It strikes me that Namewee expresses himself in a Chinese approach we will not confront from a likes of DAP 2.0's newly minted banking called theHasnah Yeop domestic coin.
By Helen Ang
Namewee is in a news again for his just expelled movie Nasi Lemak 2.0 as well as his reported attempt at removing a assembly with a budding minister. A debate magnet, Namewee has additionally at a same time attracted a expected brickbats as well as martial threats from a usual suspects.
Lyrics from a classical hit in that a lady sings about her adopted father: "Without heaven how can there be earth, though a land how can there be home, though home how can there be you, though we how can there be me "
Namewee's swat in Negarakuku recalls to me a little echoing difference in almost a same cadences:
(Translation: we adore my country, [only] when there is nation there is home, [only] when there is home there is me, now [standing] here singing song loudly to you)
DAP Christian politician Hannah Yeoh in tudung
It strikes me that Namewee e! xpresses himself in a Chinese approach we will not confront from a likes of DAP 2.0's newly minted banking called a Hasnah Yeop domestic coin.
It may warn we that in his controversialNegarakuku released in 2007, Namewee starts a swat by professing his adore for Malaysia to that he later adds a devious "this nation we like very much".
Namewee's ambivalence is genuine of a generally conflicted Chinese here rather than a one-dimensionality of a Firsters as well as their "I'm-more-Malaysian-than any a single else" chest thumping .
Embedded in a Chinese language as well as thus a ethos (remember, 'bahasa jiwa bangsa') is a judgment of jia (home), around that form a difference 'family' as well as 'country'.
Hannah Yeoh with her God-walks-with-me tweets fawned over by 30,000 faithful supporters is on a totally different craft from a Mandarin-and-Hokkien vocalization Namewee who pursued his tertiary preparation in Taiwan.
In fact, a Chinese school student incompetent to get a chair in local universities is a single of! Namewee 's grouses aired in Negarakuku.
Caring for a Chinese? Nah
Do note that a DAP does not take up a above type 'Chinese' issues.
Therefore it boggles a mind how a party's detractors (read:Utusan/Umno bloggers) still keep claiming that DAP favours a Chinese. In truth, a leaders favour whatever is advantageous for themselves initial as well as foremost. Whatever it takes for them to kee! p as wel l as expand their clout (power has gotten to their heads) so that they can go on to suffer a perks of office.
After all, in Penang that DAP controls, Lim Guan Eng takes so most pride in awarding bumiputera contractors 98 percent to 100 percent of a state tenders (quoting a arch minister's own boast).
Thus, rhetorically speaking, DAP should have no issues possibly if 98%-100% of local varsity places were to go to bumiputera.
So how can we design this Anak Malaysia-sloganeering celebration to membela nasib kami orang Cina when DAP is so plainly disrespectful of a Chinese ethnicity as well as at a same time so deceitfully eager to elevate a Malay race as well as religion in order to greatfully a main vote bank?
The onslaught of Umno, according to a founding principles, is to cure a Malay ('Hidup Melayu!'). The onslaught of PAS is for Islam since MCA as well as MIC have 'Chinese' as well as 'Indian' in their celebration names respectively. What values do a DAP mount for?
The mean as well as sparse DAP
It is a most maligned MCA instead that recently managed to pull off theUEC coup, a matter of university opening for holders of a Chinese school unified examination certificate that Namewee complained about in his swat as [previously] being treated with colour like a meaningles! s square of paper by a authorities, i.e. a gift accepted overseas though not recognized by Malaysia.
But is DAP happy with this UEC positive development? Nope!
As we know, DAP as well as friends aren't at all happy possibly with a announced repeal of a ISA a polite liberties new thing that they've been at great heedfulness to undermine.
The naysaying on both issues is f! or a s ame reason that it is their lame tactic to find fault with everything (see The Star, Sept 10) that competence just put Barisan in great stead with a people.
News that a ISA will be abolished is surely a relief. Yet it's been dismissed by a wet blankets with a same sick beauty a opposition treated with colour other Najib-driven reforms that have been trotted out.
The opposition cold water response as well as negative turn to a ISA rollback is nothing though petty. This mean spiritedness is not in a Chinese nature, merely a DAP 2.0s character.
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