I ain't qualified to prose and lament on the above subject but needless to say, when you get sandwiched in-between the musings and ramblings of the mainstream Malays, you tend to come out of your cocoon and voice it out harshly.
There was once a saying and I don't know if the saying is still in the air - the Malays are kinda laid-back people, prefer humble surroundings, peace loving, prefer to ignore confrontations and simply want to live life to nature's fullest. And mostly, many prefer their generation to take over their skills and trade, mainly tending to their vast rice fields and grow old together with the times.
The Malays, predominantly are god-fearing Moslems who pretty much don't fancy modernization. Their preferred lifestyle of living is rather mellow and many a times would prefer to sit and chase aways birds and catch crickets over their paddy fields whilst idling away with time and the world around them.
The Malays are a crafty society and thus take great pride in handicraft work, whilst attuning to the life style of a simple diligent home-provider. Many non-Malays know this for a fact. It is also written in the annals of Malay history.
But today, that very panorama and the mind-set of the Malays is no-where near to be seen or felt. The Moslems Malays of Malaysia have changed. For the better would be good but blindly not.
Today, they are bold, deceitful and in many ways greedy and lazy. Wealth has brought them arrogance and haughtiness. The older generation to a minuscule faction of the populace still believe of the good old times but the modern ones, especially the younger ones have in many ways discarded the saintly traits and have traded all of that to racism, hatred, greed, bigotry and many ungodly traits - and this is not only targeted to the non-Moslem society but also to their own creed as well. They no longer embrace or even advocate what their forefathers brought forth - a legacy of good old human values.
Gone are the gentleness, the suaveness and the beauty of the Malay people and culture. Today, they have become human hyenas. They have come to understand their egoism is worth more than the sanctity of their faith. They've forgotten to imbibe what they have learned from their ancestors. They have become sinister with their crimes and feel everything the nation has to offer is theirs to keep and never to be shared with others. Many have forgotten the ideology of the late Tunku Abdul Rahman and what he stood for.
Now, the Malays view the non-Malays as enemies and are at logger heads with their own kind. The greed in venting their hatred is now so brave and eager - in socio and political. The Malays have learned to know what it's like to be rich and own everything in their path. They have begun to bite the very hand that feeds them and in any way if that is hindered or obstructed, they tend to park all their blames and grouches on the minority races.
From the benchmark stands of politics to economy, the Malays staunchly feel everything their country has got to offer, should be given to them first. All else is secondary. The larger share of the nation, or whatever way it is divided, should rightfully go to them - for the sole purpose as being 'sons of the land' (bumiputras). This is a gross fallacy of the Malays both in thinking and believe. To be honest, the real rightful 'sons of the lands' are the indigenous people who have been toiling and cultivating the land long before the Malays were here.
And out of context, one may ask - then where did the Malays come from?
Here again the very wisdom of history gets distorted on the emergence of the Malays. There is a strong believe the Malays were from Southern China and some from the Khmer Empire.
The Malaysian history is well written to cloud and distort anything lame of the malays or their foreign roots. It is written to mainly brag of the greatness of the Malays and its hierarchy. Even in written history, the Malays are granted their right to have a bigger say. Such a society - how weak and fallible!
No Malaysian today would deny Prince Parameswara's legacy - who sailed and started a mini-empire and later have his name entombed in the annals of the Malaysian history; and that so after he became a moslem. I wonder what history would be like if Parameswara (a Hindu) had remained himself in faith and religion.
All that is now lost in varied spells. Sad to say, we would never live to know how great this nation would have been if everything and anything that happened thousands of years ago were recorded rightfully and truthfully in the annals of our lame Malaysian history.
How myriad have we become!
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