Third lecture...

Nowadays, the foreigners can be seen everywhere. Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia is now occupied by a large number of foreigners who are from Bangladesh, Myanmar and Indonesia, and it is more than the Malaysian population. Hence, the following questions were asked during the lecture class:

1. What if the foreigners ask for the rights for voting Malaysia government?

A number of classmates stated that they will feel neglected and upset over the fact that we are being replaced by the foreigners. It is normal to have those feelings because we have been living here since the day we were born. Then I realised this is the situation that the Malay ethnics and bumiputera faced in the past before Malaya independent. Today, Chinese and Indians are part of Malaysia. So, I am wondering whether the foreigners who are staying here for a long period of time will have the same opportunity to become Malaysian. Who knows? Just like our ancestors, who refuged from China to Malaysia and tried to earn money here to send money back to their families who were still in China. But later, they did not want to give up things that they had in Malaya and asked for their rights here.
 

2. What if Malaysia together with Singapore is taken over by our neighbour country, Thailand?

To be honest, when I first heard about this question, I did not feel sad or angry. I don’t really care about that, because in my heart, Malaysia is always Malaysia, just that our leader is changed. Even though most of us don’t feel proud for Malaysia but we still love our country. As Dr Carmen said, we love our parents and it is none of the business of being proud of them or not.

Besides, I believe that majority of us have patriotism deep inside our heart. Although we may not think our country is the best but at least we have the passion towards our country because Malaysia is our pride. We care about Malaysia. The best example is we gave support to Datuk Lee Chong Wei when he was involved in the matches and we cheered for him when he took home the victory.

Furthermore, I have learnt that people who are from different countries always try to differentiate themselves from others in term of language, costume and products they buy that made by their own country to show nationalism. Like Dr. Carmen said, if you are going to be the representative of Malaysia, you should put on Malay traditional costumes like baju kurung to show people that you are a Malaysian.
 

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