1Malaysia

It’s Malaysia’s 52nd Independence Day anniversary. I am quite patriotic about my country tho honestly speaking I lack in a sense of nationalism. Anyway, it’s good to have some passion such as this as people today tend to have something like globalization and things like that. Truly, that’s not really a brand new idea. It’s been there even before the birth of Jesus, long before that actually. Yet, racial differences still there up until now. It’s not a matter who’s the first to set foot on the soil, don’t you think? Anyway, I watched 1957 Hati Malaya movie last night. For me, it’s a nice movie. While some of scenes kinda rushed but it covered several important part such as the idea of unification with Indonesia for Melayu Raya, the differences between H.S. Lee and Tan Cheng Lock, Dato’ Onn and Tunku Abdul Rahman, British’s Malayan Union and many more. Since I’ve been reading biography of Dato’ Onn, it was his idea to create a unified party that consists various races into the original UMNO then the idea actually being materialized during the alliances of UMNO-MCA some after he leaved the party. Since then. we all know the things happened from that day until today and more stuffs. We can talk much about it but I’d rather not. Datuk Seri Najib’s idea of 1Malaysia is not really that new to me. Just something old that being added with new name. One can say, it’s just a propaganda. However, it is important. The idea of Malaysia is integration between her people. We, Malaysians, are not gonna be like Indonesia where her people went through assimilation and ignoring cultures. Both have pros and cons tho I agree even after 50 years, it’s still not that mature enough. Yeah, both nations still having its own problems. Now for Malaysia, I am wishing more interrelationship between races and cultures. 1Malaysia doesn’t mean that you can build a religious site anywhere without the concern of the locals.