As my wife used to say, 'How can we not be racialist in Malaysia, when everywhere we go or whatever we do is based on race?' So you will find analyses on the by-election are along racial lines too!
Many people think that Dr Chua had the support of Umno to be able to depose Ong Tee Keat as President of MCA. He was the one who started to unravel the PKFZ mess which would implicate Umno. Many also think that Dr Chua would have to toe the line because of his sexual indiscretion on disc. Ong Ka Ting left because MCA lost too many parliamentary and state seats during his presidency and his comeback attempt failed.
I am afraid race-based parties are becoming uncool and if the 2008 general elections were anything to go by, the writings are on the wall that MCA will lose further support. Am I right to say that MCA did not go all out in this by-election? I believe more Chinese are supportive of Pakatan Rakyat's struggle for change, based on the fact that with change, we cannot do any worse than how we had been treated all these years.
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The Government tried to unite the races in Malaysia as one, Malaysians. But the Chinese and Indians insist on Chinese School and Tamil schools. Singapore has no Chinese Schools or Tamil Schools, so as Indonesia. Now in that countries, all become Singaporeans and Indonesians. You go to Indonesia, how united and tolerate the Indonesians are between the Javanese, Sundas, Bataks, Minagkabaus, Chinese, Tomorese etc. They give way to each other on the road. In Malaysia? Would you give way to a Malay? No way Jose! Every race think they are superior than the other. The bottom line is the school. We may get the result in 20 or 30 years time if we start from now. The problem again is the Politicians. We are not heading anywhere until the very day when it explode. By then its too late to look back.
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