Monday, August 31, 2009

1 Understanding, 1 Respect

Happy Merdeka.
The most appearance words in all media today had no doubt was only one word, "1 MALAYSIA."
Every ad interpreted their own way about 1 Malaysia and as previous years, the whole papers filled with beautiful photos and praises of how unite we are and how prosperous what Malaysia is.
I do not believe these for so many years.
However, after 52 years of living together, most of the Malaysian in recent years had somehow "self-regulate" to be more understandings and tolerate each other. We mixed together more often than before, less suspicion, more respect of the different cultures, religious and living style.
Malays remain Malays, Chinese remain Chinese, Indian remain Indian, Muslims remain Muslims, Christian remain Christian, Buddhism remain Buddhism, Hindu remain Hindu.
We start to understand that no conflict of each other to remain as what they are, to remain their beliefs as what they are. Why we want to change it? Why we want to feel threaten like the existence of one race (religion) will make another one lose their identity?
We have no problems to remain owns identity but stay united and patriot to our beloved country with "1 Understandings, 1 Respect" between different races.
However, small group of BN/UMNO elites seem do not like to see this happen. In contradict with what they always said in the speeches, they start to bring up the old and irresponsible tactics like race and religious issues when they felt that they have lost supports among their own community.
Musa Hitam, the veteran UMNO and ex-DPM said in the interview yesterday, "UMNO could not catch up the change of Malay community. They take for granted and thinking of they could continue to be the ruling government, they abuse power, they ignore what the People think, etc...They did not realised that most of the Malays had change and become more confidence to compete with others."
Exactly, I always believe that ones will be dropped out if he could not catch up the change.
The day before this Merdeka Day, the Liberal Democratic Party, that had governed Japan for about 54 years, lost to Democratic Party of Japan in the recent General Election with the similar reasons.
In this Merdeka Day, we wish that BN/UMNO in future do not ruin all these efforts that the people had work together building for our next generation, just because they want to remain powers.
Please think of other ways to regain supports.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

1 Malaysia without equality, justice and liberty for all is just pure slogan for foreigners. You know umno-BN always come out with big idea n political slogan to bluff western media , it is just another fine example. haha...