tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post112529753597723960..comments2024-03-21T20:10:28.943+08:00Comments on EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA: “Malaysia's Races Live Peacefully -- But Separately”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1136234862069575012006-01-03T04:47:00.000+08:002006-01-03T04:47:00.000+08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1136233124374295562006-01-03T04:18:00.000+08:002006-01-03T04:18:00.000+08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1136233048333636782006-01-03T04:17:00.000+08:002006-01-03T04:17:00.000+08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1136232930727321902006-01-03T04:15:00.000+08:002006-01-03T04:15:00.000+08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1126136551448972852005-09-08T07:42:00.000+08:002005-09-08T07:42:00.000+08:00Umno, which effectively runs the government, is ri...Umno, which effectively runs the government, is riddled with corruption and croynism. <BR/><BR/>Members crave for the award of lucrative government contracts given out under the pretext of the NEP. But the party is filled with bureaucrats with no management skills and no productive economic skills. <BR/><BR/>In a freely competitive market, they would be in the lower rungs of the public sector or would have lost their jobs altogether. To maintain their way of life, they have to ensure that the NEP is continued at all costs. <BR/><BR/>A large segment of the malays are still poor after 35 years of the NEP and on top of this the income disparity between the rich and the poor has widened. Clearly, the NEP as a method of equalising economic disparity has failed. <BR/><BR/>The benefits of the NEP to the poor malay is a pittance compared to the benefits to the rich and well-connected malay. It is in reality a tool and facade for the rich and elite malays - who are in the minority - to continue their extravagant way of life at the expense of the rest of the country. <BR/><BR/>The cost of the NEP so far include unemployable graduates who are mostly malay, increased racial polarisation, declining education standards, brain drain, bailouts of well-connected companies, an inefficient and incompetent public service, a government which makes decisions first and studies the impact later - just about everything that is wrong in this country!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1125360192724282472005-08-30T08:03:00.000+08:002005-08-30T08:03:00.000+08:00I think it has everything to do with the home FIRS...I think it has everything to do with the home FIRST before the education system. The attitude that our parents encourages us to grow, our perspective on race is all based on our parent's behaviour. <BR/><BR/>Chances are if your parents never had friends from another race, you won't see the point in doing so.<BR/><BR/>I was lucky. My dad visited his Malay and Indian friends ALL the time. And we're Chinese.<BR/><BR/>I went to a national school here in PJ and my best friends were Indians and Malays. I learnt to write in Malay first before I had even learnt to speak/write fluent English. In secondary school, my best buddy was a Malay girl. When I was in college, I hung around a Maldivian, and Malay lady (she was the oldest in our class) most of the time. <BR/><BR/>I was never stuck to just Chinese because lets face the facts, we are Malaysians first before anything else - or at least I think so.<BR/><BR/>If anything, we should re-educate our would-be daddies and mummies out there that kids are often follow in their parent's footsteps - like it or not. Check out some socialization theories (on the self). :)Mabelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14094748844203074427noreply@blogger.com