Is "Malay" a race or is it a legal status?
As far as I know, you can choose your friends but you cannot choose your race.
You are born into a certain race and you can do nothing to change that. The most you can do is to "live" the culture of those in a different race. Even so you would remain in the racial group you were born into.
But there is now a motion to "change" race…. How will that work?
What if a Malay requests to become a Red Indian? How will that work then?
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When a Malay requests to be a Red Indian, the likes of Hang Tuah will kill him. Or perhaps, Hang Jebat will go to his rescue and Jebat manage to difuse the situation this time?
I read the news posted at Bernama’s website.
Are politicians in KIMMA a fool, or taking us for a fool? At the beginning, they said, Indian Muslims borned in Malaysia should be regarded as Malays because they are Muslims, speak Malay and practise Malay adat, all in the line with the Constitutional definition of a Malay. They went on futher, to ask for the status of Bumiputera.
Their foolishness was paraded for all to see, when they said that in the past, members of the Indian Muslim community were reluctant to join UMNO because they wanted to preserve their culture and mother tongue. Weren’t they not the Malay culture and the Malay language they said they practise and speak?
Yet another reason to abolish this Bumiputera status: descendents of the Portuguese in Malacca, a European line a Bumiputera, but the Baba Nyonya of Malacca, an Asian line not bumiputeras? Are the policy makers taking all Malaysians as fools?
If there was no perception of loftiness of that status, I doubt KIMMA would be going for it? Has anyone petitioned to be a pauper so enthusiastically?
I suppose this is what you get when economic preferences are given to certain people because of their race.