A truly Malaysian Lady!

By Victor Lim | Malaysia Chronicle

NOW! Does anyone have a beef with me for segregating Malays into Umno Malays, PAS Malays and PKR Malays?

If you have, please read what this lady (a very reserved word for the print media, meant only for the truly deserving) has to say about 1Malaysia.

And I have been identifying the Malays as such in my blog postings, for those who had noticed.

And please, I am not anti-Malay. I am just anti-Umno Malays who are led by cows. If you don’t get what I mean, google “Shahrizat cows” and read what you have missed out in the world!

Now, back to what I am getting at. I am 54+ years old and this Malaysian Lady is definitely a decade younger than me. She has my full respect for the facebook posting which I reproduced below.

Shame on you Muhyiddin ‘I am Malay First, Malaysian Second’ Yassin, the racist deputy prime minister of Malaysia and Umno deputy president.

Shame on you Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak for lacking the courage to tick off your deputy, thus failing to defend your 1Malaysia. Your cowardice is a reflection of your meaningless and pathetic 1Malaysia.

The Opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) has, to date, been consistent in defending against Umno’s racist and religious attacks on Malaysians (note: intentionally avoiding using the word non-Malays).

Malaysia will surely prosper with more of such Ladies.

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Both my parents are Malay. My mum’s heritage includes Chinese, Thai and Arab, while my dad is Minangkabau. Due to my skin colour, I am often mistaken for a Chinese.

I’m happy that I don’t have the typical Malay look but I do get annoyed when people call me Ah Moi or ask me straight up “Are you Chinese or Malay”

Like, why does it matter? Before I used to answer “Malay” but now I’m trying to consciously answer Malaysian instead.

There’s this incident from primary school that I remember till today. Someone told me that I will be called last during Judgement Day because I don’t have a Muslim name. Of course, I was scared then but now that I’m older, I realise that a name is just a name. It doesn’t define you as a good or bad person and there is definitely no such thing as a Muslim name. You can be named Rashid or Ali and still be a Christian.

I’ve heard of the 1Malaysia concept, but I think we don’t need to be told to be united. We’ve come such a long way that it should already be embedded in our hearts and minds that we are united. Unfortunately, you can still see racial discrimination and polarisation. There is still this ethno-centric view that the Malays are the dominant group and their rights must be protected, and non Malays are forever the outsiders.

For the concept to succeed, I think the government should stop with the race politics. It’s tiring, really. We grew up with application forms asking us to tick our race. We should stop painting a negative image of the other races, stop thinking about ‘us’ and ‘them’ and focus on ‘we’, ‘our’ and ‘Malaysians’.

No one should be made uncomfortable in their own home. A dear Chinese friend of mine said to me once, “I don’t feel patriotic because I am not made to feel like Malaysia is my home, and I don’t feel an affinity to China because I have never lived there.

I know some baby Nyonya friends who can trace their lineage back hundreds of years. I’m a fourth generation Malaysian. If I am Bumiputra, why can’t they be, too? Clearly I have issues with the term.

I think the main reason why we still can’t achieve total unity is because of this ‘Malay rights’ concept. I’d rather ‘Malay rights’ be replaced by human rights. So unless we get rid of this Bumiputra status, or reform our views and policies on rights, we will never achieve unity.

For my Merdeka wish, I’d like for Malaysians to have more voice, to be respected and heard. I wish that the government would uphold the true essence of parliamentary democracy. I wish for the people to no longer fear and discriminate against each other, to see that we are one and the same.

I wish that Malaysia would truly live up to the tourism spin of Malaysia truly Asia. Malaysians to lead – whatever their ethnic background. Only ONE NATIONALITY MALAYSIAN. No Malays, No Chinese, No Indians – ONLY MALAYSIANS…Choose whatever religion one is comfortable with.