Blaming other races will not solve issued faced by the Malays, says the premier in his latest blog post.
Blaming the other races would not solve issues faced by the Malays, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said. In a blog post today, he said the Malays should realise that they are in their predicament today because they did not want to work, unlike the others including foreigners who are now thronging the country for jobs.
"The Malays should have realised what has happened to them. But sadly they still haven't. Until today the Malays still haven't realised. They still don't want to work. "The Malays continue to leave all the hard work to be done by foreigners, and the foreigners are now flooding our country. Seven million foreigners are here today. They are working. "What will happen to the Malays? Surely what had happened before this to the country and to the Malays would continue.' . What masters? The poor, unskilled, and depending on the mercy of others, are they theIn his article, the Bersatu chairperson touched on his observation of the different races in the Malay States of Malaya when they were still under British rule. He said when the British opened rubber plantations and tin mines, only the Chinese and Indians wanted to work in these places. The Chinese also, he added, would be the only ones to operate convenience stores and businesses that offered skilled jobs. The Malays, said Mahathir, only wanted to work their own paddy fields while a small number became fishermen. Some of them worked in the government as clerks, while much fewer held important posts in the government then."What we could not find were Malays who operated businesses or worked as labourers. The Malays looked down on these jobs. "Because of this attitude, there were not many Malays who lived in towns. And during that time, towns were built and filled by the Chinese. There were no Malay shops. There were several eateries and spice shops owned by the Indians." Mahathir added that the Malays then were happy to see the dangerous, dirty and heavy jobs done by the Chinese and Indians, who were then the foreigners at the Tanah Melayu. He said that from his observation, the Malays were not even worried about seeing the foreigners developing their livelihoods and wealth, because they believed that their state will continue as theirs. "But their expectation was wrong. Because they were not willing to work hard, not willing to be involved in doing business seriously, they continue to be poor. "The economic gap between them and the other races who worked hard and operated businesses continue to widen. What happened is that the rich become richer, while the poor Malays continue to be poor," he said.
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