SunDaily - Entrance into public university based on meritocracy: Education Ministry (extracts):
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) has come to the defence of Mazlee for comparing the quota system for the intake of matriculation students with the need for Mandarin mastery when applying for certain jobs in the private sector.
Its vice-chancellor Professor Datuk Dr. Asma Ismail said certain quarters should not look at the remarks by Mazlee through a racial lens, but more on the realities on the ground.
“There are imbalances in the employment opportunities in a diverse country such as Malaysia. They represent the realities of now,“ Asma said.
“There are imbalances in the employment opportunities in a diverse country such as Malaysia. They represent the realities of now,“ Asma said.
Firstly, I don't understand how a quota system set by the government in 1997 (during Mahathir's 1st Reich), based on official bumiputra-Malay preferences, has any relevance to professional jobs in the private sector.
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Maszlee |
As written before, how can a non-Mandarin speaking sales executive have close business relations with Mandarin speaking nations like China and Taiwan compared to one who can speak Mandarin.
In some professions, speaking and reading Mandarin would be essential to the job.
Other jobs may require French, Japanese, Indonesian, Thai, Hindi etc, and indeed Bahasa Melayu proficiencies. For example, if you want to be a TV presenter in Malaysia you in general would be required to speak fluent Bahasa Melayu. I dare say our TV stations-organisations do not require French-speaking proficiency.
To me and many many others, the Education Ministry-set 90:10% quota in favour of Malays is not something we non-Malays support, understand nor can do from a non-political angle.
Not even the DAP, Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Teo Nie Ching dare say anything about a ridiculous LOP-SIDED ratio in this so-called 'new' Malaysia. If they can't, WTF can we?
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Teo Nie Ching aggressive whilst in opposition but silent as a mouse now in government |
It's something for politicians to work out the best solution, and currently the best solution in the minds of PM Mahathir and Education Minister Mazlee is 90:10% in favour of Malays-bumiputra.
Secondly, Dr. Asma Ismail has the brazen nerve and shameless hide to say certain quarters should not look at the remarks by Mazlee through a racial lens, but more on the realities on the ground.
By 'certain quarters' she is pointing at 'non-Malays' in particular, and especially at Dr Ramasamy, wakakaka.
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Dr Ramasamy |
Now, why have I said that Dr. Asma Ismail has brazen nerve and shameless hide?
In relation to her pompous advice not to look through racial lens at Maszlee's 90:10% matriculation process for Malays, isn't that very ratio precisely a 'racist child' born through and from racial process and mentalities?
And has Dr. Asma Ismail consider what's the ethnic ratio in the Malaysian Civil Service, Police and Military, all paid for by taxpayers, many of whom have been and continue to be non-Malays?
And her brazenness is compounded by the reality on the grounds (her word) that Malays constitute only 50.5% of the Malaysian population, while only together with other natives (aborigines, Sarawak and Sabah natives) the percentage comes up to 65%.
Yet her 'reality on the ground' seems to that it's OK for the 50.5% Malays, for example, to be almost 99% in the Malaysian Civil Service.