We've got leaders who don't think before they speak, if they do ever think at all. They're known for their derogatory, offensive, dumbass statements more than for anything else. Either insult and question the non-Malays or hurl insults at the women folk, these seem to be the favourite agenda when on speaking assignments. Or are they just so dense that they don't know what else to say?
I try to recall something constructive and smart uttered by these people (the said leaders) who've parked themselves in privileged positions, secure in the knowledge that the leader of the pack is no smarter than them; and absolutely nothing comes to mind. Their words are either atrociously hateful, e.g. 'pendatang', or violently chauvisnistic, e.g. 'women ask to be raped'. Or they just go round and round the mulberry bush, i.e. say a mumbo-jumbo of words that don't actually communicate anything intelligent or conclusive.
The latest is non-Malays being called 'pendatang'. This prompts me to imagine a Malaysia that's non multiracial and multicultural. Imagine a Malaysia without Indians and Chinese and Punjabis and every other non-Malay race. Imagine a Malaysia without Christmas, Chinese New Year, Wesak, Diwali. A Malaysia with only one language. A Malaysia with only one colour, with no Temples and Churches, with only one type of cuisine (for imitated Chinese, Indian and other cuisine don't equate authenticity). Imagine living one's days at work and with friends and neighbours and while out anywhere, surrounded only by the one's own ethnic race, the only race left here.
Not a pretty picture at all, it'll be a very sad little country.
I'd wan't my Malay, Chinese, Indian, Punjabi friends with all their cultures and everything that's them. I want them all.
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