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Dilema Melayu

asSalamualaikum.

Malaysia-Today.net semalam bergegar lagi dengan transkrip daripada Tun Dr. Mahathir tentang masyarakat Melayu yang mundur. (Baca Link : New Malay Dilemma)

Jujurnya, saya rasa tercabar. Saya yakin anda juga berasa tercabar. Siapa yang tidak tercabar, apabila hal perkauman dibangkitkan, jika hal perpuakan diutarakan. Namun begitu, saya sarankan kepada anda semua, baca dahulu post itu sebelum membuat ulasan sendiri.

The Malays are among the few people whose race is legally defined. Thus, the Malaysian Constitution states that a Malay is one who habitually speaks Malay, professes the religion of Islam and practises Malay customs.

There is nothing said about the definitive culture of the Malays. It follows that changes in culture do not make a Malay person a non-Malay.

Culture is made up largely of the value systems accepted, even if not actually practiced by a people or a race. Observations have shown that the culture of a people determines whether they are successful or they fail...

Europeans, Asians, Africans and American Indians can all be successful and can all fail. It is, therefore, not the race or ethnicity which determines success. It is the culture.

When I wrote The Malay Dilemma in the late 60s, I had assumed that all the Malays lacked the opportunities to develop and become successful.
They lacked opportunities for educating themselves, opportunities to earn enough to go into business, opportunities to train in the required vocation, opportunities to obtain the necessary funding, licences and premises.

If these opportunities could be made available to them, then they would succeed...

.... But today, the attitude has changed. Getting scholarships and places in the universities at home and abroad is considered a matter of right and is not valued any more.

Indeed, those who get these educational opportunities for some unknown reason seem to dislike the very people who created these opportunities.

Worse still, they don't seem to appreciate the opportunities that they get.

They become more interested in other things, politics in particular, to the detriment of their studies.

In business, the vast majority regarded the opportunities given them as something to be exploited for the quickest return...

They learn nothing about business and become even less capable at doing business and earning an income from their activities.

They become mere sleeping partners and at times not even that. Having sold, they no longer have anything to do with the business. They would go to the government for more licences, permits, shares, etc...


Isu biasiswa? Biasiswa yang bias? Mungkin. Mungkin tidak. Anda perlu ingat, yang 'score' di dalam PMR, SPM, bukannya sedikit, tetapi ramai. Ramai. Ramai. Begitu ramai sehinggakan susah untuk menyediakan tempat yang ingin bakal siswa/siswi tersebut melanjutkan pengajiannya di gedung ilmu serata Malaysia.

Mahasiswa berpolitik? Mungkin ada betulnya di situ. Mungkin tidak.Salahkah mahasiswa berpolitik? Adakah anda menyalahkan mahasiswa berpolitik, gara-gara kerana mahasiswa merupakan antara turnout paling ramai ketika demonstrasi menentang anda, back then when you were still the Premier. Well, mungkin anda juga lupa, anda merupakan antara frontliner terhebat ketika anda belum mendapat gelaran Dr. di zaman kampus dahulu.

Melayu mundur dari segi ekonomi? Well, yang ini berkemungkinan besar. Memang kebanyakan syarikat di serata Malaysia (terutamanya syarikat-syarikat yang besar) kebanyakannya dimiliki oleh kaum lain, selain daripada Melayu. Kita ada Syed Mokhtar Bukhary, kita ada Azman Aziz, namun itu mereka hanyalah figura-figura yang mewakili kita sahaja. Bagaimana pula dengan sektor pertengahan. Bukan kita yang menguasainya, akan tetapi kaum lain.

.... Why has this thing happened? The answer lies in the culture of the Malays. They are laid-back and prone to take the easy way out. And the easy way out is to sell off whatever they get and ask for more. This is their culture.

Working hard, taking risks and being patient is not a part of their culture. It should be remembered that in the past the Malays were not prepared to take up the jobs created by the colonial powers in their effort to exploit the country.

Because the Malays were not prepared to work in rubber estates and the mines, the Indians and Chinese were brought in. At one time, the migrants outnumbered the Malays.

Had they continued to outnumber the Malays, independent Malaya would be like independent Singapore.

But the Malays have apparently learnt nothing from the near loss of their country in the past.

Today, they are still unwilling to work and foreign workers are again flooding the country. And because they are not equipping themselves with the necessary education and skills, they have continued to depend on others.

Their political dominance will protect them for a time. But that dominance is fading very fast as they quarrel among themselves and break up into small ineffective groups. Their numerical superiority means less today than at the time of Independence...


Mungkin ada betulnya di sana. Melayu mudah lupa. Dihiasi dengan tanah-tanah rizab, dibayangi dengan bantuan kerajaan, dikaburi dengan banyak lagi perkara lain yang menjadi satu kelebihan buat kaum Bumiputera yang bernama Melayu, kaum ini makin lama makin lupa akan asal-usul, lebih-lebih lagi apabila dipengaruhi dengan budaya-budaya dari Barat yang menjadi-jadi. Dasar pecah dan perintah yang diamalkan oleh pihak British pada satu ketika dahulu memberi impak yang cukup besar, sehinggakan ke hari ini, di mana kita nampak remaja-remaja yang berstatuskan Melayu kebanyakannya kerja di sebagai kerani, sebagai 'office-boy' dan diselia, diketuai oleh kaum lain.

Tidak salah sekiranya bekerja sedemikian, tapi yang menjadi masalah adalah apabila tiadanya sikap ingin berjaya dan menjadi orang tertinggi ditanam, disemai di dalam hati orang-orang seperti ini, sedangkan kaum lain berusaha sedaya-upaya mereka, belajar di institusi pengajian tinggi, walaupun terpaksa bergadai harta yang banyak, semata-mata agar mereka dapat berjaya di bidang masing-masing dengan memegang jawatan-jawatan yang tinggi. Kaum bernama Melayu tidak begini. Mungkin ada, tapi tidak ramai. Yang lainnya sekadar sama ada hangat-hangat tahi ayam, ataupun malas dan sekadar berkata "Cukuplah ini, kerja ini sudah cukup bagiku". Mana perginya azam yang dibina di sekolah, tadika, taska, taski. Dahulu ketika kecil kesemuanya mengatakan ingin menjadi ini, itu, ingin merasa hebat, superior, namun hakikatnya apabila mereka semakin dewasa, dipengaruhi dengan sikap berlengah-lengah, malas, budaya hedonisma yang menjadi-jadi, azam mereka itu kian luntur dan akhirnya hilang begitu sahaja.

Mungkin cukup sekadar itu, sebagai lontaran idea, penghasilan hujah, agar satu anjakan paradigma dapat dibina, dapat dicapai oleh suatu kaum bernama Melayu yang dahulunya begitu hebat sehinggakan dirasai kuasanya baik di Timur mahupun di Barat, dan kini hanyalah seperti ayam yang berkokok, kononnya hebat, tapi kalau dilastik terus senyap.




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