Dasar Ekonomi Baru
Personally, if our Prime Minister wants to change the New Economic Policy (NEP), I wouldn’t mind if its still there just that the government should change the policy to cater to the poor and needy instead of covering all Malays. Obviously the rich Malays don’t need any discounts for housing and preferential treatment to enter universities as they can send thier kids overseas for a much better education. They already have all the money, why do they still need more discounts on housing while the poor Malays still can’t even afford to buy a small low cost house?
The NEP should only apply to the group of Malays that earn below a certain amount. This will assure that no one can abuse the NEP for their own benefit (if the rumours are true) and everyone will be happy. The rich ones don’t need it as I’m sure their paychecks is proof that they have arrived at the corridors of success. The Chinese and Indians agreed to give the Malays privileges in order to get our citizenship 50 years ago, hence, as a Malaysian Chinese I should honour that agreement although it fundamentally goes against several human rights laws.
If the government implemented these changes mentioned above, Malaysia would be a better place and everyone will be happy. 
1. UMNOOO caters only for their ball carriers, and not only are the Chinese and Indians being crippled from succeeding in life, the same can be said about MAJORITY of Malays in M’sia. They are just too blind to see the political tricks being played out here, whereby, once every 4-5 years, UMNOOO turns up reminding them of May 13th 1969, and in anger of what happened 30 YEARS AGO, they vote for UMNOOO. But there is hope, and it is in the form of Pakatan Rakyat/ Parti keAdilan. In recent years, they’ve seen more support from the Malays and it will be a matter of time before we see UMNOOO start pulling off new tricks( in fact, it had already begun).
2. “The Chinese and Indians agreed to give the Malays privileges in order to get our citizenship 50 years ago, hence, as a Malaysian Chinese I should honour that agreement although it fundamentally goes against several human rights laws.”
I presume you are talking about the ’social contract’. Well, let me ask you something, have you signed, touched or better still, even SEEN such a contract before? Exactly, there is NO such thing as a social contract . 50 years ago, the Chinese and the Indians were probably given a choice, stay and don’t get in the way of the ‘bumiputras’, or leave. They probably just shook their heads in agreement because the prospects of living in a newly formed country seemed too good to be turned down, and also thinking of their overcrowded homelands (China and India) might have scared them as well.
Logically speaking, if at that time, UMNOOO had shown the ‘contract’ in black and white, with clear descriptions of all the discrimination they will face in this new country, don’t you think all the Indians and Chinese at tht time would have just packed up and sailed off to either Europe or Australia?
We are already into like what, the 5th,6th generation of Chinese and Indians in this country? Meaning that most of us were born and bred here, so that should automatically make us the sons(and daughters) of the land (bumiputra)?
3. For M’sia to prosper, its not only about getting our basic human rights back, or even a new and just economic plan. Malaysians have to first start changing their attitudes and their way of living now if they want to truly unite as a one-raced Malaysian society. Although we are reaping the benefits from our multicultural society by luring curious tourists here, it is easy to forget that all this difference in culture and languages are the prime reasons to such a DIS-united community we have here. They day Malaysians will stop referring themselves as malaysian Chinese/ malaysian Indians/ malays, and accept that we are Malaysians, also speak only in BM and English (means forgoing Tamil, Mandarin, etc..) that will be the day we can start progressing.
c3po
24 May 2009 at 4:28 am
Well what I suggested above is just a quick solution. Obviously the long term solution would be what you’ve suggested above and I agree to every word you said up there.
Qi-Guang
24 May 2009 at 5:50 pm