Homo sapiens, being on top of the food chain, should set an example. Instead, it takes this dog, cat and rat to show us the way.
IMO, here's why we M'sians are NOT getting along - it's the politicians!!! Time and again, we hear them rant about "pendatangs", Ketuanan Melayu, raising the keris and bathing it in chinese blood, etc. Except for the indigenous people of M'sian, EVERYONE is a migrant. Heck, ALL homo sapiens on planet Earth are immigrants - we all are aliens from outer space! Haven't the science of astronomy proven all this? Aren't the life-giving blood of all of us is
Way back in the early 60's when I was in school, I don't feel the racial polarization. We all lepak together and till today we are still getting along very well and is constantly in touch, as our school reunion will prove. When my children were in school, they tell me that they felt "abandoned". So, I tell them to ignore this polarization and concentrate on their studies. With good results, it'll at least try to even out the 'play
ing field', in getting good jobs and other opportunities. Perhaps, this is the reason why the non-bumis are generally doing better, academically? Well, my children are graduates with no govt scholarships and it currently looks like they are having a great future ahead.
Perhaps, the below 2 articles below best illustrate the point and I stand corrected:
This list is common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those non-Malays (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Tamils, etc.) who have been racially discriminated against.
(1) Of the five major banks, only one is multi-racial, the rest are
controlled by Malays.
(2) 99% of Petronas directors are Malays.
(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese.
(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by Malays.
(5) 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must be of
Bumis status.
(6) 0% of non-Malay staff are legally required in Malay companies. But
there must be 30% Malay staffs in Chinese companies.
(7) 5% of all new intake for government police, nurses, army, are non
-Malays.
(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force
(RMAF), a drop from 40% in 1960.
(9) 2% is the percentage of non-Malay government servants in
Putrajaya, but Malays make up 98%.
(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese gove rnment servants in the entire government (in 2004); a drop from 30% in 1960.
(11) 95% of government contracts are given to Malays.
(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by Malay government,
e..g. Taxi permits, Approved permits, etc.
(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be sold to Malay
controlled Bernas in 1980s. Otherwise, life is made difficult for
Chinese rice millers.
(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed by Chinese
Malaysians were taken over by govern ment, and later managed by Malays since 1970s, e.g. UTC, UMBC, MISC, Southern Bank
etc..
(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia in
the past 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other Malay
transport companies due to rejection by Malay authorities to
Chinese applications for bus routes and rejection for their
applications for new buses..
(16) Two Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor Larkin
bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and three were
Chinese in Oct. 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason
given.
(17) 0 non-Malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar bus
(18) 8000 billion ringgit is the total amount the government channeled to
Malay pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatization of
government agencies, Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over a 34
years period.
(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down from 1968 - 2000.
(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down from 1968 - 2000.
(21) 2637 Malay primary schools built from 1968 - 2000.
(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Indian
schools got only 1%, Malay schools got 96.5%.
(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get
school textbook loan, a Malay parent with RM2000 salary is
eligible.
(24) All 10 public university vice chancellors are Malays.
(25) 5% of the government universities' lecturers are of non-Malay
origins. This percentage has been reduced from about 70% in
1965 to only 5% in 2004.
(26) Only 5% has been given to non-Malays for government
scholarships in over 40 years.
(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Jap an and Korea under the 'Look East Policy.'
(28) 128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the course to
which they aspired, i.e. Medicine (in 2004).
(29) 10% quotas are in place for non-Bumi students for MARA science
schools beginning in 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it
was 100% Malays.
(30) 50 cases in which Chinese and Indian Malaysians are beaten up in
the National Service program in 2003.
(31) 25% of the Malaysian population was Chinese in 2004, a drop
from 45% in 1957.
(32) 7% of the Malaysian population is Indian (2004), a drop from
(33) 2 million Chinese Malaysians have emigrated in the past 40 years.
(34) 0.5 million Indian Malaysians have emigrated overseas.
(35) 3 millions Indonesians have migrated to Malaysia and become
Malaysian citizens with Bumis status.
(36) 600,000 Chinese and Indian Malaysians with red IC were rejected
repeatedly when applying for citizenship in the past 40 years.
Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age.
This shows racism, based on how easily Indonesians got their
citizenships compared with the Chinese and Indians.
(37) 5% - 15% discount for a Malay to buy a house, regardless
whether the Malay is rich or poor.
(38) 2% is what new Chinese villages get, compared with 98% - what
Malay villages got for rural development budget.
(41) 0 temples/churches were built for each housing estate. But every
housing estate got at least one mosque/surau built.
(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing estates throughout
Malaysia since 1970. No temples or churches are required to be
built in housing estates.
(43) 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to have a
building constructed. But they were told by Malay authority that it
must look like a factory and not like a church. As of 2004 the
application still have not been approved.
(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002).
(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3) are
directors of non-Malay origin.
(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed
that the bad guys had Chinese faces, and the good guys had
Malay faces. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this
has become less of a tendency.
(47) 10 times, at least, Malays (especially Umno) had threatened to
massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13, since 1969.
(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from the
government to develop. These Chinese majority constituencies
would be the last to be developed.
(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racially re
-delineated so Chinese votes were diluted for Chinese candidates.
This is one of the main reasons why DAP candidates have
consistently lost in elections since the 1970s. (update to 2008
needed)
(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by the Malaysian
government since 1960.
(51) 0 - elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human
Rights) has not been ratified by Malaysian government since
1960s.
(52) 20 reported cases whereby Malay ambulance attendances treated
Chinese patients inhumanely, and Malay government hospital staffs
purposely delayed attending to Chinese patients in 2003.
Unreported cases may be 200.
(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally
knocked down Malays were seriously assaulted or killed by
Malays.
(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks fixed deposits
are only about 3.5% per annum.
source: http://steadyaku-steadyaku-husseinhamid.blogspot.com/2009/10/another-list-for-us-to-ponder-on.html
I AM almost completing the Graduate Diploma in Education at the University of Western Australia and have been looking forward to serving the country.
I completed my undergraduate Science degree in USM Penang and opted for an internationally recognised teaching qualification for security purposes.
I recently applied online on the Education Ministry’s website for the position of Guru Sandaran Terlatih and have been regularly checking the site for updates after I found it difficult to speak directly to a person about my circumstances.
When I finally managed to speak to an officer from the ministry last week, he informed me that the route to a permanent post is via an initial probationary period subject to confirmation, and that it was the same for teaching students from public and private colleges.
He, however, could not offer me more information and suggested I call back at another time. I later spoke to someone else in the office about the process and she told me that I would need to have my qualifications recognised by the JPA before I could be granted an interview. But she did not know what should be done after obtaining the JPA recognition.
Anyway, I called JPA and was curtly told that my qualifications are not recognised, never mind that it is internationally recognised. I was too distraught to proceed with further questions like where should I go from here, etc.
I do not mean to sound pompous, but my reports and academic results have been outstanding and I have even been offered a teaching position overseas. I declined because I wanted to come home to serve my country.
To be presented with such news is both disappointing and shocking. I guess I can still apply to local private schools but my desire is to make a positive difference in the public education system – a system that I am proudly a product of.
Now I need to figure out what to tell my parents who have funded this course with their life savings. I know I will be faulted for not finding this out before enrolling but really, who would have thought that an internationally recognised qualification is not recognised in Malaysia? Needless to say, I am disillusioned and extremely disappointed that my qualifications and big dreams have no place in Malaysia. Do we even need to wonder why young people are forced out of their own country?
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