I would liken the whole racist issue, or the term racism in theory, are largely attributed from ones upbringing and societal environment. The way we act, behave, perceives, identify and most unlikely being different in our unique selves are moulded into us from young and by the very condition of that habitat.
I may be wrong in the above statement, but we can never remove a face from a human being let alone strip his identity of what he is. Malaysia does have race segregation in very subtle form by mere cultural differentiation. I said subtle because once you're prepared to look beyond the religion and the colour of their skins, what we have are basic necessity for survival, merge and the almost taboo word “integrate”.
While integration itself is achievable, albeit all obstacles and perhaps time, we are seeing a trend now of racial territorial encroachment which must be dealt with first. Such events did not just unfold itself overnight. Integrity was at stake and far from being tolerant; we make defenses and seek for justice with our sentiments. All sides contributed in some way. It takes two hands to clap. As always, the initiators are deemed to be the culprit.
The race identity in my opinion is nothing more than a dwelling for us to return to at the end of the day to be with who we want and what we want. And all of us, including the rest of the world, submit to this ideology of territorial ownerships.
If ever integration, here for that matter, were to succeed, there should be a single law and constitution applied to encapsulate the general Malaysian to work towards, complied to and assimilates into. As it is, our country have various laws governing the differing races where one cannot applied simply on the grounds of ethical or identity reasons. We ourselves are practicing and adopting different set of principles and morality disguised as code of conducts passed down from generations of belief.
A common national goal got to be set. Not by driving the laws of integration right into the face of every Malaysian, but with adopting policies and creating a new way of thinking and acceptance with no bias implementation of that objective. Projects that are not "race based" or policies that applies to all irrespective of one identity and colour. We cannot proceed or even think of such prospect as long as the very fundamental mentality of the Rakyat clinging on to the grassroots idea of superiority and competition over the other.
I may be wrong in the above statement, but we can never remove a face from a human being let alone strip his identity of what he is. Malaysia does have race segregation in very subtle form by mere cultural differentiation. I said subtle because once you're prepared to look beyond the religion and the colour of their skins, what we have are basic necessity for survival, merge and the almost taboo word “integrate”.
While integration itself is achievable, albeit all obstacles and perhaps time, we are seeing a trend now of racial territorial encroachment which must be dealt with first. Such events did not just unfold itself overnight. Integrity was at stake and far from being tolerant; we make defenses and seek for justice with our sentiments. All sides contributed in some way. It takes two hands to clap. As always, the initiators are deemed to be the culprit.
The race identity in my opinion is nothing more than a dwelling for us to return to at the end of the day to be with who we want and what we want. And all of us, including the rest of the world, submit to this ideology of territorial ownerships.
If ever integration, here for that matter, were to succeed, there should be a single law and constitution applied to encapsulate the general Malaysian to work towards, complied to and assimilates into. As it is, our country have various laws governing the differing races where one cannot applied simply on the grounds of ethical or identity reasons. We ourselves are practicing and adopting different set of principles and morality disguised as code of conducts passed down from generations of belief.
A common national goal got to be set. Not by driving the laws of integration right into the face of every Malaysian, but with adopting policies and creating a new way of thinking and acceptance with no bias implementation of that objective. Projects that are not "race based" or policies that applies to all irrespective of one identity and colour. We cannot proceed or even think of such prospect as long as the very fundamental mentality of the Rakyat clinging on to the grassroots idea of superiority and competition over the other.
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