Tanah Tumpah Darahku

Malays, Chinese, Indians... these are basically the core of Tanah Melayu, and later Malaysia (including the community of Sabah and Sarawak). This Month of August represent the Independence of Malaya in 1957, later followed by the Malaysian Federation (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak) in 1963. It has been those many years Malaysia has now seen itself standing as a nation of people of various ethnicity, race, religion and background. With the political turmoil of Malaysia today, this has tested the years that have passed by without really working out a formula that will maintain stability of the differences between racial and religious issue. I believe that 2008 is not like 1969, because some of us have come to live together and understand one another, but still this only is true for a small percentage of Malaysia. Distrust is still strong. Integration of racial and religious understanding is still possible, but will take time, but it all depends on how well the leadership is in providing the initial requirement of integration. Integration starts at early age, and will take a life time to see its result. The National School was a good tool which was not put to good use. Because of its inefficiency, parents gets annoyed and send them to other forms of school, in the end, the targeted integration fails (not in totality..but it shows there are still loopholes).

Coming to a certain unification point will take time, but i am totally confident that each Malaysian have a love for this country "Tanah tumpah darahku". We should be starting to learn about each other, religion, ethnicity and etc, so we become to respect one another. When there is respect, surely there will be less quarrellings. We should as a nation, stop for a while, and look at ourselves in the month of Independence, and ask ourselves, what do we really want?