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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (48675)	4/19/2004 12:06:16 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Hi malcolm You need to see the place to appreciate the positive side and see tnegative as the price to pay. <<1. You can't get places with a business unless you appoint some bumiputra(man of the soil, means Malay) as titular head or vice-head. He doesn't have to do anything but show his ethnic flag. It's a make work scheme. Chinese businessmen have to put up with it.>> This is the device to avoid an Indonesian situation where by the Chinese left to compete with the Indonesians will eat them for breakfast. That causes a lot of ressentment since the Chinese are seen as scapegoats. Price to pay for social peace. <<2. Rule of Law!? Ask that poor political leader who has been imprisoned for years on trumped up charges of homosexuality. His real crime was wanting to point out corruption; he thereby represented a threat to Mahathir.>> All countries have a way to get rid of undesirables. In the US running away from Vietnam war, being caught with a beauty on his lap, have been drunk or smoking but not inhaling is the way to get rid of the guy you don't want to get the power. In Malaysia they haven;t mastered that yet and are too crude. <<3. A few decades ago mass murders of Chinese, a la Indonesia occurred in Malaysia. I don't know if that is still the case.>> In Malaysia due to the positive discrimnation of the Pribumis they don;t go for the Chineses throats. <<4. I heard Chinese are discriminated against in connection with entrance to national universities. (Maybe Chinese have an unfair advantage --- they study too hard.)>> Yes. again positive discrimination to avoid the Chinese take over all the seats available at universities paid by the whole population via taxes. Chinese with good grades have to give way to Pribumis with lower grades and have to go to private universities. The job market undo this since the pribumis have to get government jobs and the best jobs are taken by the Chinese. Again social peace has its costs.