Cheras Umno chief Syed Ali Alhabshee bedevilled Vernacular schools obstacle to unity in Malaysia

 

The lingua-franca of all Malaysian communication is Bahasa Malayu,   Malays nationalism must pushed Within all races however, lingering colonial thought structures and preconceived notions about the presumed intrinsic worth of specific languages have prevented attitudes towards Malay language from evolving at the same pace as the changing needs and realities.

Malay’s polity is unique in the world. It is the only country in the world which has a political system without any politicians. Which is like having a plane without any pilots to fly it. Or having a surgical procedure without any surgeons to perform it.

Politics without politicians? Incredible but true.

 You change. Your thinking changes as well and so do the values you hold. 
How can one evolve and not their thinking? How can they evolve without change? Evolution is change. They evolve and so do their values.Malay ,Culture is the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behaviour. Culture, thus defined, consists of  Malay language, ideas, beliefs, customs, taboos, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, works of art, rituals, ceremonies, and other related components. The development of culture depends upon humans' capacity to learn and to transmit knowledge to succeeding generations ideas, beliefs, customs, taboos, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, works of art, rituals, ceremonies, and other related components. The development of culture depends upon humans' capacity to learn and to transmit knowledge to succeeding generations
 Gerakan and MCA don't play drama

  If there is no racism why do we still reading job advertisement with mandarin speaking is required or advantage. since we have been independent for 57 years and why we cant speak in a single language with everyone in Malaysia when we have BM as our official language? further all this racist remark that we have been reading and hearing is out of ignorance not knowing the other race well enough. we have to start somewhere to be united and education could be one. lets don't be emotional lets evaluate our options rationally rather than being defensive.
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Cheras Umno chief Syed Ali Alhabshee urged the government to look into setting up a single-stream school system.the real obstacle to unity is in Malaysia.
It is unfortunate that in Malaysia  bedevilled by the vernacular schools which are the cause of racial disunity. Malays are fighting for  very survival in Malaysia sad for a country which has been independent for more than half a century.UMNO should reclaim hold over Malay to prevent the Chinese from turning communal again, have only heightened Malays sentiments among UMNO cadres for whom Malay their mother language has long been an article of faith.He said Malaysia was probably the only country in the world that still practiced a multi-stream education system, which is a breeding ground for racial discord.

"Maybe it's time that the Malaysian government abolish vernacular schools which is seen as the platform in creating the thickening racist sentiments among the people," he said in a blog posting today.
Gerakan has urged its BN partner Umno not to make Chinese vernacular schools the " sacrificial lamb" for its politics.Extremism, racism, religious bigotry have no place in any society in the world, not even in Malaysia.We are all Malaysians; and we must cherish Chinese education.
 
Responding to Umno Cheras division chief Syed Ali Alhabshee's proposal to close down Chinese vernacular schools, Gerakan secretary-general Liang Teck Meng said calling for the schools to be closed was "sinful".

"Vernacular schools are not suitable to be practiced anymore in this country seeing as how it was set up under British policies which were meant to tear the people apart.

"Single-stream schools, however, could be an element in uniting the people of multiple races in the country.

"I hope the leaders in component parties can see that the setting up of such an education system is the way to create a single identity for the people of Malaysia without looking at race," said Syed Ali.

He was referring to MCA Religious Harmony Bureau chairman Datuk Ti Lian Ker who wanted an Umno leader to be investigated for sedition over his call to abolish Chinese schools.

Umno Petaling Jaya Utara division deputy head Mohamad Azli Mohamed Saad had earlier said that the party's general assembly next month should debate whether Chinese vernacular schools should be abolished.

This, he said, was because Chinese schools were being used by the opposition to breed racial and anti-government sentiments.

Ti had slammed Azli for his comments, saying that the latter's call contravened the Federal Constitution and Barisan Nasional’s spirit of inclusiveness.

Syed Ali said he regretted Ti's reaction to Azli's statements, saying that he should have picked a better channel to slam Azli.

"This is to avoid what he said to be misconstrued by others who had their own political agenda."

the fear factor is gone

He said today, that should Umno discuss the matter in its general assembly, it did not mean that the party intends to be a "hero" but that it prioritised the issue of unity among the people.

"It has been Umno's struggle since it was set up in 1946 to do whatever it takes to ensure that the people of all races in the country lived in peace and were defended appropriately," he added.

"When I defend single-stream schools, it does not mean that Umno wants to betray or be cruel to any race in the country. On the contrary, Umno feels that only a single-stream education system can bring about national unity.

"This is because schools play a role that is wider in educating and making students appreciate national unity."

He said that single-stream schools was also not to kill the mother-tongue of other races, but they could also learn those languages in national schools.

He singled out neighbouring Singapore, a Chinese-majority country which uses a single-stream education system, saying that it has managed to foster national unity among the people of different races there.

"And in that country, they do not have any Chinese-medium schools," he added.

Meanwhile, former MCA president Tan Sri Dr Chua Soi Lek said it was naive for anyone to believe that a single-stream education system would create unity in Malaysia.

"Blaming Chinese education for disunity sounds like a desperate politician unable to understand the underlying cause of disunity in a multi-racial country.

"There are many examples in the world that in a mono-ethnic country with same religion and mother tongue but they are the most disunited people," he said, adding there were "deeper issues" involved in disunity.

He said that the issue of abolishing vernacular schools is an old one that is often used by politicians from both sides of the political divide to "make them look great and good".

"Unfortunately, Umno politicians seem to take the bait, hook, line and sinker.

"Mother tongue education will not be an issue and the opposition will have no opportunity to exploit it if the government gives adequate, equal and fair treatment to the Chinese education without neglecting Bahasa Melayu.

"So, hopefully some Umno divisional leaders will wake up, this issue will not bring any benefit, both to the party and in the general election. It is the intolerance and refusal to accept the different stream of education that causes us more ethnic tension," he added.

Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak? asked Professor Higgins. On my recent visit to England, i felt like echoing the good professor’s sentiment. In a London supermarket Bunny asked a shop assistant — a local lad, not a Bangladeshi, for a change — where a particular type of coffee could be found. He directed us by pointing to the rear of the store. We found the coffee and were coming back with it when we came across him again.

Av oo goh wa oo ur affa? he said. Av oo goh wa oo ur affa?? i repeated, not having the faintest idea what he was talking about. If, that is, he was talking, and not having some sort of strangling fit which caused totally unintelligible sounds to gargle out of his mouth.

Av oo goh wa oo ur affa? he repeated. Bunny, the linguist, came to the rescue. Yes, thank you, she said to the chap, and led me to the cash till to pay for the coffee.

What on earth was that? i asked when we got outside. What weird language was that fellow speaking? I couldn’t understand a word, i said. He was speaking English, and he was asking you ‘Have you got what you were after?’, said Bunny.

If he were speaking in English and asking me ‘Have you got what you were after?’ why didn’t he say that, instead of ‘Av oo goh wa oo ur affa?’ i said. Because that’s the way the English speak English, said Bunny.

And she was right. Nowadays, the only people who speak understandable English in England are the foreign visitors and immigrants, the East Europeans, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and Indians. Locals — unless they’ve been to a good school, which few seem to have done — speak a variety of alleged English which might as well be an Esiquimaux sub-dialect for all the sense it makes to outsiders.

Why can’t the English teach themselves how to speak? And the reason could be that, unlike all us foreigners who have had to learn the language, the English never had to learn what they call their native tongue. So when they speak it, they don’t follow the rules of pronunciation or grammar, as do those who’ve been taught the language, with the result that no one can understand the English spoken by a lot of English people. Except, of course, other English people who speak just like them. It’s not just spoken English but also written English that the English have abandoned. On ad hoardings all over, the word ‘palate’, as in the palate of one’s mouth, is spelt as ‘palette’, the handheld board artists mix paint on, and no one seems to notice, or mind, the misnomer. The apostrophe is almost invariably wrongly used: ‘The school is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary’; ‘That book is her’s’.

Without realising it, the English are endorsing the views of people like Mulayam Singh Yadav who believe in the policy of ‘Angrezi hatao’. But if the English hatao English what’ll they use in its stead as their rashtriya bhasha? Simple. The English gave us English, so we should give them Hindi .

After all, fair’s fair, isn’t it? Or, as the English might have it, innit?