Kuala Lumpur , 31 Dec 2019 ( The Capital Post) – An online petition by the Asraf Luqman is making gaining support from netizens and has gathered more than 140,000 signatures with 100,000 of them were registered 48 hours ago.
Launched 5 months ago, the petition called for the abolishment of vernacular school with suggestion that national school system should be implemented to integrate unity .
“Let us urge the Malaysian government to abolish SJKC and SJKT by implementing a national education stream for 7-12 year olds for all Malaysians to bring about the unity of the nation through the education.”, the petition initiator wrote.
Link for the online petition can be found here. (The Capital Post)
Asri’s simplistic take ignores the reality that friction stems from the Definition of Malay in Article 160, the inclusion of Malay in Article 153, the degeneration, deviations and distortions of Article 153 and NEP and the Federal gov’t’s non-compliance on MA63.
The people in Europe were only able to increase their average level of intelligence by the Age of Renaissance when they weeded out inbreeding and incest through the role of the Church.
If the people are left alone and given choices to communicate as best as they can, a new language will emerge as the lingua franca.
That’s how Malay — based on a Cambodian dialect, Tamil, Sanskrit and Pali — emerged as the lingua franca of the Archipelago.
Although there’s a Malay language, there’s no Malay race.
The Definition of Malay in Article 160 is not race.
There’s no Malay blood and tanah tumpah darahku in Article 160.
Mahathir from Kerala claimed, not so long ago, that “except for spoonfuls of blood (Indian), otherwise I am Malay”.
Mahathir is Indian (Malayalee) by race and blood, and Malay by identity.
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https://fernzthegreat.wordpress.com/2019/12/30/hadi-awangs-malays-malay-world-do-not-exist/
There’s no Malay race in the Definition in Article 160.
https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/12/31/support-for-petition-to-ban-vernacular-schools-spikes-after-perlis-muftis-n/1823523
Except for the Gen Y, Malays did not vote for PH.
If vernacular schools are banned, national schools will turn into a battleground for pupils. Parents should equip their children with martial arts skills.
In English schools, the Chinese were the majority, and I had to constantly fight them. They only left me alone when I emerged as among the top students in school.