We have this New Economic Policy, which favors the malays and the indigenous races more than the chinese, indians, and others.
All this stems from the fact that we used to be colonised by the British via the East India company and others. To work the tin mines, lots of chinese and indian workers were brought in. Fast forward to the current age, some of the malays still feel that the chinese and indians are 'immigrants' and treat them like they're not a citizen, even though they are. I've had my fair share of racism even though I'm a 4th generation Malaysian myself.
We're having a general election today, and from the rumors and videos flying around, I don't think we have much hope. It's not funny when there's pictures and video evidence of vote buying (flying thousands of illegal immigrants to the peninsula for vote, giving out free identification cards, etc), violence, and all round playing dirty.
It's kind of sad that you got to be stuck in this shitty situation. The Malaysian mentality is very different from western countries, and you got to experience this bad side of Malaysia. I can't say sorry on behalf of my country, because I too am subject to this treatment if I am unlucky.
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We have this New Economic Policy, which favors the malays and the indigenous races more than the chinese, indians, and others.
All this stems from the fact that we used to be colonised by the British via the East India company and others. To work the tin mines, lots of chinese and indian workers were brought in. Fast forward to the current age, some of the malays still feel that the chinese and indians are 'immigrants' and treat them like they're not a citizen, even though they are. I've had my fair share of racism even though I'm a 4th generation Malaysian myself.
We're having a general election today, and from the rumors and videos flying around, I don't think we have much hope. It's not funny when there's pictures and video evidence of vote buying (flying thousands of illegal immigrants to the peninsula for vote, giving out free identification cards, etc), violence, and all round playing dirty.
It's kind of sad that you got to be stuck in this shitty situation. The Malaysian mentality is very different from western countries, and you got to experience this bad side of Malaysia. I can't say sorry on behalf of my country, because I too am subject to this treatment if I am unlucky.
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