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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
A MELAYU COMMENTS, THANK YOU....
A Malay friend of mine sent me this email after he saw my previous posting. Pheww, berapi-api dia. Katanya dia baru je balik dari upacara pelancaran Kembara Merdeka di RTM, so masih dalam mood bersemangat la agaknya.
"Would bashing other Malays differentiate ourselves in any way? Are we any better? Or are we bashing them to make ourselves feel better, that we are not like them?
Fikir-fikirkanlah...we might not do those things in the puisi but are we any better just because of that?
The problem with some Malays is that by bashing other Malays they somehow feel superior than the people they're bashing. But would that contribute to improving the Malays as a whole? Please lah tengok diri sendiri dulu. Kutuk mengutuk won't improve anything.
Improve our own self and everthing else will fall in place."
OK lah, point taken. I suppose I should have explained my objective of posting that poem. It's not untuk kutuk-mengutuk or to bash my own people, but more sekadar untuk berkongsi pandangan penulis poem tersebut. Penulis mengatakan yang dia menulis untuk ingat-mengingati sesama kita.
Tapi itulah. Most of the time, the truth hurts, kan?
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