4Languages,1Malaysia
This is exactly why I love the way how Malaysia is being transformed. Just take an awesome-ness look at the below article.
Soon, pre-school children will be able to converse in Mandarin and Tamil, apart from Bahasa Malaysia and English used in their Tabika Perpaduan (unity pre-schools).
This is because the National Unity and National Integration Depart ment has plans to introduce basic Mandarin and Tamil lessons in all 1,693 Tabika Perpaduan nationwide early next year.
adapted from here.
If just I could learn that during my days in kindergarten; at least the basic command of the languages. It’s so cool isn’t it?
My 2-cents #1:
Abolish all the ‘sekolah jenis kebangsaan‘ (the chinese/tamil specialized schools).
Replace the ‘sekolah kebangsaan‘ (the malay/english specialized schools) with chinese, tamil, etc languages as selective subjects.
In that way, the languages and culture does not disappear and maintianed. It can still be learn in schools as selective subjects.
My 2-cents #2:
Abolish all special treatments to the bumi’s since now we’re all Malaysians; not outsiders. We are 1.
Replaced with special treatments and scholarships to the poor and needy as according to income status and achievements.
My 2-cents #3:
Names? Eliminate out names as it also could cause name-ist. Through names we could differentiate races. Take Indonesia or Thailand for example, no one knows whether you are of from Malay, Chinese or Indian background. Thus, race issue will be taken out from the picture.
Everyone just have to give and take to achieve this. If everybody just want to take, we will never get to move towards the better. So, what do you think? It’s worth it? I think it DOES.
.LOVE1malaysia
