The thing is, I sometimes wonder and confuse of what really we are our dilemma. Why do we associate our self with those traits and are we really that bad?
If I ask you… are you proud to be Malay? What are the good things about us?
I am sure that many of us will be able to list down hundreds of our good traits without many problems.
Subsidy…
A magic word that all of us Malay knows. The fishermen, the farmers, the businessmen, the school, the students, the parents and many more asked for it. Its like we can’t live without it. Or can we?
This morning some people were complaining about increase of school charges as government are not subsidizing any more (at least not as much as they were). They used to pay just about $15 for books. Now they have to pay more than $100 for each of their children for school charges. I can understand. With the price increase of everything now, you can’t expect to chuck in more money for your children.
The thing is… are we the only one suffering? The price increase effect is across the board. Its call inflation (by the way you can’t get 0% inflation – economically doesn’t make sense). All of us are effected. The Chinese, the Indians, the “orang asli”, the Singh’s, the mix… everybody. Never heard that the Chinese complaint about not getting subsidies. Cos they never got it… of course they complaint about the high cost of living. Who doesn’t? Maybe they don’t even realized that subsidies actually exist.. I’m not sure myself.
Enuf on that one..
And many more should I have the time to write about it…
But for all of it… I am one proud “MALAY”. Will always be a Malay.. “belacan” is a food. I guess the “positive” changes has to start somewhere and many more out there already started it. SO if you are a Malay… be one, be a damm good one.. as it is us who can make the change, not others.
“Tak kan Melayu hilang di-dunia” …Laksamana Hang Tuah..
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