Yes, he is my father. I guess majority (if not all) young Malaysians of these days, regard him, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad as Our Father. He is the one who provides us with a sense of belonging, identity, spirit to come out tall and proud as being a Malaysian, though all of his efforts didn't get to the extent of creating Bangsa Malaysia.Not yet.
Last Saturday, he wrote again at his famous blog http://www.chedet.com/ an article entitled, The Racist Card. He was explaining about the accusations that he is playing the racist card when he urged the Malays to buck up and perform through acquiring knowledge and skills, so that they deserve to be called "Tuan". A thousand applause for my father!
In a way, I agree with him about the creating of Bangsa Malaysia.One should not call for a common identity as bangsa Malaysia to be created if he or she still does not master the essence of creating a bangsa, which is the language and the culture.There are still many of us, the people of Malaysia, who doesn't really master Bahasa Malaysia.They speak with dialects, which somehow tarnish the beauty of the language.And they do not picture as a Bangsa Malaysia when speaking like that!
They keep on calling for vernacular schools to be set up, while the government are spending millions of ringgit to build Sekolah Kebangsaan, which in a way is to foster the sense of being a Bangsa Malaysia since primary school days.Yet they keep on accusing the government of being racist in favour of the indigenious people.
They should be proud and grateful of being born and live in Malaysia because the government had never so far implimented any policies which adversely affect their culture and heritage, though still pushing of a common identity of Bangsa Malaysia.Sign boards are multi language, TV programmes are multi language, multi cultural and even to the extent of importing dramas from the respective countries of their ancestors, just to fulfill them "cultural needs".
If we look back in history, the struggle of the French , Italiano, German and even the American in creating their own bangsa, they are using "real politics", which include the systematic eradication of foreign race in order to make the indigenous the "Master of the Land".
(I will continue this post later)
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ReplyDelete“Saya menentang prejudis terhadap bahasa Melayu ini. Saya hampa kerana pemimpin negara sendiri yang tidak percaya kepada kemampuan bahasa kebangsaan.” -Dato Usman Awang
ReplyDelete"Semangat mendaulatkan bahasa Melayu harus dihidupkan dan tiada tiada maknanya sekiranya ia hanya termaktub dalam satu perenggan dalam Perlembagaan negara." -DYTM Raja Dr Nazrin Shah
“...membentuk sebuah negara yang bersatu padu serta menyanjung masa hadapan yang dikongsi bersama. Bangsa itu mestilah sejahtera, berintegrasi wilayah-wilayah dan kelompok-kelompoknya. Menikmati kehidupan bersama yang sepenuhnya berasaskan persamaan hak dan keadilan, membentuk sebuah Bangsa Malaysia dengan rasa taat setia dan pengabdian yang tidak berbelah bagi terhadap bangsa tersebut.” -Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
"Kita juga telah berjaya memberikan satu keperibadian yang sama kepada negara dengan menjadikan bahasa Malaysia sebagai bahasa kebangsaan dan bahasa rasmi yang tunggal di negara ini dan usaha-usaha masih lagi dicari bagi menjadikan bahasa itu sebagai bahasa kebangsaan dengan erti kata yang sebenarnya." - Tun Abdul Razak
“Jika orang Melayu hendak menjadi bangsa yang besar, orang Melayu mesti mempelajari dan memelihara secermat-cermatnya bahasa Melayu, di samping menerima serta menambah pengetahuan baharu.” - Munsyi Abdullah
“Peradaban dan tamadun sesuatu bangsa dibina dengan bahasanya sendiri, baik dalam bentuk prosa ataupun dalam bentuk kreatif kerana bahasa menjadi jiwa sesuatu bangsa. Keindahan estetika sebagai emosi kepada jiwa itu ialah karya kreatif”. - SN S. Othman Kelantan
Tiada akan besar bangsa yang tiada kasihkan bahasanya. - Muhammad Salleh
KEMERDEKAAN yang sudah dicapai itu seperti sebuah gelas kosong lalu tiap-tiap golongan itu mahu mengisi gelas itu dengan minuman yang disukainya.- Abdullah Hussain
Bangsa itu diperibadikan bahasanya.- Muhammad Salleh