‘够’马来西亚人 ‘Enough’ Malaysia!

肉骨茶开斋、更衣室开斋、华裔医生拒医马来病患。

不知道人们是否有注意到，这其中就牵扯了马来西亚的三大民族。第一宗，只能怪主角二人博出名博到博出火，外加脑残，还说扣留所日子真不错；第二宗也查了个明白，或许也真的不关系种族歧视，但直至今日报纸上还报道了‘印裔围堵质问xx’的新闻，证明确实某些人的心灵被伤害了；第三宗也正在调查中，是真是假还属未知数，无论是确有此事或空穴来风，都不是一件好事。

种族关系从古至今，无论任何朝代或地区，纷争不断——中国满汉之争、南非种族隔离，近至印尼大屠杀或大马513等等，仿佛种族已是一道跨越不过的鸿沟。

但往往，也是因为危机，才出现了转机。南非的戴克拉克和曼德拉成功了；中国还政于民了；印尼也废除土著地位了。他们牺牲了不少，就比如印尼华裔牺牲了本身的母语。

大马从513至今，过了许多个和谐的十年，但我们牺牲了平等和自由。我们所保留下来的，多多少少还是我们之间主要的差异。差异固然需要维护，我赞成，但却必须因此而更努力维持和谐。

从以往的课本当中，我就不喜欢看见‘种族敏感’（sensitiviti kaum）这个词语。敏感，表达了它难以控制和不了解的那种负面关系。我们的关系若是敏感的，表示我们是如此的小心翼翼和恭恭敬敬。这不是不好，而是不能够‘变得更好’。过分的尊重和礼让使我们保持了一段距离。

彼此了解和认识才是现在最重要的。如何了解各族，往往可以从参与他们的活动开始。食物也是一种很好的管道，让我们更加理解不同的文化。而我时常告诉朋友，没有参到不同族群的马来西亚人其实真的不够马来西亚，因为就少了那一点点的rojak感。

今天或许我们因为当权者的一些决定而有了怨恨，但若我们没有身边的朋友，谁能了解我们呢？我们又是否愿意了解他们为何会有此想法呢？

*介绍这本书，它的确让我看见许多‘马来西亚人’。*
*Would like to recommend this book, it shows me real ‘Malaysians’ here *

‘Cukup’ Malaysian!

Buka Puasa with Bak Kut Teh, Canteen in Changing Room, Chinese Doctor refused to treat Malays.

Did you all notice, these cases had already involved the 3 main ethnics in our country? The first, we could only say that the two of them, were too fanatic of being famous, until they had got themselves into trouble, and still, saying that the ‘lokap’ days were ‘not bad’; the second case had undergo investigation, and the Deputy Prime Minister had confirmed that no races issue because it’s an alternative for the current-renovating canteen, but unfortunately in today’s newspaper, a politician was surrounded by members of an Indian NGO because he supported the principal；while the third case is still under investigation, and no matter it’s a real or a fake news, it wouldn’t be good for us neither.

Races relationship, from decades to decades, and from the north to the west, has always been controversial: from the Manchu-Han in China and Apartheid in South Africa, to the 1998 May Riots of Indonesia and the 13 May Tragedy in Malaysia，races relationship seems like a huge gap that we would never get through.

But bear in mind, crisis always brings to a better change. These happened after the situations above: In South Africa, Nelson Mandela and always-forgotten President Frederik Willem de Klerk ended the Apartheid; China returned the power to the People；and Indonesia had abolished the race-based politics. They might have sacrificed a lot, and this reminds us all were not easy after all. For example, the Indonesian Chinese had sacrificed their mother tongue language.

From 13 May till today, we had years of peace and harmony, but we had also sacrifices freedom and equality. We hope for a better Malaysia. And we still manage and preserve some differences among us and these made Malaysia so unique. This is a sure Yes for me to do so. But in the other hand, because of these differences we have to work even harder to maintain the peace and harmony in our country.

From the text books before, I personally dislike the term of ‘races sensitivity’. Sensitivity sounds so much negatively unable to control and unable to understand. It means if our relationship is sensitive, we are so far away from each other and always be ‘shy’ to each other because we never know when we would anger another. This isn’t bad, but it stops us to being better. Over-respect makes us further actually.

The most important thing for us to do now is to understand and know more about others. We should start from joining activities of different races or try their food to learn more about the cultures. And, I always tell my friends that if we never befriend or mix with other races, we are not really so Malaysian because we never taste the ‘rojaktivity’ of Malaysia.

Perhaps, we do not like what the people in power had done to us, but if we never have friends around us to tell, who would understand our situation? And are we willing to listen to others to share about their situation?