Low Chinese participation in the civil service? Get them to join the army, suggests UMNO Youth chief
STATING that the campaign to encourage the enrolment of Malaysians in public service should not be limited to the Chinese community alone, UMNO Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh (main image, inset) further mooted the idea that focus should be accorded to wooing their participation in the military corps.
While calling on the campaign to be extended to all races in the country, the Merlimau state assemblyman hinted that there are vacancies in the army that can be filled up by the Chinese and Indian Malaysians.
While Akmal’s opinion is welcomed, one wonders if the Russia-trained medical practitioner is testing the patriotism of non-Malays considering that joining the army would most probably be the last job option for risk-adverse Chinese job candidates.
At a glance, it can be safely assumed that most Chinese candidate in the army would certainly be eyeing the rank of an officer – at minimum – a position that can only be filled if the individual holds the academic qualification of a graduate.
“First of all, it should not be that only the Chinese are encouraged to join the civil service but the Indians and other races as well, especially in the military field where there is low participation among non-Bumiputera,” Akmal was cited as saying by Malay language news portal MalaysiaGazette.
The Melaka state Rural Development, Agriculture and Food Security executive councillor was commenting on a revelation by Chan Ming Kai who is the political secretary to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim over the extremely low number of Chinese in the civil service as constituting a flaw in the government.
Chan Ming Kai (inset)
As such, Chan who was the former Alor Setar MP encouraged more Chinese to join the civil service considering that only 40% of the 15,000 Chinese applicants were eligible for interviews last year. Currently, the Chinese make up 22.6% of the country’s population but only 6.62% of Chinese Malaysians are civil servants.
Sin Chew Daily further quoted Chan who attended a campaign to encourage more Chinese to join the civil service at the Melaka Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Sunday (March 3) night as saying that many Chinese candidates were unsuccessful in their applications given they were incapable of expressing themselves despite possessing academic qualifications.
Melaka was the first stop for the campaign tour jointly organised by the Prime Minister’s political secretary office, Melaka Chinese Assembly Hall, Melaka Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Melaka Chinese Education Progressive Association, a strategy study committee under Hua Zong, Tindak Komuniti Inklusif Melaka and Media Chinese International Ltd. – March 6, 2024
As such, Chan who was the former Alor Setar MP encouraged more Chinese to join the civil service considering that only 40% of the 15,000 Chinese applicants were eligible for interviews last year. Currently, the Chinese make up 22.6% of the country’s population but only 6.62% of Chinese Malaysians are civil servants.
Sin Chew Daily further quoted Chan who attended a campaign to encourage more Chinese to join the civil service at the Melaka Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Sunday (March 3) night as saying that many Chinese candidates were unsuccessful in their applications given they were incapable of expressing themselves despite possessing academic qualifications.
Melaka was the first stop for the campaign tour jointly organised by the Prime Minister’s political secretary office, Melaka Chinese Assembly Hall, Melaka Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Melaka Chinese Education Progressive Association, a strategy study committee under Hua Zong, Tindak Komuniti Inklusif Melaka and Media Chinese International Ltd. – March 6, 2024
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kt comments:
I've oft given the answer to the bullshit that Chinese aren't keen to join the civil service and/or armed forces, to wit, the "ex"clusive NEP policy which in effect keeps the 'nons' out. Here are a couple of my past posts for your perusal:
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Chinese Policemen posted 04 March 2013 (11 years ago) in a response to an attempted racist sarcasm by Kadir Yassin (mouthpiece of KKKK) very similar to the current one by UMNO Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh, as follows:
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Chinese Policemen
As you may be aware, I have recently added A Kadir Jasin's blog (The Scribe) to my blogroll to widen the availability of political views. Pak Kadir held various high level management posts in the UMNO controlled news media.
I had indirectly crossed swords with him over at the Centre for Policy Initiatives (CPI) website in March 2010 when it carried his article I wish to remain a Malay. Then I decided to answer him with my I wish to remain a Malaysian wakakaka.
There's no denying he's a pro UMNO blogger, and I respect his political preference.
But when I read his latest post titled Sabah Incursion: Hang the traitors, I was terribly disappointed by Pak Kadir's tone in the opening paragraphs of his blog post, which stated:
As has always been the case, when we send our policemen and soldiers into battle and are killed or injured, the chances are they are Melayus and Bumiputeras.
Perhaps there is wisdom in getting more Chinese and Indians to join the armed forces so that they too can die for one Malaysia.
I would like to draw your and especially his attention to the huge sacrifices Chinese Malaysians have made for their country while serving in the Royal Malaysian Police Force.
But before I come to that, it may be worthwhile to ask ourselves why in the recent tragedy in the Lahad Datu and Semporna areas in eastern Sabah, there has been no Chinese police death.
Not that I wish for Chinese death or for that matter, any Malaysian deaths, but we, especially Pak Kadir, must be honest and ask ourselves why the casualties have been confined to the Malay policemen.
But then Pak Kadir answered that himself when he suggested that “Perhaps there is wisdom in getting more Chinese and Indians to join the armed forces so that they too can die for one Malaysia” but in a regretful tone that sounds caustic, unfair and indeed morbid.
Alright then, who’s to be blamed for the Malays currently bearing all the greatest sacrifice to their nation?
Surely not the Chinese for back then in 'less divisive' days we depended heavily (though not solely) on mainly Chinese policemen (and women) in the Special Branch to win our war against the insurrection of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM).
Then the head of the SB Division (a two-star bloke) was always a Chinese but which practice ended together with the end of the Malaysian Emergency (probably because the Chinese were no longer required after the defeat of the MCP).
Yes, the sad fact today is that both the Police and Armed Forces (and the Malaysian Civil Services) have not been earnest or sincere in recruiting non-Malays as they used to do in the earlier 'less divisive' days. We sense we the Chinese and Indian Malaysians (other than a token few for window dressing) aren't welcomed in these institutions.
But to answer Pak Kadir's seeming jeer, we should remember and I would encourage him to be decent and acknowledge his recognition of our Chinese Police heroes of yesteryears, stalwarts such as:
Two other Special Branch police officers who are still alive today were awarded the Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (SP), namely SP Paul Kiong and DSP Sia Boon Chee.
Without exaggeration, I would consider these two officers’ contributions (presumably still under secret classification) as pivotal to the defeat of the communist terrorist movement in Peninsula Malaysia.
Thus 5 Chinese police officers were awarded the nation's highest gallantry award, the Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (SP), with two posthumously. I hope Pak Kadir takes note of this.
Then there were Chinese in the Armed Forces who showed their loyalty to their nation by making the ultimate sacrifices, TUDM officers like the late Lt Choo Yoke Boo and the late Lt Chang Tatt Min who were both awarded the Panglima (or Pingat) Gagah Berani (PGB) posthumously. It's said that the PGB is next in gallantry honours to the SP.
One Ranger officer, 2nd Lt David Fu Chee Ming who I believe is still alive today, was also awarded the PGB.
2nd Lt David Fu was the Platoon Commander of 8th Platoon of C Company, 4th Battalion Royal Rangers who was tasked and placed in the Tanah Hitam area of Perak to track and destroy the enemy in his sector of operation. This was the citation for his award of the Panglima Gagah Berani (PGB):
On the 27th August 1970, his platoon of 24 men made contact with a group of about 70 enemy combatants. The enemy unknowingly had entered his sector. Thus started a heavy and intensive battle lasting 7 hours. Under his unwavering leadership, the men fought on, successfully killed 4 of the enemy. His patrol did not suffer any casualties.
For his outstanding gallantry and bravery in the finest traditions of the Ranger Corps he was bestowed with the Pingat Gagah Berani, by the King.
He left after exemplary service as a Captain.
Then there was Captain Mohana Chandran al Velayuthan, like 2nd Lt David Fu also of 4th Battalion Royal Rangers.
Captain Chandran was posthumously awarded the Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (SP) on 3 June 1971.
His citation for the SP read:
Leading a unit of ten men of the 4th Battalion Royal Rangers on a reconnaissance mission in the vicinity of the Ulu Kinta forest (Perak), he happened upon a group of CT numbering approximately 40 men. This occurred on the tenth day of their mission and 4 hours after they had located the first enemy tracks.
Coming under murderous fire after detection by an enemy sentry Captain Chandran rallied his squad and advanced on the enemy. The encounter with the well-entrenched enemy led to the death of Captain Chandran at the age of 27.
Alas, Pak Kadir has not been unlike Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi, who on 09 Nov 2010, as to be expected for the archetypical UMNO ‘patriots’, stated in response to a question in Parliament that the low number of Chinese and Indian recruits in the military could be due to the Chinese and Indians [being] 'not patriotic enough'.
Zahid Hamidi, once a very close ally of Anwar Ibrahim and the man who accused Dr Mahathir of corruption and cronyism in an alleged impatient move by the Anwar faction in UMNO to nudge then-PM Dr M out for Anwar’s final ascendancy to the PM’s post, abandoned his allegiance to Anwar after the former DPM was ejected from UMNO, to pay loyalty to Dr Mahathir.
He is hardly an appropriate person to talk about patriotism or loyalty.
In fact, given his disloyalty to initially his (then) party president Dr Mahathir and then his mentor and 'friend' Anwar Ibrahim, he should be the last person in UMNO to ever moralise about loyalty.
I wonder where were these pro UMNO and UMNO Malay 'patriots', people like Pak Kadir and Zahid Hamidi, when the above Chinese Malaysians made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, Malaysia?
As Aldous Huxley informed us: "One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
Note: My letter to Malaysiakini on same topic though more brief has been published less than an hour ago, as Chinese M'sians, too, have died for one Malaysia
There's no denying he's a pro UMNO blogger, and I respect his political preference.
But when I read his latest post titled Sabah Incursion: Hang the traitors, I was terribly disappointed by Pak Kadir's tone in the opening paragraphs of his blog post, which stated:
As has always been the case, when we send our policemen and soldiers into battle and are killed or injured, the chances are they are Melayus and Bumiputeras.
Perhaps there is wisdom in getting more Chinese and Indians to join the armed forces so that they too can die for one Malaysia.
I would like to draw your and especially his attention to the huge sacrifices Chinese Malaysians have made for their country while serving in the Royal Malaysian Police Force.
But before I come to that, it may be worthwhile to ask ourselves why in the recent tragedy in the Lahad Datu and Semporna areas in eastern Sabah, there has been no Chinese police death.
Not that I wish for Chinese death or for that matter, any Malaysian deaths, but we, especially Pak Kadir, must be honest and ask ourselves why the casualties have been confined to the Malay policemen.
But then Pak Kadir answered that himself when he suggested that “Perhaps there is wisdom in getting more Chinese and Indians to join the armed forces so that they too can die for one Malaysia” but in a regretful tone that sounds caustic, unfair and indeed morbid.
Alright then, who’s to be blamed for the Malays currently bearing all the greatest sacrifice to their nation?
Surely not the Chinese for back then in 'less divisive' days we depended heavily (though not solely) on mainly Chinese policemen (and women) in the Special Branch to win our war against the insurrection of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM).
Then the head of the SB Division (a two-star bloke) was always a Chinese but which practice ended together with the end of the Malaysian Emergency (probably because the Chinese were no longer required after the defeat of the MCP).
Yes, the sad fact today is that both the Police and Armed Forces (and the Malaysian Civil Services) have not been earnest or sincere in recruiting non-Malays as they used to do in the earlier 'less divisive' days. We sense we the Chinese and Indian Malaysians (other than a token few for window dressing) aren't welcomed in these institutions.
But to answer Pak Kadir's seeming jeer, we should remember and I would encourage him to be decent and acknowledge his recognition of our Chinese Police heroes of yesteryears, stalwarts such as:
- Yeoh Chew Bik (killed by CT at Sebarang Perai)
- Koh Ah Cheng (killed by CT at Bukit Kepong police Station)
Ironically the communist assailants were led by a Malay Communist, Muhammad Indera - not unlike today's Muslim-Filipino Malay assailants of our 8 policemen
- Loh Ah Chu (killed by CT at Bukit Berapit, Perak)
- Chan Eng Teck (killed by CT at Bukit Berapit, Perak)
- Ang Lock Say (killed by CT at Bukit Berapit, Perak)
- Yeap Sean Hua (killed on duty while apprehending a criminal at Setapak; another policeman Fong Thean Kit who was off duty but heard the shot gave chase and apprehended the killer)
Important note: Both Yeap (posthumously) and Fong were awarded Malaysia’s highest gallantry award, the Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (SP)
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| SP - awarded for act of extreme bravery and valor |
- Chin Chin Kooi (Special Branch Chief Inspector who served in the Police Force for 21 years - shot at point blank range and killed by unknown slayers, probably CT; before he died he managed to shoot back)
Important note: Chin was posthumously awarded the Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (SP)
- Lee Han Cheong (a Sergeant and PFF patrol leader was killed by CT near Bidok)
- DCP Tan Sri Khoo Chong Kong (killed by communist subversive in Perak)
Two other Special Branch police officers who are still alive today were awarded the Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (SP), namely SP Paul Kiong and DSP Sia Boon Chee.
Without exaggeration, I would consider these two officers’ contributions (presumably still under secret classification) as pivotal to the defeat of the communist terrorist movement in Peninsula Malaysia.
Thus 5 Chinese police officers were awarded the nation's highest gallantry award, the Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (SP), with two posthumously. I hope Pak Kadir takes note of this.
Then there were Chinese in the Armed Forces who showed their loyalty to their nation by making the ultimate sacrifices, TUDM officers like the late Lt Choo Yoke Boo and the late Lt Chang Tatt Min who were both awarded the Panglima (or Pingat) Gagah Berani (PGB) posthumously. It's said that the PGB is next in gallantry honours to the SP.
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| PGB - awarded for act of extreme bravery and valor |
One Ranger officer, 2nd Lt David Fu Chee Ming who I believe is still alive today, was also awarded the PGB.
2nd Lt David Fu was the Platoon Commander of 8th Platoon of C Company, 4th Battalion Royal Rangers who was tasked and placed in the Tanah Hitam area of Perak to track and destroy the enemy in his sector of operation. This was the citation for his award of the Panglima Gagah Berani (PGB):
On the 27th August 1970, his platoon of 24 men made contact with a group of about 70 enemy combatants. The enemy unknowingly had entered his sector. Thus started a heavy and intensive battle lasting 7 hours. Under his unwavering leadership, the men fought on, successfully killed 4 of the enemy. His patrol did not suffer any casualties.
For his outstanding gallantry and bravery in the finest traditions of the Ranger Corps he was bestowed with the Pingat Gagah Berani, by the King.
He left after exemplary service as a Captain.
Then there was Captain Mohana Chandran al Velayuthan, like 2nd Lt David Fu also of 4th Battalion Royal Rangers.
Captain Chandran was posthumously awarded the Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (SP) on 3 June 1971.
His citation for the SP read:
Leading a unit of ten men of the 4th Battalion Royal Rangers on a reconnaissance mission in the vicinity of the Ulu Kinta forest (Perak), he happened upon a group of CT numbering approximately 40 men. This occurred on the tenth day of their mission and 4 hours after they had located the first enemy tracks.
Coming under murderous fire after detection by an enemy sentry Captain Chandran rallied his squad and advanced on the enemy. The encounter with the well-entrenched enemy led to the death of Captain Chandran at the age of 27.
Alas, Pak Kadir has not been unlike Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi, who on 09 Nov 2010, as to be expected for the archetypical UMNO ‘patriots’, stated in response to a question in Parliament that the low number of Chinese and Indian recruits in the military could be due to the Chinese and Indians [being] 'not patriotic enough'.
Zahid Hamidi, once a very close ally of Anwar Ibrahim and the man who accused Dr Mahathir of corruption and cronyism in an alleged impatient move by the Anwar faction in UMNO to nudge then-PM Dr M out for Anwar’s final ascendancy to the PM’s post, abandoned his allegiance to Anwar after the former DPM was ejected from UMNO, to pay loyalty to Dr Mahathir.
He is hardly an appropriate person to talk about patriotism or loyalty.
In fact, given his disloyalty to initially his (then) party president Dr Mahathir and then his mentor and 'friend' Anwar Ibrahim, he should be the last person in UMNO to ever moralise about loyalty.
I wonder where were these pro UMNO and UMNO Malay 'patriots', people like Pak Kadir and Zahid Hamidi, when the above Chinese Malaysians made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, Malaysia?
As Aldous Huxley informed us: "One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
Note: My letter to Malaysiakini on same topic though more brief has been published less than an hour ago, as Chinese M'sians, too, have died for one Malaysia
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... and as for the kerbau on Chinese being reluctant to join the Civil Service, see follows:
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One myth about Chinese Malaysians
I was discussing the NEP (via comments) with some visitors at RPK's Malaysia-Today.
But let's leave the NEP aside for another day. In this post I just want to comment on an oft-repeated MYTH about Chinese not wanting to join the Malaysian Civil Services or Police Force or Armed Forces. And mind you, I am not referring to appointments for ranking commissioned officers in the 3 services but positions for ordinary admin clerk, our village mata-mata and non-commissioned soldiers.
This long tall tale of Chinese avoiding the civil and armed services because of poor pay (in the non-officer sections) is the BIGGEST myth or bullshit in Malaysia, perpetuated for obvious reasons.
Another long tall tale would be that the Chinese are not patriotic enough to join the military, as claimed by Ahmad Zahid when he was Defence Minister and asked in parliament on why there were too few non-Malays in his defence force.
When our policemen were killed by Filipino bandits in Sabah, Pak Kadir Jasin, an UMNO uber mediaman alluded in his quite erudite old world style of polite English but rather slyly (and not subtly) that the Chinese should join the police force, saying:
As has always been the case, when we send our policemen and soldiers into battle and are killed or injured, the chances are they are Melayus and Bumiputeras.
Perhaps there is wisdom in getting more Chinese and Indians to join the armed forces so that they too can die for one Malaysia.
The latter, the Civil Service being an alien concept to Chinese culture, is 101% pure grade bullshit because the Chinese have in their several thousands of years of civilisation enjoyed (or suffered) from the Chinese Civil Service. In fact the Chinese invented the Civil Service.
This is what Wikipedia has to say:
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| Chinese Malaysians |
But let's leave the NEP aside for another day. In this post I just want to comment on an oft-repeated MYTH about Chinese not wanting to join the Malaysian Civil Services or Police Force or Armed Forces. And mind you, I am not referring to appointments for ranking commissioned officers in the 3 services but positions for ordinary admin clerk, our village mata-mata and non-commissioned soldiers.
This long tall tale of Chinese avoiding the civil and armed services because of poor pay (in the non-officer sections) is the BIGGEST myth or bullshit in Malaysia, perpetuated for obvious reasons.
Another long tall tale would be that the Chinese are not patriotic enough to join the military, as claimed by Ahmad Zahid when he was Defence Minister and asked in parliament on why there were too few non-Malays in his defence force.
When our policemen were killed by Filipino bandits in Sabah, Pak Kadir Jasin, an UMNO uber mediaman alluded in his quite erudite old world style of polite English but rather slyly (and not subtly) that the Chinese should join the police force, saying:
As has always been the case, when we send our policemen and soldiers into battle and are killed or injured, the chances are they are Melayus and Bumiputeras.
Perhaps there is wisdom in getting more Chinese and Indians to join the armed forces so that they too can die for one Malaysia.
That was in 2013. Sadly, it seems Pak Kadir had forgotten my reply to his article published by the Centre for Policy Initiatives (CPI) titled I wish to remain a M’sian – KTemoc replies Kadir Jasin just 3 years previously, in March 2010.
Then I mentioned about non-Malays, specifically my uncles and their Chinese and Indian friends, serving in the Malaysian Armed Forces fighting against the communist insurgents during the Emergency.
Then I mentioned about non-Malays, specifically my uncles and their Chinese and Indian friends, serving in the Malaysian Armed Forces fighting against the communist insurgents during the Emergency.
Nonetheless I posted another article titled Chinese policemen to show (a) firstly, Pak Kadir Jasin that he was so very wrong in his sly insult to Chinese on their purported 'reluctance' to join the Malaysian police and military to serve the nation, and (b) secondly, the blatant but perennial lie of this ethnic-driven myth.
In that post I listed several Chinese policemen who gave their lives in the course of their service to our nation. Please read my post to know how many Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (SP), the nation's highest award for valour, and Pingat Gagah Berani (PGB) were bestowed by the Agong to Chinese service personnel.
In that post I listed several Chinese policemen who gave their lives in the course of their service to our nation. Please read my post to know how many Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (SP), the nation's highest award for valour, and Pingat Gagah Berani (PGB) were bestowed by the Agong to Chinese service personnel.
I also modified my blog post into a letter to Malaysiakini for wider readership because it's damn bloody important to debunk the naughty but cheap racial and untrue insinuations.
On the Civil Service, as mentioned above, there has been a deliberate contrived myth, yes a MYTH, that the Chinese shun the Civil Service because they prefer the lucrativeness of private business rather than the staid salary of the public service, and that the Civil Service is an alien concept of employment to Chinese culture.
On the Civil Service, as mentioned above, there has been a deliberate contrived myth, yes a MYTH, that the Chinese shun the Civil Service because they prefer the lucrativeness of private business rather than the staid salary of the public service, and that the Civil Service is an alien concept of employment to Chinese culture.
The latter, the Civil Service being an alien concept to Chinese culture, is 101% pure grade bullshit because the Chinese have in their several thousands of years of civilisation enjoyed (or suffered) from the Chinese Civil Service. In fact the Chinese invented the Civil Service.
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sitting Imperial Exams to enter Imperial Civil Service - Sui Dynasty |
This is what Wikipedia has to say:
The origin of the modern meritocratic civil service can be traced back to Imperial examinations founded in Imperial China. The Imperial exam based on merit was designed to select the best administrative officials for the state's bureaucracy. This system had a huge influence on both society and culture in Imperial China and was directly responsible for the creation of a class of scholar-bureacrats irrespective of their family pedigree.
Note the mention of 'meritocratic civil service' and the selection of 'the best administrative officials for the state's bureaucracy'!
Emperor Wu of Han started an early form of the imperial examinations, transitioning from inheritance and patronage to merit, in which local officials would select candidates to take part in an examination of the Confucian classics. The system reached its apogee during the Song dynasty.
The Chinese civil-service system gave the Chinese empire stability for more than 2,000 years and provided one of the major outlets for social mobility in Chinese society.
The Chinese civil-service system gave the Chinese empire stability for more than 2,000 years and provided one of the major outlets for social mobility in Chinese society.
The modern examination system for selecting civil service staff also indirectly evolved from the imperial one. This system was admired and then borrowed by European countries from the 16th century onward, and is now the model for most countries around the world.
So the myth about Chinese viewing the Civil Service as alien to their culture or career path is what it is, a myth that has been repetitively used by some people to explain why there are too few Chinese Malaysians in the Malaysian Civil Service, when of course the real reason is they were obstructed from joining or just not welcomed.
Condemned for not joining - Constrained from joining!
If we were to look at our historical records of the 50, 60 and 70's we will find many Chinese in the Civil Service, police and military. My own family has several members in the police force and armed forces (army and air force). One of my granduncles, who was in the SB, was assassinated by communist terrorists during the Emergency. Two of my uncle's close (Chinese) friends were also killed by the CTs.
But due to the political poisoning of Malay minds for several decades, Chinese Malaysians are still viewed by quite a few Malays with suspicion today.
In the old days, the Malays saw them as potential or closeted communists - one day my uncle who was in the military was off duty (in civilian clothing) and in a bus in Alor Setar when he was accused by a very loud old Malay man of being a Chinese communist, wakakaka. The orang tua was playing 'hero' to the bus passengers who except for my uncle, his Indian aneh and the equally old bus driver, were all Malays.
Today they are Chinese chauvinist pigs - alas, Chinese Christians are still too few to be considered as representative of the Chinese community, so Chinese chauvinist pigs will have to do for the time being, wakakaka.
Chinese are variously anti-monarch (thus biadap to Malay royalty) or pro-monarch (accused of supporting the Johor Crown Prince against Najib) or neutral-towards-monarch (tidakapathy towards Malay culture). They just f* can't win, wakakaka.
If we were to look at our historical records of the 50, 60 and 70's we will find many Chinese in the Civil Service, police and military. My own family has several members in the police force and armed forces (army and air force). One of my granduncles, who was in the SB, was assassinated by communist terrorists during the Emergency. Two of my uncle's close (Chinese) friends were also killed by the CTs.
But due to the political poisoning of Malay minds for several decades, Chinese Malaysians are still viewed by quite a few Malays with suspicion today.
In the old days, the Malays saw them as potential or closeted communists - one day my uncle who was in the military was off duty (in civilian clothing) and in a bus in Alor Setar when he was accused by a very loud old Malay man of being a Chinese communist, wakakaka. The orang tua was playing 'hero' to the bus passengers who except for my uncle, his Indian aneh and the equally old bus driver, were all Malays.
Today they are Chinese chauvinist pigs - alas, Chinese Christians are still too few to be considered as representative of the Chinese community, so Chinese chauvinist pigs will have to do for the time being, wakakaka.
Chinese are variously anti-monarch (thus biadap to Malay royalty) or pro-monarch (accused of supporting the Johor Crown Prince against Najib) or neutral-towards-monarch (tidakapathy towards Malay culture). They just f* can't win, wakakaka.
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kt notes: As for the last paragraph above, that of Chinese being perceived as anti-monarch (thus biadab to Malay royalty), yesterday in my post titled 'Does past spat between Tun M and the Malay rulers have bearing in today’s royalty relations?' I wrote as an intro to its publishing in the FB the following:
This one paragraph in the note explains it very well: “One might have expected that since the rulers and the Agung were symbols of ‘Malayness’, the Chinese would feel little loyalty to them. Paradoxically, they were quite pro-royalty because they did not really trust Malay politicians. Indeed, they viewed the Agung and the rulers as protectors of their vital interests.”
kt notes: In the end, it was/is/will be the Chinese & Indians (not the lebai's) who support the Rulers
So, Fkcs off with all the racist anti-'non' kerbau!!!
The biggest kerbau ever exists in bolihland - the common fart permeating amongst the constantly syioksendiri ketuanan freaks, the ever twisted jihadi ready zombies & those blurry struggling sotong - that they r been conned to believe they TRULY fight for the 3R!
ReplyDeleteOf course the Chinese have to fight the communist terrorists who were their fellow brothers and cousins who brought the ideology from mainland China to Tanah Melayu. Budaya cina yang selalu bikin kacau. And yet they want medals for their alleged valour. Banyak cantik.
ReplyDeleteBanyak cantik indeed, mfer if u ever realise that many of the old melayu communists were influence via contacts & literatures coming out from abang Indonesia!
DeleteEver read/heard of Pendita Za'ba?
Ooop… as a melayu palsu of recent make, u do know fart about those pioneering socialist melayu!
A bit about patriotism in this country
ReplyDeleteTo be patriotic means to express great love for and loyal to one's country. Are the non-Malays/Bumiputras less patriotic than the Malays/Bumiputras in this country? In fact they should have less love for the country because they are often called 'second-class' citizens as they are deprived of many privileges.
After the Lahad Datu incident of 2013 where a number of security personnel were killed, some politicians expressed resentment that some races had to die for the country but others needn't. It is a fact that the majority of our police and security personnel are made up of Malays or Bumiputras because they comprise a large portion of the population. Because of their big number, they opt to join the police as constables or become soldiers in the armed forces (those with poor academic qualifications, and if they need mouths to feed!)) or as a last resort, work as abang/pak guards at government or commercial buildings. Is this segment of the population more patriotic, compared to the non-Malay/Bumiputra technicians working in factories, vegetable farmers, entrepreneurs or doctors in hospitals? It is a fact that there are not many Chinese policemen or armed forces personnel around but it is a fact that the Chinese relish joining the RELA and also managing the much-needed supplementary fire fighting services for our society.
Fact check:
Delete★who were those security personnel died in that Lahad Datu incident of 2013?
Not yr oft farted melayu but the Sabah natives!
★Before the set in of the ketuanan narratives, many Nons served in high positions in many of a military operatives. They planned/trained/operated many field operations that SAVED the life of many of the ground soldiers who were mainly melayu!