When the Malays voted for the opposition coalition, they are labelled as unpatriotic in the narrow and shortsighted view of the 84 years old Umno veteranTan Sri Abdul Aziz Tapa.
While I respect Abdul Aziz as one of the nationalists who fought for the Malaya's independence, it does not mean that his old and obsolete ideology of yesterday has any relevancy in today's ideology of "Malaysia for all Malaysians"- the real sense of patriotism, when people in the world recognise you as only Malaysian and not Malays, Chinese, Indians or other races in the narrowest sense of racism or apartheid.
Maybe we can not blame him to denounce that Malays are unpatriotic as his old reminiscence of his history to fight for Malays rights had been deeply engraved in his soul that he has yet to accept tha new ideology of patriotism in its realistic sense.
Mind you, the Malays younger generations are now more ever ready to compete on an equal footings with other races in any aspects, be it politics, education, job advancements and economy.
They want also a fair and square distributions of wealths among Malaysians; they want to do away with the "UMNO's Rich men club"; they despise acronyism and nepotism; all in all, they want to bring back the very spirit of NEP, that is, the eradication of poverty for all races and the assurance of equal distribution of wealth among fellow Malaysians in the spirit of Federal constituitions.
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