SG0006 Proud to be Malaysian

Reading Malaysiakini becomes part of my life in Singapore, one of the channels I can have a look on what had happened in my country especially in the politic. Recently read a statement made by our Deputy Prime Minister, Malay First, Malaysian Second. I was so shocked where such a statement made by our Deputy Prime Minister who is the leader of our country. Is it so embarrasses to be Malaysian? Is so, when can “Malaysia’s” people unity to become Malaysian, a community that work together without racist to develop our country? Before independent, Singapore just likes Kuala Lumpur and Penang. But after 56 year, two country we start from the same line but Malaysia far behind the Singapore. Some people may said, Singapore is just an island, easy to manage. For Singapore government, it is not easy to manage an island size 710.2 km² that dense with 5 million people. They have to grab their head to manage such big amount of people within a small island. They may not do a very good job like some of the European country but to me, at least above the average. Looking backward to Malaysia, we have a lot of things compare with Singapore, yet we still far behind them.

I am Malaysian and I am proud to Malaysian. For more than 8 months I stayed in Singapore, when come to introduce myself to my new friends, I use to call myself as Malaysian. I never call myself as Malaysia’s Chinese. Even some of my friend from other country like Hong Kong or China, use to call us as Malay (they use to call Malaysian as Malay), I will tell them, not Malay but Malaysian.

當一個國家的人民失去了想象的共同體的時候，這個國家剩下的只有空殼。