Kit Siang should say "Malaysia for Mongoloids"

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im Kit Siang and Muhyiddin Yassin got elected by the 'Rakyat' (Citizens of Malaysia) to debate over an anthropology matter? What madness is this? You mean to say that the Rakyat voted for you to have an intellectual discussion over whether oneself should renounce his or her biological make? This is truly MADINSANITY.

You are wasting precious time Parliamentarians! It has been a year since the new Najib Razak administration was given the trust to lead the country and the Rakyat wants to see some substantial results. The first year would normally be the 'communication' year whereby government introduces policies and conceptual mission and vision statements on how the country should or will progress - hence the NKRA, NEM, 1Malaysia, etc.

So let's concentrate on more pressing matters such as education, poverty, economic recovery or H1N1 for that matter. Why question whether someone is less of a 'Malay' when you very well know he is a Malay genetically? On the other hand, why bother entertaining such irrelevant question? I can imagine if it was Tun Mahathir, he would have said "... it is not in the best interest of the Rakyat for me to debate over this matter, let alone answer your question...."

We are tarnishing the image of Malaysia or Malaysians in the eyes of the world - just like how we laughed at Clinton for his sexual saga. It's like a circus full of 'Toms' and 'Jerrys' arguing over whose life should be more miserable - what a Mickey Mouse! Lim Kit Siang, a political veteran now suddenly got confused over the concept of ethnicity vs nationality? What a political manoeuvre that creates havoc rather than benefiting the country.

The question of whether oneself is a Malaysian first, then his/her race second (Malay/Chinese/Indian/Iban/Kadazan/etc) is an invalid one. How can you put a chronological order or prioritisation to those two concepts which have no relation to each other other than a mere stereotyping exercise?

For example, China was named after its people, Chinese? or was it the other way round; Chinese are called as such because they are from China? We know that China has numerous ethnic groups along its borders with India, Nepal, Mongolia, Russia, etc; and I am sure these groups still asscoiate themselves with whatever race they belong to - just like the Punjabis in India or the Kurdish in Pakistan and Iran.

You are born to inherit the biological traits of your parents. So if your parents are Chinese, then you are Chinese. Same goes to the Malays, Indians and other ethnic groups in Malaysia. Nothing rocket science about it unless you are like me who is one sixteenth Chinese and one sixteenth Indian that got injected into a Malay based blood (Acheh and Penang) - a truly 1Malaysia!!

If you are born in Malaysia, you are a Malaysian. A simple concept even a 3rd grader would know. Just like Americans have Caucasians, Blacks, Chinese, Espanic and the Red Indians. The beauty of Malaysia is the diversity. Let it be that way. What is more important is that the country should be developed to benefit all ethnic groups.

It is not wrong to be proud of who you are. I am a Malay and I am proud of it. The Chinese should be proud of being one and so do the Indians and the rest of the ethnic groups we have in Malaysia. For argument sake, even that is inadequate for self-actualisation. The Malays sometime go deeper to say that they are Kelantanese, or Johorean, or Javanese, or Bugis, or Minang, or Rawa, and the list goes on and on.

The Indians do the same when they start identifying who are Gujerattis, Tamil, Punjabis, Benggalis, Malayalis, Pan'e Kot'e (Sri Lankan) and here the list goes on and on as well. The Chinese of course associate themselves with their origins such as Fujian (Hokkien), Hainanese, Guangdong/Kwang-Tung (Cantonese) and Guangxi (Hakka).

So, mixing ethnicity with nationality is like mixing oil with water. In this era we are living in, the oil cannot assimilate into water just as yet. No doubt the time may come but it's far fetch at the moment. Whilst we do have inter-etchnic marriages, that level of assimilation has not yet reached a scale worthy of classifying a "Malaysian" race. Until that time, we will have to make do with what we have in the best interest of all.

If it's any solace, we can probably call ourselves the Mongoloids as the Malays, Chinese, Indians and the rest of the people from the Oriental-Indus-Polynesian subcontinents are actually Mongoloid based Homo Sapiens with a slight mixture of Negroid and Caucasian. So really, if Lim Kit Siang wants to be smart about it, he should say "Malaysia for Mongoloids".




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