Day 67 Malaysia prejudice policy

Malaysia prejudice policy

Although both Malasia and Australia are countries that with multiple-cultural society, the immigration policies implemented by the governments are substantially different. The ‘second home policy’ in Malaysia allows foreign citizens have easy access to become the permanent resident, where as Austrlia applies a much prudential assessment on immigration. However, the living condition and social welfare for the immigrates are totally opposite in Malasia and Australia. I have talked with various people in my two-day trip in Kuala Lumpur, and learnt their lives. Compared to my experience as a Chinese immigrates living in Australia, I was shocked.

Malaysia’s regime is typical constitutional monarchy, which the king represents the country, but the parliament controls the governing power. As mentioned before, Malaysia is a mutil-culture country, the population is consisted with 55% of local Malay, 24% of Chinese, 7.3% of Indian, and 0.7% of other countries immigrate. Similar to many other East-Asia countries, Chinese immigrates community held the majority of wealth in Malaysia due to their endeavor. So it caused the local government worried about the country will be controlled by these people’s economical influence. In 1957, the Malaysia government proclaimed several discrimination policies against citizens who with foreign background, in order to protect the right for local Malay. These policies cover multiple criteria which propagate ‘Malay supermacy’ and were added to the constitution. For example, only 5% of non-Malay were enrolled as nurse, police, government officer and solider; 96.5% of government budget on primary school was allocated to the Malay background school; over the last 40 years, only 5% of scholarship was awarded to non-Malay citizens; all the companies must employ at least 30% of Malay. These racist policies obviously did not assist Malaysia became a better place. On the contrary, non-Malay citizen would not choose to become a government or police officer, since they would never be promoted. Consequently, the government and the police force suffer corruption and lack of executive ability, because certainly there is impossible to elect sufficient elites from 50% of their population to guide the country. According to the taxi driver who offered me a ride to the airport, the biggest gang in Malasia is the police force. In addition, non-Malay citizens tend to immigrate to other countries. These people are the essence of the non-Malay population, hence they have the ability to apply for immigration. Therefore, the country is losing its top professionals every year. I am not saying Malay people are not friendly to foreign people, but the biased policy makes more and more immigrates to leave the country. And maybe eventually there will only be Malay remains in Malaysia in the future?

A society that propels excessive local protectionism will end up with lack of competition, which is not healthy for its own development. Even though people may from different background, culture or religion, they are still holding the same passport and made a vow when they became the citizen. So we must concentrate on our common target, as to make the country a better place, instead of advocating parochial racialism