Chandra on non-Malay communalism
"...... non-Malay communalism is also due to other factors. It was the Chinese community that, in a sense, made national schools more 'Malay' by sending their kids in overhelming numbers to Chinese primary schools the moment Malay, the national language, was implemented as the main medium of instruction in national schools in the early Seventies. Chinese, socialised in this largely mono-culture school environment, who are very much aware of their 'Chineseness', rule the roost within the community today."
Quoted from an interview with Chandra Muzaffar by Off The Edge, May 2007 issue 29.
posted by ooiheng at
5/06/2007
3 Comments:
pitifull, Chandra dont know chinese are very diverse.
Probably, he is the one who are monoculture while thinking of issues like mother tonque education.
i think he's been going through a revisionist process lately.
A real civil society in Msia situation, is a society with mother-tonque public sphere.
without that, it would only be an elites' civil society.
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