Is Chinese being marginalized in Malaysia?

Last Friday, Singapore Mentor Minister Lee Kuan Yew has commented that Chinese in Malaysia (and also Indonesia) were being marginalized systematically.

Lee must have said this to serve his party’s agenda, i.e. to influence Singaporean Chinese to support PAP so that his party could continue to rule Singapore. But I’m afraid what he has said was not very far from the truth in Malaysia.

Gerakan’s outgoing chief Lim Keng Yaik and his heir apparent Koh Tsu Koon have no credibility to tell Kuan Yew off as their party, Gerakan, is being marginalised by their own partners in the Barisan Nasional coalition, i.e.UMNO and MCA.

If Keng Yaik is true to himself, he should know more than anybody else that how Chinese were being marginalized in this country.

As a long-serving minister, I believe he knows exactly how the non-Malays were being discriminated and marginalized under the New Economic Policy(NEP). And looks like the non-Malays will be haunted by the NEP for many more years to come if people like Khairy Jamaluddin and Hishamuddin Hussein continue to have their say.

Keng Yaik should know how the Chinese schools were being marginalized in this country.If UMNO continues to push for the 2–4–3 formula and finally decided to hold examinations only in English for Maths and Science come 2008, that will be the end-of-the-road for Chinese schools in Malaysia.