy, doing-nothing malays. All these, for the young minds of the chinese children, and almost all chinese families taught the same thing to their youngsters! can you imagine that?

The story went through a malay girl who stopped by the chinese boy's grocery shop to buy batteries. It felt for me like, the young malay lady was innocent, but she was ill-treated by the furious chinese boy, she does not deserve that. I felt like, the young ones in this video is potraying us. Some of us, thanks to our parents and families, we hate malays, for some unsure reasons. We never bother to find out whether do they still act the same way as their grandpas' treating ours'. We never give them chance to prove that they've changed.

And all these while, the politician has done a bad job working out the new slogan they've picked for 2009's National day--One Malaysia. Earlier in year, Haven't we saw on newspaper that some politician claims that us the chinese are just immigrants? Those politicians came from where? From BN. Where, to be exact? UMNO. Why are we being treated like this? Also, recently, i've heard from my pastor, about the History TextBook for Form 4 students all around the nation being tampered with, and all the efforts the Chinese and Indians poured out for the nation has been miraculously disappeared from it.

Tunku Abdul Rahman, don't you ever forget, when u travel to London to apply for Nation's Independence, Tun Tan Cheng Lock is just beside you! MCA has always been there for BN, and now? you want the clear away MCA's effort in Nation's independence history? Who is the one playing with the racist issue?

Our nation is doing what the Japanese is doing currently. They tried to beautify their invasion during the Second World War by tampering their nation's history Textbook. They tried to cover their cruel massacre in Nanjing, China, by telling their children there's no such thing. Is that they way they show they've repented? Showed that they've felt sorry for what they've done to the world in the past? i don't think so... i think they're just trying to make themselves look nice in front of their future leaders... they're trying to cover all the cruel things they've done, in order to have a good impression for their children. For that motive, perhaps it's still acceptable, still it's a wrong way to do. But our nation? what's the motive of tampering our history? Does this shows that they (the malays) hates us more that we hate them? Does this means they wanna drive us off this country?

Enough with the "fault-check",
to be honest, i like the idea of Malaysia being united as 1, not 3, or more. I mean, I'm born in this country, not born in china, and migrated here.
If there's a statute to protect the bumiputras, I think i should be included. Why? I'm Born in here, not china. In my ID card, it says my nationality is Malaysian, not China.
If "Bumi" people enjoys special rights, I think so do I. I mean, whats the difference between us the local-born chinese and indians, compared with local-born malays? skin color? eye color? hair type? Even malays have fairer skin-tone, which looks like chinese. what's so different?
Personally i don't mind my national language is Malay, as long as I have the chance to learn my own mother tongue. About the national religion, is that neccesary? isn't it in our law that in this country we are free to choose any religion? should we force on a national religion? if a national religion is set, it means the whole nation's having the same religion, that's what i understand from books, perhaps i'm wrong... but if we enjoy the freedom of choosing our own religion, why in the world was the malays excluded in this law? Do they have the chance to choose? i guess not... they were born muslims, if i'm not mistaken. Is this one of their special "BUMI" protection? if that's so, i guess i don't want to have that protection anymore. XD

1 Malaysia, it's a far dream, very beautiful, and yet far to reach.
if one day, the nation is fair, justice, no more political games, then, i think, the dream's finally coming closer and closer.