Kurangnya asimilasi dorong politik berasaskan kaum, kata Dr Mahathir

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Dr Mahathir Mohamad berkata Pejuang berasaskan Melayu untuk mendapatkan undi. – Gambar fail The Malaysian Insight, 6 Oktober, 2021.

POLITIK berasaskan kaum terus berkembang di Malaysia kerana masyarakat berkeras mempertahankan identiti negara asal mereka, kata Dr Mahathir Mohamad hari ini.

Bekas perdana menteri itu berkata tidak seperti negara lain yang pendatangnya menggunakan bahasa dan budaya selepas menerima kewarganegaraan, ia tidak berlaku di Malaysia.

“Pendatang dari negara lain, selepas menerima kewarganegaraan, menerapkan bahasa, budaya dan kesetiaan kepada negara angkat mereka sepenuhnya. Mereka dapat mengasimilasi sepenuhnya selepas satu atau dua generasi,” tulisnya di laman blog.

“Tetapi pendatang di Malaysia, walaupun menjadi warganegara, bukan hanya bertegas untuk diakui sebagai mempunyai asal usul berbeza daripada penduduk asli tetapi secara fizikal dipisahkan melalui fungsi ekonomi dan fahaman politik mereka.”

Selagi rakyat Malaysia terus dikenali melalui negara asal mereka, politik dan parti politik di negara ini akan terus berasaskan kaum, tambahnya.

Dr Mahathir yang merupakan pengerusi Pejuang berkata kekurangan asimilasi ini adalah sebab mengapa parti terpaksa berasaskan Melayu untuk mendapatkan undi.

“Ia (Pejuang) berharap dapat menandingi Umno, sebuah parti Melayu. Dan ia berharap dapat melakukan ini di kawasan luar bandar yang penduduknya kebanyakannya berbangsa Melayu.

“Mereka ini tidak akan menyokong parti berbilang kaum. Sekiranya tidak ada parti Melayu lain, orang luar bandar akan memilih Umno.”

Ahli Parlimen Langkawi itu berkata mereka hanya boleh mengalahkan Umno dengan retorik perkaumannya kerana Pejuang tidak kaya.

“Umno kaya dan orang Melayu luar bandar miskin. Duit sangat bermakna kepada mereka.

“Pejuang adalah alternatifnya. Pejuang tidak mempunyai duit. Ia bergantung kepada kaum dan kempen antirasuah,” tambah Dr Mahathir. – 6 Oktober, 2021.

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  • TDM, the greatest racist who divided the nation along racial lines and caused most of the polarization by blaming and victimizing the other races continues his evil scheme just to get political support. He has enriched his family wondrously at the expense of the poor Malays. He continues to use the racial bait to position his son for the PM position not because he believes this is the problem. He is a very clever and conniving surreptitious and evil man who knows how to exploit the weakness of the poor Malays, even at their expense. Keep them in perpetual fear of a fictitious enemy, in ignorance and in poverty while he finds ways to plunder the wealth of the nations for his family and cronies. If he is sincere about assimilation, do things like removing the race column so that there no distinction of race in the IC/Mycard or any registration for Malaysians, for we are all of one race: Malaysian race, allow anyone to use any name, like some Sarawakian Christian Ibans are called Ahmad bin Sulaiman etc. Then the process of assimilation has effective begun without any fallout. It's not about learning or speaking the vernacular languages. I dare say that almost all non Malays are now conversant in Bahasa Malaysia, some speaking better than even Malays themselves.
    Soon, India and China will be the leading economies of the world and it will do the nation good for its citizens to know these languages. So many countries, including Thailand and Indonesia are promoting the learning of Mandarin. Why are we learning English which is an alien language? Are we to continue to live in the past and and endorse politicians who continue to use race, religion and other divisive tools to promote themselves in the political arena? Why don't each political party present their approaches to how they propose to the long but vital process of mending the broken economy, the severely damaged educational system and the totally incompetent civil service in order to get the rakyat's support? Then we will have leaders who are of calibre,who think and are focused on real problems and ways of solving them and not leaders who find the cheap, easy, brainless and the dangerous way of racial and religious politics. No wonder we end up with a whole load of rubbish leaders because we endorse and allow leaders who play the cheap politics of division, not leaders who present solutions to our real problems.

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