(AFP) - Malaysia's deputy education minister has said that speaking English in the workplace is "weird" and harmful to the nation's culture and identity, a report said Wednesday.
Mohd Puad Zarkashi said employees in the private sector used English 99 percent of the time and should switch to Bahasa Malaysia in order to show pride in the national language, the New Straits Times reported.
"This also occurs in government-linked companies where we have this weird culture of people speaking to each other in English instead of the national language," he said at the launch of a linguistics seminar.
"We are polluting our own culture and identity as a nation," he said.
"It would be difficult to strengthen the position of Bahasa Malaysia if this culture continued," he added, urging Malaysians to emulate the French, Japanese and Koreans, who stuck to their own language.
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So speaking English is ‘weird’ for this moron. It is weird for only the weirdos.
It is harmful to the nation’s culture and identity he says.
So tell me, what is our culture and what does it represent? Do we have a culture in the first place? We do have a corrupt culture that every Malaysian is aware of.
So how can we pollute our own culture if we do not have one? Puad, we have to ‘switch’ to our Bahasa Malaysia to show pride in the National language? That is what some may say, talking cock.
For a long time, the older generation went to English medium schools and these people are highly successful – that includes the Malays. Then came the switch to BM being the medium of instruction and we sank into an abyss. For a year the Malays were riding high. Then a few years passed and the non-Malays became fluent in BM – perhaps even more fluent than the Malays.
After that, a small switch back to English – Math and Science – to keep up with the rest of the world. We were in the struggling stages but making some progress. Progress comes with time.
Now we have regressed – Math and Science to be taught in BM again. Just when the Malays were making some headway they are pushed back into the stone age.
Is that the culture you are talking about? Why did you not do anything about the bohsia culture?
Then we had the ‘kutu’ culture. Now, you are bringing them all back and making them ‘our’ culture.
You do not have to go very far to see frisky young suppressed Malay girls openly demonstrating their promiscuity – with ‘tudungs’ on mind you. That is a ‘munafiq’ culture.
People like you, with a myopic knowledge of the word ‘culture’ go around preaching garbage. Are you trying to create a subculture?
In any case, are you talking about a Malaysian culture or a Malay culture? You mentioned…’our’ culture. So which is it?
The Malay ‘culture’ is largely derived from the Indian culture. Everyone knows that. Your bersanding ( marriage ceremony ), the clothes you wear, the language, from your songkok to your sepatu, your baju melayu, baju kurung, ghazal …just to mention a few – all these are borrowed from India. Iskandar Shah aka Parameswara brought all these with him in 1403. The Malay Sultanate was based on the Indian sultans, maharajas and maharanis who Indira Ghandi got rid of simply because it was a sheer waste of the tax-payers money.
Sultan is an Indian word. Doa is an Indian word. All the words mentioned above originated in the India. Other ‘Malay’ words are borrowed from the English Language.
English words are ubiquitous in the ‘Malay’ Language – just insert affixes to make them all ‘Malay’ words. Then you will popularkan the 'Malay' language.
So why do you have English words in your language when you do not wish to have anything to do with that language?
Text messages to be in Malay? You have a tiny mind Zarkashi. A mind like yours is dangerous. You are a menace to the progress of your own kind. You are totally clueless and are in dire need of guidance.
But sek (sex) in any language spells the same. Sammy urges not to hisap dada. Now, that is one guy who needs to learn BM. You spew venom and mock the language that has helped the people who walk through the Corridors of Power and others like yourself who after having the rudiments of the language, do not wish to educate your own kind for fear of them being able to have a debate with you in the English Language.
You want to emulate the French, Japanese and the Koreans? Have you forgotten that these countries are industrialized? Malaysia is just about waking up and we need the English Language to progress and achieve industrialization – in perhaps 50 years. By that time the others would be 50 years ahead of us.
It is clear that you were not paying attention during History lessons. Either that or you had a moron like you for a teacher.
How on earth can you emulate these countries? You are spewing garbage. These countries are too far ahead for Malaysia to catch up with them. To emulate them would be courting with disaster. Let us progress at our own pace. What is wrong using English for the betterment of the country?
When we have ‘emulated’ what France, Japan and Korea, then perhaps we could place more importance on BM.
For the moment, we need the English Language for obvious reasons unknown to ignorant people like you.
So now we know all about delays when we write to people who hold the same policy as you – you just do not seem to comprehend the English Language – a Universal Language – and simply send the letters back to senders.
Government schools are far behind the Private schools who use English as the medium of instruction.
You seem to have a warped sense of logic – worse than Nik Aziz. Imagine you being the PM of the country!
With you at the helm, every citizen is doomed – the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Dayaks and all others. The country will inexorably be alienated from the rest of the world and will never be able to recover from your policies and the manner in which you think (?), like the interpretations of the wahabbis.
I am not in the least surprised that we have people like you serving as Deputy Ministers. So what else is new?
Even the kampong folks know how important the English Language is. This I say from personal experience and from teaching English Language in a kampong for one year. So where did you come from?
A weird culture spoken by people in this country - English Language!
Every once in while, there will surface a dullard like you with barmy ideas about what is good for this country.
Any right-thinking person will surely know that if an individual or a country wishes to progress .... be proficient in the English Language.
Bring back the old system - English as the medium of instruction in all schools - then we will progress.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Wealthy Malays are always right - A Tale of Two Cities
When shall we meet again? In thunder lightning or in rain?
Witches beget bitches and Bitches beget Witches.
The poor Malays had better shut their mouths. And if the poor Malays have to shut their mouths, the non-Malays have no say, so get out of this ‘Malay’ land or bend over backwards and keep on apologizing to these rich pricks and prudes.
You cannot teach them the difference between right and wrong and you cannot tell them that they lack the religious knowledge. You cannot reason with them and logic is a foreign word simply because these Malays believe they are above the law. They do not wish to listen to you - you are nothing but a kafir.
There was an incident lately. This wealthy Malay ( not Muslim ), who asserted her garbage and did not wish to listen to reason and logic. Imagine her vicious anger and rambling - and she talks about Islam in the same sentence!
Does Islam condone vicious verbal attacks on the elderly and educators? This toxic Malay believes so and by demonstrating her diabolical infantile behavior, she exposed herself to the fact that she was going against the very essence of the true Islamic teaching and not the wahabbi version she expounded.
An egomania on an ego trip. This cock-of-the-walk was walking tall and riding high. People like this will fall hard. She is the quintessential ungrateful Malay moron. In her case, ignorance is bliss and money is everything.
The problem lies in the fact that they seem to forget that their forefathers were kampong folks and kampong folks regarded teachers as demigods.
Then they make themselves visible in the big city and shed their kampong values and become rotten to the core. How they got rich remains a mystery. But they are rich and that is all that matters.
To them, only 'Muslims' know about Islam and a 'kafir' does not know anything about their religion. And if you talk to them about it, they either cry in shame or fume and attack you like a raging bull, not realizing that they are exposing their ignorance of their religion.
I was always brought up to respect my mother, father and my teachers. When I see my old teacher ( TTC trained ), I still address him as 'Sir'. I am more qualified than him so why should I call him so? Because he was my teacher.
To these morons who are deluded into believing they are wealthy and so they qualify to disrespect anyone, this is what I have to tell them ... go back to your kampong and you might just learn something positive, like showing respect for a teacher. You seem to conveniently forget that you are an off-spring of a kampong society ... which reminds me of something else - you can take the man out of the kampong but you cannot take the kampong out of the man.... or woman – in this case. Normally, kampong folks are a simple lot….normally.
These arrogant bigots are loosed upon the world, especially so in this country. They also set an example to their kids that they can get away with being disrespectful and hence the vicious cycle. Their children are by-products of their egotism.
Their children are sent abroad or to private schools and they believe they have fulfilled their parental obligation. They are totally ignorant of their own religion and pass that ignorance onto their children. Ah, but their children attend agama schools ( or is it lessons? ) and believe that they know it all.
You teach their children how to think for themselves and strive hard to educate them and successfully manage to make them mix with others. That much you can do. You make them sociable and bring them out of their cocoon but it's up to them who they mix with.
Sometimes you wonder if it is all worth your effort. Teaching spoilt brats is no easy task.
When I was 16, I mingled freely and I had good friends - Malays, Chinese and Indians. We always respected teachers, even if we disliked them and would never dare to complain to our parents about them.
Most kids today are a pampered lot. Some will say....spoilt brats. Though some, surprisingly, include 16 year olds too who will agree with you when you say that most kids are indeed pampered and spoilt. These are the ones who have matured and are independent - not holding on to their mothers' apron strings....like the spoilt brats. These are the ones who think for themselves. Strangely these are the Indians and Chinese. There could be some Malays too - none I have encountered yet. Well, they are 16-year-olds after all and one cannot expect these kids to think like mature adults. Heck, even some adults have this myopic view of their own religion.
These brats will never be able to stand their ground in a foreign land. They would never be able to walk in a mall without their body guards. They will need to take along the strings attached to their mothers' apron when they go abroad. They cannot see beyond their highfalutin noses.
I am not making a general statement. I am merely stating my personal experience. People like these are ubiquitous.
I am somewhat bewildered that the educated Indonesian is magnanimous. He does not have his nose pointing to the sky and he does not spew venom like the local parochial wealthy Malay schmucks who wear blinkers.
Some of these Malays wear the ‘tudung’ ( a headscarf ) and give you the middle finger when they pass you by in their fancy cars. Believe me, this is a fact and I write all this through experience.
Others without a headscarf try hard to look good but what is the point of trying to look good when you are rotten to the core inside? I saw the heavy make-up on that face of fury.
No amount of modern make-up can mask the evil on this particular amoral female's face. Her condescension knows no limits. So, can money buy everything?
So what has become of these Malays who once belonged to a polite and caring society?
They moved – away from the placid kampong ambiance into the fast track world of arrogance, polygamy, corruption, egotism and bigotry. And now they bask in this atmosphere. But for how long? They too will have to answer to their Creator.
I wonder what their defense will be. Apologize? Beg for forgiveness?
These are the corrosive misled ‘Muslims’ who give their counterparts a nasty name.
I detest such hypocritical people. They represent the evil that the society does not need and should be ostracized by all races.
This country has no place for such ‘elite’ egotists who serve to only pollute the country with their feral minds.
These are the very people we are trying very hard to jettison. The people who walk through the Corridors of Power are not alone – there are similar people who walk outside the Corridors of Power and these are insidious people are probably more dangerous to the Rakyat.
Any resemblence to person or persons is purely coincidental.
P/S Then you have people like RPK and someone else I know who puts on this facade that he is fighting for a change....a CEO....more than that....a megalomaniac. That story will be published soon.
There is still hope.
Witches beget bitches and Bitches beget Witches.
The poor Malays had better shut their mouths. And if the poor Malays have to shut their mouths, the non-Malays have no say, so get out of this ‘Malay’ land or bend over backwards and keep on apologizing to these rich pricks and prudes.
You cannot teach them the difference between right and wrong and you cannot tell them that they lack the religious knowledge. You cannot reason with them and logic is a foreign word simply because these Malays believe they are above the law. They do not wish to listen to you - you are nothing but a kafir.
There was an incident lately. This wealthy Malay ( not Muslim ), who asserted her garbage and did not wish to listen to reason and logic. Imagine her vicious anger and rambling - and she talks about Islam in the same sentence!
Does Islam condone vicious verbal attacks on the elderly and educators? This toxic Malay believes so and by demonstrating her diabolical infantile behavior, she exposed herself to the fact that she was going against the very essence of the true Islamic teaching and not the wahabbi version she expounded.
An egomania on an ego trip. This cock-of-the-walk was walking tall and riding high. People like this will fall hard. She is the quintessential ungrateful Malay moron. In her case, ignorance is bliss and money is everything.
The problem lies in the fact that they seem to forget that their forefathers were kampong folks and kampong folks regarded teachers as demigods.
Then they make themselves visible in the big city and shed their kampong values and become rotten to the core. How they got rich remains a mystery. But they are rich and that is all that matters.
To them, only 'Muslims' know about Islam and a 'kafir' does not know anything about their religion. And if you talk to them about it, they either cry in shame or fume and attack you like a raging bull, not realizing that they are exposing their ignorance of their religion.
I was always brought up to respect my mother, father and my teachers. When I see my old teacher ( TTC trained ), I still address him as 'Sir'. I am more qualified than him so why should I call him so? Because he was my teacher.
To these morons who are deluded into believing they are wealthy and so they qualify to disrespect anyone, this is what I have to tell them ... go back to your kampong and you might just learn something positive, like showing respect for a teacher. You seem to conveniently forget that you are an off-spring of a kampong society ... which reminds me of something else - you can take the man out of the kampong but you cannot take the kampong out of the man.... or woman – in this case. Normally, kampong folks are a simple lot….normally.
These arrogant bigots are loosed upon the world, especially so in this country. They also set an example to their kids that they can get away with being disrespectful and hence the vicious cycle. Their children are by-products of their egotism.
Their children are sent abroad or to private schools and they believe they have fulfilled their parental obligation. They are totally ignorant of their own religion and pass that ignorance onto their children. Ah, but their children attend agama schools ( or is it lessons? ) and believe that they know it all.
You teach their children how to think for themselves and strive hard to educate them and successfully manage to make them mix with others. That much you can do. You make them sociable and bring them out of their cocoon but it's up to them who they mix with.
Sometimes you wonder if it is all worth your effort. Teaching spoilt brats is no easy task.
When I was 16, I mingled freely and I had good friends - Malays, Chinese and Indians. We always respected teachers, even if we disliked them and would never dare to complain to our parents about them.
Most kids today are a pampered lot. Some will say....spoilt brats. Though some, surprisingly, include 16 year olds too who will agree with you when you say that most kids are indeed pampered and spoilt. These are the ones who have matured and are independent - not holding on to their mothers' apron strings....like the spoilt brats. These are the ones who think for themselves. Strangely these are the Indians and Chinese. There could be some Malays too - none I have encountered yet. Well, they are 16-year-olds after all and one cannot expect these kids to think like mature adults. Heck, even some adults have this myopic view of their own religion.
These brats will never be able to stand their ground in a foreign land. They would never be able to walk in a mall without their body guards. They will need to take along the strings attached to their mothers' apron when they go abroad. They cannot see beyond their highfalutin noses.
I am not making a general statement. I am merely stating my personal experience. People like these are ubiquitous.
I am somewhat bewildered that the educated Indonesian is magnanimous. He does not have his nose pointing to the sky and he does not spew venom like the local parochial wealthy Malay schmucks who wear blinkers.
Some of these Malays wear the ‘tudung’ ( a headscarf ) and give you the middle finger when they pass you by in their fancy cars. Believe me, this is a fact and I write all this through experience.
Others without a headscarf try hard to look good but what is the point of trying to look good when you are rotten to the core inside? I saw the heavy make-up on that face of fury.
No amount of modern make-up can mask the evil on this particular amoral female's face. Her condescension knows no limits. So, can money buy everything?
So what has become of these Malays who once belonged to a polite and caring society?
They moved – away from the placid kampong ambiance into the fast track world of arrogance, polygamy, corruption, egotism and bigotry. And now they bask in this atmosphere. But for how long? They too will have to answer to their Creator.
I wonder what their defense will be. Apologize? Beg for forgiveness?
These are the corrosive misled ‘Muslims’ who give their counterparts a nasty name.
I detest such hypocritical people. They represent the evil that the society does not need and should be ostracized by all races.
This country has no place for such ‘elite’ egotists who serve to only pollute the country with their feral minds.
These are the very people we are trying very hard to jettison. The people who walk through the Corridors of Power are not alone – there are similar people who walk outside the Corridors of Power and these are insidious people are probably more dangerous to the Rakyat.
Any resemblence to person or persons is purely coincidental.
P/S Then you have people like RPK and someone else I know who puts on this facade that he is fighting for a change....a CEO....more than that....a megalomaniac. That story will be published soon.
There is still hope.
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