therefore if this form of education continues to exist it would only create racial tension where failure of communication between major races in Malaysia would be more apparent.

For me the government should turn all these vernacular schools into National school let this new form of school structure alow understanding of racial unity, sense of quid pro quo, enforcing good knowledge of Malaysia’s languange and culture.

One of the most disapointing evindence is that all this chinese propagating equality and Malaysian Malaysia have week command of Bahasa Malaysia, even so to the extend of knowing nothing about Malaysia’s history.

So by that means how could we justify them to be trully Malaysian.

how could we justify that they deserve to be granted equal rights when they still have ethnic egos and ignorance to assimilate.

how could we justify they are true people of this land when they feel ashamed and dogmatic againts other race in Malaysia too.

Here you cant just blame the malays or any other races

Here the vernacular school should actually be blame, under the Schedule 3 of the Barnes Report 1951, the british higlight that vernacular schools should seize to exist when there is sufficient national schools.as the continuence of the medium would only create racial polarization.

Today the failure to adhere to such advice have created overwhelming racial problems in our country.

Its okay to retains one’s culture but the encouragement of a more unified national culture is more important.

If ur so worried about not being chinese anymore than Malaysia shouldnt be ur homeland

This is a place for people who really wants to be Malaysian first, race or ethnic culture second

i’m not sure if i got you here… are you saying then that chinese students will be better off studying in a public or english medium school from the very start?

thanks for the lovely article!

trixie

eN: Are we really under democratic rules? Take ISA for example.

I believe in “Freedom of Speech”. Everyone should be allowed to speak out their thoughts no matter it is against yours or not. And Malaysia is nowhere near to that stage yet. Well, hopefully one day.

As Vinnan says, a lot depends on the home background and the attitude in the families towards languages. When it is solely MANDARIN in the home, no need to say other languages, even our CHINESE dialects will die out one by one…and people do not realise that the CHINESE dialects form our Chinese culture – be it Foochow, Hokkien, Cantonese etc. and when they die out, our Chinese culture dies out as well. Mandarin is just a language!

So whose fault is it when kids fail to go anywhere in the Chinese education system? The parents are at fault. They think their kids are just as pig headed as them when it comes to learning languages. They do not understand kids ave an incredible capacity to absorb languages. How dare we compare our kepala batu to that of kids who are still pliable. Today my kids surf the internet in English, uses prmarily Chinese in school and are fully functional in Malay.

Please tell all Chinese school parents who refuses to understand the wonders of being trilingual that we are not in FUCKING CHINA. Chinese education in Malaysia is not education in the People’s Republic of China. In a multi-racial setting like Malaysia the Chinese must understand that the Chinese language is just a small part of a very big picture. Then there will be no need for Chinese kids to be tortured as they go up the education ladder.