A Progressive Malaysia.

"Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done." - Yukio Mishima.

The thought lying between the traditional and modern point of view of how should Malaysia be shouldn't be taken on one point of view. 

I write this a critique to my country's point of view, Malaysia and their views of race.

Malaysia should be viewed like a spectrum, there's so many edges and things to consider being a multi-cultural society, although I will not view Malaysia as a "melting pot" society which was claimed by Najib Razak. 

We all want to see Malaysia progressing further. 

Yet what hinders us since the 1960s (from the formation of Malaysia) is the thought that race still is an important matter for us. We are having the dilemma between making Malaysia as a united, being different in terms of ethnicity, culture and religion. 

I am a Malay, even though my heritage is Javanese. Yet I do not feel it's a matter of concern to label myself as a "Javanese" as I do not speak it even if my parents does. And in my point of view, Javanese falls under the "Malay Archipelago". 

No matter how you look Javanese people are different, it is still the same. 

It's like viewing a phone made by Samsung and yet what only differs is the model. But they were made by the same company. 

I feel we lack understanding. But I understood that the growing tension is made by people who felt tired of the current ruling party; the Barisan Nasional (BN) and demands an immediate change. 

I abstain my view of supporting any parties first of all. 

But tell me that I am wrong. 

If we demanded for a change, what change are we really demanding from a newer ruling party? And are we ourselves are ready for a whole different kind of change?

I read Syed Saddiq's, who is my 2 years senior in RMC tweet of his poll in twitter. "Will you vote BN for the next PRU?", a question to the young voters. 

It's not a matter of parties. It's a matter of us. 

The fact that is clearly stated for us Malaysians is that race & religion is inseparable in Malaysian politics. 

Until we realize that race is no longer the setpoint to provide the people's needs and rights, we can still be dreaming about differences in unity. 

I remembered doing a research in a kampung at Sarawak, semester 2. 

In the kampung, for the last 30 years, ADUN changed but the problems still persists for the flood management. Regardless of which party the ADUN belongs to, they'll still help the people which their race belongs to. 

So there is a lack of justification, for fairness and treatment among us. Because we still think race is an important matter. 

Urban voters will demand about rights and change. But if we were to go for rural areas, the question of basic necessities is still a big question mark for them. As for example, barrage for flood management, road repairing. These things, it matters to them because it's not complete. 

In truth, most of us still don't view different race being as one, united or together. But rather as competitors, people competing with each other. Malay, Indian or Chinese or basically just any race. 

We don't even know the bigger picture, the difference between race and ethnicity. So forget about being united when you can't even understand the difference amongst us!

We still talk about cessation of Sabah and Sarawak, of them being able to rule the state without the help of the central government.

I don't understand why some people flew the colonial flag of Brooke's era. If it's for a momento purpose to serve people to understand their history and heritage I guess it's fine but as a flag, to drive people in disunity, I really do think people should understand them first before flying the flag. 

Why should we be proud of being a puppet state to the British like now, when we have achieved independence for so long?

It's a sad truth. 

We are just merely repeating a new idea that is deemed as the "best" idea, something that is what's best for us, when we have never looked an answer for it. We are just repeating the same old idea by our predecessors, when we know that it will never worked. 

In truth, we have never even produced a newer idea. 

It's about know what you really want. Not repeating what others think. Before you repeat, think.

Until we all achieve an understanding amongst us, we can finally talk about a progressive Malaysia. A newer thinking by the younger generation of this country.

I will change the URL for this blog, stay tuned.

I'll write more later.

Asyraf Amir. 20160212.