ON 58TH MALAYSIA DAY

 

I was musing over Adzhar Ibrahims ponder on FMT today entitled "Let's Reboot Malaysia and Invite Brunei, Singapore Again." (original article link attached)

Adzhar Ibrahim means well and in the "True Spirit of Malaysia" this notion should be welcomed. But unfortunately the truth is far from that. Every Malaysian today are critically facing identity crisis. Malaysia today is categorically divided by race and religion, where every entity has cocooned itself within it's own construct promoting exclusivity.

The notion of INCLUSIVITY by virtue of UNITY IN DIVERSITY as Malaysian, is broken. We have moved from accepting diversity to tolerating it. That is indeed sad. Gone were the days when the sense of brotherhood or for the matter sisterhood overode every differences that we had. Somewhere along the way this EMOTION had been hijacked. What is left now is a fractured nation, searching for its soul.

But not all is lost, I see that the millenials today are looking at the nation with a completely different lense. Their voices are becoming louder, and they are seeking sociopolitical legitimacy towards building their "TANAH TUMPAH DARAHKU" (The Land Where My Blood Spilled) the way the Founding Fathers of this Nation wanted.

With so much taint, I do not think we have anything to offer to either Singapore or Brunei, to be part of a propounded notion called Greater Malaysia.

And before we can even offer an olive branch to others, we have a lot of soul searching to do, to correct our mistakes, before we can make our Nation Great again.

Like the caption above we all MUST see ourselves as MALAYSIANS First, no colour or creed should be reflected in front of the JALUR GEMILANG (Malaysian Flag)

SELAMAT(kan) HARI MALAYSIA

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2021/09/16/lets-reboot-malaysia-and-invite-brunei-singapore-again/?fbclid=IwAR2Nx4Qz5oKOpQEgS2MRlVP6B-bqknet72b11yuP-do2_Pq7lS9QlN82qEw

Ravi Varmman, Subang Jaya, 022216092021