Second rate
It’s no secret that the non-bumiputras are second class citizens here.
It will come a day when we will become a scarcity here and the odds against us will be bigger than what it is now, what with the 60-something percent of bumi majority and growing.
Balik Cina might sound pretty good to me when I finally sit, staring at the gunky roadside, burnt out from a dead end job trying to pay my bills and taxes with my meager salary.
How can we possibly change the mindset of the old and ’set’?
How do you want the country to advance when I see my fellow university-supposedly-educated students spit and littering freely?
How can we achieve equality when there’s obviously no such thing as equality?
How can we say that our judiciary, police force and ministers are corrupted when we, when desperate, hand the bribe money over without a second thought?
“Please do not suggest that we should hold an awareness campaign anymore”, says my dear lecturer who lamented that, that seems to be the only solution we students can come up with when given a problem.
I’ve realized recently, that not everybody is as educated, or rather, intellectually-sophisticated OR mature as desired.
Also, I’m beginning to doubt that the problems of our country will ever solve themselves. Maybe it’s wishful thinking but, maybe, just maybe, if everyone of us can be true to ourselves, it will certainly be a better place.
That, and we should start culling idiots.
Aaahhh, feels great to snap back to my usual cynical, thinks-highly-of herself form.
