KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 Malaysians contingency put impression as well as competence upon top of race before a nation can overcome its shortcomings as well as thrive amid greater competition worldwide, Lim Guan Eng said.
The DAP secretary-general pronounced that while a nation has done most economic swell since independence, a time has come for Malaysians to abandon failed policies in foster of new ones to set up better prospects as well as hope for a next era for a challenges of globalisation.
We contingency stir upon a young that there is no substitute for competence. Neither is there any pick to innovation as well as creativity as a roadmap towards high-income status. But initial you contingency be gentle as Malaysians, Lim (picture) pronounced in his National Day message today.
There contingency be a clarity of Malaysian temperament that what you have been is some-more critical than who you are; that a content of a impression is some-more critical than a colour of a skin as well as that how you bond with alternative Malaysians is some-more critical than a past ancestry.
Malaysians need to know how to hold upon to critical ethnic identities while still identifying strongly with a inhabitant temperament that binds a nation together, a same singular challenge faced by a founding fathers decades ago, he said.
He lamented that a energy as well as leisure to be masters of a own destiny postulated by autonomy have been abused to instil fear between Malaysians that their secular temperament as well as rights will be taken away if a inhabitant temperament formed upon freedom, justice as well as equivalence were to take root.
The consistent marker as well as importance upon bogeymen, be it sure antithesis domestic parties, communists or Christians, is a transparent proof that a goal of 1 Malaysia still eludes us.
In fact, to most ! 1 Malays ia sounds too most similar to an empty slogan devoid of substance, he said, adding that a politics of fear appears to have turn some-more hackneyed after a 2008 general election that saw a antithesis sweep five states.
Lim hoped Malaysians would once again find a dignified bravery as well as strength of impression to confirm what it is to be indeed Malaysian despite a race-first views promoted by groups similar to Perkasa as well as irresponsible newspapers similar to Utusan Malaysia.
But Malaysians contingency initial have an sourroundings where simple freedoms have been reputable as well as protected to do this, he forked out, observant that a Jul 9 Bersih rally was an example of how a pull to strengthen a freedoms had resulted in a spontaneous coming together of Malaysians from all races.
Here, a assertion of a simple right a leisure to assemble that was betrothed by Tunku Abdul Rahman during his Merdeka remarks upon August 31, 1957, was asserted together with a strong display of solidarity between Malaysians. This is a kind of Malaysian temperament that needs to be inculcated in us, especially between a younger generation.
We contingency be Malaysian initial always as well as Malays, Chinese, Indian, Kadazan, Iban second. Selamat Hari Merdeka to all Malaysians as well as to all Malaysians looking a Malaysianness within, Lim said.
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