A subliminal invasion of our ethics..

I was in the LRT about 3 weeks back carrying out my usual commute back home after college. Like most times i was accompanied by Kabin and Chins(my classmates) up to KL Sentral. On the opposite side of where we were sitting, there was this lady with her daughter(who was around her early 20's i suppose) overhearing my conversation with Kabin and Chins and of course like always, we were talking about local politics.

After KL Sentral, the lady, after saying some very nice things about my conversation with Kabin, commented that to be fair, people shouldn't be constantly bringing the government down and that we should also put the private sector under the same scrutiny that we put the government in. I didn't really understand her point so she clarified by saying that even the private sectors have biasness when employing, for eg. many local graduates don't get a job although they're well qualified for it. So i replied by saying that a job doesn't only require one to have the paper qualifications but communication skills (most prominently the mastery of certain languages especially English) is also a much sought after criteria and many graduates, sadly, lack to fulfill that criteria. She then rebutted by saying "But those people employed by the private sector can hardly speak English when there are many graduates from the local universities who have proper command of the language being rejected the job" and she went on giving more examples corroborating her point. However as our conversation(which soon turned out to be a debate) carried on, i found that she was actually expressing her dissatisfaction against private organizations which are mostly owned and managed by non-Bumi's being unfair to those Bumi's who, although are very well qualified(yes who also speak English perfectly), are rejected jobs and etc offered by the private organizations. Instead, those jobs are handed over to the non-Bumi who are hardly qualified. Of course the lady didn't deny that the government sectors plays the same game just that instead of favoring the non-Bumi, they favor the Bumi but her point was to prove that the private sector does the same thing hence to be fair, private sectors shouldn't be left out of the bashing when we get mad at the government for giving Bumi's special treatment.

I totally agree with her but looking deeper into the situation, we should ask "what caused such a frame of mind in all Malaysians, both in the private sector or the government sector?". This brings me back to one of my earlier entries entitled R-A-C-I-S-M is not how we spell cronyism .
Most, if not all, Malaysians face the racial marginalization demon not necessarily because we are naturally that way but because of the conditions and the factors that shape our lifestyle which can ultimately dictate our attitudes towards a certain subject. What i mean is the policies, not forgetting the other factors which usually go unnoticed, have caused us to behave this way. As sad as it sounds, its true. Those in authority have ingeniously devised plots to cloud our minds so that we remain divided and they in turn sustain control over us. Hence the only way to break out of these shackles is to enter an age of "Renaissance".Before we can break this vicious cycle of biasness and etc we need to be aware of the factors which allows the cycle to go on. In my opinion it all starts with the attitudes and mind frames we have in us.

The problem though was that the lady just wouldn't let me convey my argument. She kept cutting me off when i was trying to prove my point almost as if she felt like i was disagreeing with her because i didn't really understand her, when that's not the situation. I did understand what she was saying and yes i did agree with her but i was merely trying to express how i look at it and what i feel is the reason behind such unfairness. Hahaha...it was a classic case of misunderstanding but no hard feelings taken. I enjoyed the debate nonetheless.