Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Racism in my life

My mother was born in malaysia and every once in a while in the school holidays, we go back to malaysia to visit some of her relatives. Racism is not so evident in Singapore as the government's move of racial harmony has worked well. Whereas in malaysia, racism is even supported by the government there. The government give priority to malays in everything in Malaysia. In order for a chinese to get into a top university in Malaysia, they have to be the cream of the crop whereas malays can just stride in without any good grades at all. Although the government is clearly giving alot of priority to the malays, they still complain that the chinese are still having the edge over them and the government helps them more. This kind of racism will bring malaysia down as malaysia will not be able to cultivate smart people to help malaysia and her economy. If racism like this continues, Malaysia will not be able to progress much. Even in the government, racism is evident. In some political parties, they only allow malays to join in to their parties and not allow any of the chinese take any cabinet position.
All in all I think the government should act like singapore and give equality to all races.

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