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"( Written by a friend Rahim Zainun) :  I am writing this in respond to a dear friends comment on one of my recenta write up, comment such as follows:

a..... so many special privileges, tongkat have made the malays ungrateful, spineless and lazy.

b. That the chinese, in building their schools, did not get a single sen from the government.

c. That the chinese schools are superior compared to other schools.

In looking into the above comments, one must understand some historical facts of our country.

1. Malays, a lazy bunch...?

The first to brand malays as lazy were the British - just because the malays won't work in the mines or, at their plantations, at the speed the british wanted. The British branded the malays lazy for their economic reasons. They wanted the highest possible returns at the fastest possible time, to satisfy their shareholders and investors back home. Solution? bring in foreign labors - the chinese and the Indians.

The chinese, on the other hand, were running away from poverty, hunger, constant war in their country; its their 'century of humiliation'. (pls read on your own on this topic). So, they came over, worked their butt's out at the mines, with the sole aim of making as much money as possible.

According to one record, in 1938, chinese immigrants in Malaya remitted a total of 110 million straits dollar to mainland China. It was a huge amount of money in 1938. But then, it is a natural habit of any immigrant anywhere in the world -  save as much as possible and remit home - today, we faced the same thing. Each Bangladeshi workers remit home, on an average, RM3,000 a month. Do your maths, how much is it in total, a month, if there are a million Bangladeshis here.

Does that mean malays are lazy? Try to wake up at six in the morning, go out rubber tapping at the family's small rubber plantation, or wake up at two in the morning, prepare nasi lemak for your customers (I know a lady who did that, operating a roadside nasi lemak stall, from 7am to 11am, making a profit of about RM300 a day). Or, go out weeding, fertilise your padi fields, from dawn to noon).

Then, perhaps, you want to look into how the early Felda settlers struggled in a very harsh, mosquitoes infested areas and conditions, from dawn to dusk, to earn probably five or six ringgit a day plus some food coupons, before they could reap their first harvest.

British would brand people they colonised; they would do anything and everything, as long as it serves their interest.

They sold opium to China because that's the only way to get into China. They brand the early malay nationalist as 'leftist' because these nationalist were a thread to their economic interest; not only were these nationalist branded leftist, they were also prosecuted, hunted, and banished.

So, are the malays are a lazy lot, just because the malays won't work to what the orang puteh wanted them to ?

(In my next article, I will write about the tongkat. Just a sneak preview:

From 1960 to 1970, about 7,300 young malaysians graduated from local universities. Of these, 14% were Indians, 26% were malays, 60% were Chinese. For every one malay engineer graduate, there were 100 Chinese. For every one malay doctor, there ninety Chinese. Assuming during that ten years, the gov spent a billion ringgit on university education, who benefited most?).

Wait for my next write up...""