YOURSAY ‘There is no point in appealing to one's ethnic roots if one is fair.’
Zahid flexes Mandarin skills to woo Chinese
Vijay47: Hello peng yiew, lu kong ami (my friend, what are you saying)? Cunning, viciousness, and unfairness is so entrenched in you, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, that nothing you say will hide the stripes you wear.
Is saying a few words in Mandarin or Tamil supposed to indicate what a swell ‘multi-racial’ guy you are?
Your sitting on a stool eating bak kut teh and drinking Chinese tea would not draw you closer to being a friend of the Chinese nor eating idlis and drinking moru make you a snehithan of the Indians.
Tough luck, Zahid, too much water has flowed below your bridge to make us ever change our opinion of you.
Incidentally, since this is a family website, I refrain from exhibiting my grasp of other choice Hokkien and Cantonese words.
Daniel: I can recite the same few things in English, Malay, a few Chinese dialects, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, German and, if I put my mind to it, maybe Spanish and French, too.
By your reasoning, I am miles better qualified than you to be the deputy prime minister (DPM)?
Telestai!: Zahid, even if you could recite ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, I'll still not trust you. Why? Because you have shown your true colours, just like your boss.
SteveOh: All those humbug politicians who use race to curry favour with a certain community when it is expedient are the reason why race is still such a divisive issue.
There is no point in appealing to one's ethnic roots or connections if one is fair and does not champion one race over others.
The notion someone from your own race is a natural champion of your ethnic community is a myth. Lim Guan Eng and Ridhuan Tee Abdullah are examples. One championed the plight of someone from another race and the other castigated his own race.
If a politician is sincere, race should not matter. Those who have to appeal to their race to win support from their race are obviously desperate.
Boiling Mud: You may have even a truckload of Chinese foster parents till kingdom come, it doesn't make you a better person than you are, right?
Nil: Orang Malaysia Cina juga boleh bercakap bahasa Melayu. Jadi apa yang begitu besar tentang anda bercakap bahasa Cina?
SusahKes: So this is what it means by lip service, only the mouth moves, the heart is still stuck with the ‘ketuanan’ mentality.
His boss did a lion dance act, gave ang pow packets and he was still rejected in the last general election. The next day, he uttered his infamous Chinese tsunami remark.
Trust Zahid at your own risk.
Liujinzhong: Li (courtesy; kesopanan), Yi (righteousness; keadilan), Lian (honesty; kejujuran), Chi (self-esteem; keaiban).
These four Chinese letters appear as school mottos for many Chinese schools in Malaysia. Learn it and tell other Umno people to learn the same. By the way, please stop issuing warnings to people.
Speaking Sense: The mentality of this man to think the Chinese community can be so easily fooled. Leaders are judged by the pattern of their speech and actions, not by a few superficial phrases in any language.
Whiteman: How to say 'Apa lagi Cina mau?' in Chinese?
Grave concerns among dons and intellectuals
Fair Play: Never in the short history of our nation has the ruling elites headed by Umno faced such strong headwinds as they do now. Change or be changed appears to be the only option left.
James_3392: Umno must answer - does it make sense that to protect one person, the whole party and potentially the whole country goes down the drain? Does Umno realise that to prolong this crisis works perfectly well to the political plan of its opponents?
Under such a scandal, without the culprit being held accountable, how could our PM, ministers, senior civil servants, top bankers and business captains face their foreign counterparts in any international meetings?
In short, are we not becoming a pariah state?
Hplooi: The academics and intellectuals are right. The main issue is not the RM2.6 billion but the unsustainable debt burden created by 1MDB and off-loaded onto the long-suffering Malaysian taxpayers.
Anonymous_1396435522: What's required is a silent initiative to gather the required signatures for the memorandum from the public to display how we are not ignorant and can't keep being kept in the dark.
A signature campaign would start the ball rolling. Street demonstrations won't help. Be smart.
Money for Money: We don’t need a coup, but what we need is a good government, all the present ministers must go.
Snake-in-the-Grass: Wolves in the captain's cabin, chickens in the passenger lounge, barking dogs outside. But where's the real hero for ‘Mission Impossible - Rogue Wolves of Damnation Street’?
And now, the end is near, I did it her way.
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