Reading Malaysia from another perspective
Competitiveness, independence and endurance is moulded via throwing people into deep end, rather than via overprotection and constant talking down to.
By Lee Wee Tak
After reading about the appalling decline of Malaysians’ command of English *, which I would equate to loss of one of Malaysia’s greatest national treasure, and musing over the most questionable orientation of the controlled main stream media’s line of reporting, I decided to look up to a Singapore newspaper for a different perspective.
Lo and behold, in 28th December’s edition of Today, I found a relevant article.
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The article mentioned that mainland Chinese students are eroding the advantage of Singaporean students’ superior command of Engish. The article I quoted earlier already mentioned the significant gulf between Singapore Primary 4 English curriculum as compared to form I contents in Malaysia.
What can Malaysia do, faced with such fierce competition?
The article highlighted a significant advantage Singapore has – having a multi-cultural background hence having a more adaptable and flexible mindset.
Actually Malaysia can claim to be more multi-cultural than Singapore, Malaysian Chinese definitely mix with more non-Chinese compared to their Singapore counterparts…and yet our multi-cultural heritage and advantage are being labelled as a threat, an intrusion, an invasion and a robbery. Talk about killing the goose that lay the golden eggs.
One would wonder the motive of such people dealing in currency of communal politics.
For decades, the bumiputera community is given protection and told incessantly that they cannot compete openly and fairly. Well competitiveness, independence and endurance is moulded via throwing people into deep end, rather than via overprotection and constant talking down to.
Read more at: http://wangsamajuformalaysia.blogspot.com/2010/12/reading-malaysia-from-another.html
