Comments on Chinese taken out of context by Utusan, says historian

By Emily Ding
May 10, 2013

KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Khoo Kay Kim has pronounced which his comments reported upon Utusan Malaysias front page currently fiercely criticising a Chinese village for its clever secular sentiment had been taken out of context.

Khoo pronounced a Umno-owned broadsheet had used his words in an article headlined Suara tokoh Cina to have it seem as if he was critical usually of a Chinese, when in actuality he had been broadly discussing ethnic family in a nation as well as had criticised all races for being as well inward-looking.

I get a impression from what you review in Utusan which what you told them was something very critical of a Chinese, though you didnt say usually a Chinese, Khoo (picture) told The Malaysian Insider.

I pronounced which each ethnic group still tends to look during itself as well as does not assimilate each other. Its not usually a Chinese though a Malays as well as Indians too, he explained.

Utusan Malaysia reported which Khoo had pronounced a Chinese do not assimilate a significance of togetherness as their secular sentiments still bake clever given a village initial came to Malaya.

Many among them do not consider of Malaysia as their own country; instead they regularly feel similar to they are being colonised, he had been quoted as saying by a newspaper.

Khoo told The Malaysian Insider which a secular complaint had not changed given British colonial times, as well as which a miss of understanding between opposite races in a nation was not simply a legacy of a Britishs purported divide as well as rule practice, though due to Malaysians themselves.

People here someway never learnt to assimilate one another, he said.

I give you one example. You go to a! popular grill as well as you see assorted ethnic groups there though as you come in you can see one table, one ethnic group.

He pronounced a detonate among opposite ethnic groups in Malaysia was due to their miss of believe about their own country, as well as due which a preparation system contingency be reformed to change a situation.

I have suggested many, most times which a usually approach you can bring about change is by a younger generation, so a preparation system contingency residence a problem. But our preparation system does not residence a problem, it emphasises scoring high grades in examinations, he said.

Utusan Malaysia has been using reports which appear to censure a Chinese for Barisan Nasionals (BN) ancestral waste in Election 2013 after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak dubbed a May 5 general choosing a Chinese tsunami.

Utusan Malaysia has additionally pounded a DAP, saying which a Pakatan Rakyat (PR) member partys alleged campaign to boar hatred against BN justified a newspapers incendiary title upon Tuesday, Apa lagi Cina mahu? (What more do a Chinese want?).

Analysts, however, have remarkable which BNs lifeless performance in Election 2013 was not simply a result of a Chinese pitch towards PR, though additionally because of a middle-class as well as urban mass departure from a bloc which serve widened a urban-rural rift.

BN took a severe violence this turn as well as bled more seats during both a federal as well as state levels compared to 2008, leaving it with usually 133 federal seats as well as 275 out of a 505 total state seats, notwithstanding wresting behind Kedah from PR.

The ruling bloc additionally mislaid a popular opinion to a opposition.