Last night's forum by Tony Pua entitled " Civil Service Excellence...Quality v Quantity" was well attended except that our Malay brothers were noticeably absent.
Again we were speaking to ourselves with only ourselves listening and applauding.Their absence was understandable because of their phobia that they would be bombarded with "you are wrong, you are wrong" rhetorics. As such they would prefer to listen only what their own kind is saying.
As we all know UMNO has successfully institutionalised the concept of Malay Supremacy by unleasing May 13. Given such reality our approach should be more constructivive in substance than just pure criticism and rhetorics. Show them the way in which everyone will benefit in a just Malaysia with no risk of an Iraqi situation evolving.
Choice of words to convey an idea is as important as the idea itself. Take for instance, the forum's title :Civil Service Excellence...Quality versus Quantity. In my view the title is inapproriate. Quantity would conjure up things like "dumping ground", "unemployable graduates" "unproductivity", "clockwatcher" and the like. Since Tony was against the idea of "sacking" the excess 30% Civil Service fat, I think the forum's title should read: Civil Service Excellence...Quality Redeployment.
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4 comments:
You alluded that Malaysia may go the way of Iraq in your blog and in Tony Pua's blog. Care to enlighten me how this can be so?
Dear MZ,
Thanks for you feedback.
Just like Iraq, Malaysia has 3 major races namely Malays, Chinese and Indians. Just like Iraq the differences of three enthic groups are just as diverse. Malays have Islam as their religion, Indians Hindu and Chinese a variety of religions.
In such a situation, racial clashed between the Malays and Chinese occurred just after the 2nd World War and in May 19 1969. It didn't escalate further because the Chinese, migrated from China to escape tha hush economic conditions then prevailing, did not want to fight but to only immersed in economic activities. This explains their dominance of the Malaysian economic.
If the 3 ethnic Malaysians are left on their own, they could find common grounds in a "give and take" atmosphere and nothing would happen and they would like in peace with each other with tolerance. However like in Iraq where the US military might could toppled the Sunnis and up comes the Shiites, any foreign power could easily manipulate the Malaysian situation and turn it into another Iraq. I would not like to speculate who the likely foreing powers might be, but if you look into history, you can easily guess.
Rgds.
Simon Wee
redployment? to where, mr wee? when we know the government sector is bloating to the hilt.
hey, isnt it time to dispense with the semantics. look at the long term economic burden on the country if this (bloating exercise) is allowed to continue.
Dear Anonymous,
Thanks for your feedback.
You are right in saying that talking (semantics) will not slove the problem. But then talking is Confucius' "first step". Martin Luther King first dreamt about it, then talked about it and finally achieved it although after his death.
Another "Anonymous" has expressed similar sentiment in Tong Pua's bl;ogsite, & my reply to him was as follows:
"Dear Anonymous,
This type of talk of "changing harbour" is not condusive to Malaysians. We must face up to any problem and find the solution. It is difficult but not impossible.
Face up to the challenge for the sake of other Malaysians who have no where else to go but Malaysia Look for common grounds and one of them is that every one wants a piece of the cake. Is it so diificult with China and India booming. It is just a matter of getting things done the balanced way so that no one will feel deprived. It is difficult given the long fester but not impossible as it is in the interest of every Malaysian to live in peace with each other. Time has changed and thing can be done differently and achieving the same favourable results with globalisation."
"Bloating" just like "overpoulation" is subjective. In the case of Singapore, it has the highest population in the world and yet it is not considered overpopulated because the economic activities can sustain it. In fact it is considering allowing more immigrants in.
We felt the "bloating" effect now because the Malaysian economic cake is strinking. But given the booming economy of Chine, India and the rest of Asia, we will stand to benefit through globalisation if we, Malaysians have the stamina to sustain ourselves. I believe we have. Just stand up and be counted. We are all in it together.
Long live Malaysians.
Regards
Simon Wee
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