The most cliche questions people ask when they 1st meet me!
WHO ARE YOU?
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My dilemma....
Chinese? Malaysian?
I just hate it when people (especially Chinese people) say,
"oh well,I'm not Malaysian. I don't feel like I belong to country. I'm just Chinese, and that is it."
And I understand why -Because the people who rule my country are not secure enough to let go off their power, of their bigotry, of their herd mentality and their selfishness
and are afraid of any change to the status quo.
Remember the countless, numerous forms that we've filled in ever since primary school. The race boxes where you mark "Melayu", "Cina", "India" or "lain-lain".
Why do we feel the need to categorise ourselves by race? Why do we say "I'm Indian" or "I'm Chinese", when really....all that matters is that we are Malaysians.
I mean seriously you don't go out and call an african of French descent a french African. You just call them French.You don't address some people as an Italian American. You just call them Americans... right!
I am not saying that I should forget the fact that I am a chinese.In fact I am a chinese.And I am proud of it.And of course it does not mean that as the
4th generation emigrant of me,I have no rights to identify myself with the country that my ancestors originated from. Just because my great great grandparents moved to a faraway land, risking their lives in order to seek a better life; means I should divorced my roots entirely?
And it matters so much to me that I'm both a Malaysian and Chinese.Simple because
being both is not a crime.
The crime is only when we let ethnicity separating us instead of having nationality uniting us.
13 comments:
I've been asked the question countless time. i just answer I'm Chinese Malaysian. People generally don't think twice about it.
Me too... but people in Russia do wonder why we categorize ourselves
pure political decision in splitting everyone so that the people cant be united against the govt that easily
I just hope that the politicians will come to their senses and never use ethnicity as their political tactics...
what a strong and meaningful post :) yeaps. we're msians!
Firstly otlichna post..it would be better if those tak sedar diri minister would read this and understand Malaysia's REAL situation too...rather than simply cakap kosong..sigh...so sad right...we Malaysians need to pray for Malaysia....
amyksy - Thanks so much for the compliment.. ^_^
jayneai - Thanks for the compliment too... I wouldn't really want the minister to read my blog... Don't want to end up like Raja Petra caught under ISA( though I'm just a small fry) ... haha..
i wld say many people that i knew, irregardless of race, wanted peace and regarded each other as malaysian. only the politicians are creating this ruckus for their own selfish benefits .... the love of money has gotten into their blood
No wonder they all always say never trust a politician... ^_^
make it white? can, of course can! we called that procedure - bleaching, v used bleaching agent like ur chlorox to deal with it. But v seldom do tat...if u want, u can come and i try to refer u to specialist to do!!
But ur in Russia wo!!!
I'm proud to be a msian!
malaysian of chinese descendant
Im proud to be one too...
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