Killing Our Nation's Future
Read this link.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/6/8/nation/11158816&sec=nation
I'm amazed that year after year, something like this could happen. Not to average kids, but our brightest and sometimes, most well-rounded too. Not to the children of the rich, but of the not-so-rich or poor.
It's like a program where we punish our brightest and force them to look for scholarships in Singapore, or other countries. Or deny them access to local universities and force their cash-strapped parents to mortgage everything they have, for tertiary education. (While some rich Tan Sri's son or daughter gets a cozy scholarship to the UK,...)
We saddle them and their families with huge banks debts, early on their careers, despite the fact that they've done everything required for them, to probably succeed in another country. But not Malaysia.
And yet everyday, our PM tells us to be proud of this nation. Ministers are now telling us to sing the national anthem in cinemas now, to instill patriotism.
These kids have done everything, that they feel that their family and country would require of them. They want to belong and to be recognized for their achievements, in the country in which they were born, and have lived all their lives in.
They accept the difficult Malaysian realities and they know that they have to be the best, to be rewarded. And they didn't ask any favours from our local MPs or Ministers. They went out there and strived to be the best. And they achieved just that.
And every year, there will be more than a handful of our educated best, that will feel that nothing will help them, because they are just not of the right race. Despite having achieved the best of what's possible. This country tells them to be proud of being Malaysians, but there are elements in the civil service that refuses to recognize and give them their due, as the academically best of Malaysians.
No amount of singing, will make this sort of treatment to our best, less repulsive. No amount of singing, will get them to be more patriotic, as they are deprived of all channels to be justly recognized and rewarded, for their efforts. No amount of singing, will make them feel less unwanted, by the Government of this country.
Isn't it ridiculous for us to be singing the national anthem, when we betray the spirit of the song, in broad daylight? It's like observing patriotism more in its breach, than its observance.
What is the point, if we cannot live by the lyrics of Negaraku which says - "Rakyat hidup, bersatu dan maju"? And yet, there are elements in the civil service that erodes that patriotism every year and works to send out a strong big signal in neon lights, to some of our brightest that says "this country does not appreciate you and you will never be an equal".
It's probably the first step to encouraging them to leave our shores - to make them feel like their patriotism is worth nothing and this country does not value, nor recognize them.
Perhaps the scholarship department of the Public Services Department should be called PDD (Public Disservice Department) instead. Because they're certainly not doing this country any favours, by treating our brightest like this.
Shame on you, PSD. Shame on you.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/6/8/nation/11158816&sec=nation
I'm amazed that year after year, something like this could happen. Not to average kids, but our brightest and sometimes, most well-rounded too. Not to the children of the rich, but of the not-so-rich or poor.
It's like a program where we punish our brightest and force them to look for scholarships in Singapore, or other countries. Or deny them access to local universities and force their cash-strapped parents to mortgage everything they have, for tertiary education. (While some rich Tan Sri's son or daughter gets a cozy scholarship to the UK,...)
We saddle them and their families with huge banks debts, early on their careers, despite the fact that they've done everything required for them, to probably succeed in another country. But not Malaysia.
And yet everyday, our PM tells us to be proud of this nation. Ministers are now telling us to sing the national anthem in cinemas now, to instill patriotism.
These kids have done everything, that they feel that their family and country would require of them. They want to belong and to be recognized for their achievements, in the country in which they were born, and have lived all their lives in.
They accept the difficult Malaysian realities and they know that they have to be the best, to be rewarded. And they didn't ask any favours from our local MPs or Ministers. They went out there and strived to be the best. And they achieved just that.
And every year, there will be more than a handful of our educated best, that will feel that nothing will help them, because they are just not of the right race. Despite having achieved the best of what's possible. This country tells them to be proud of being Malaysians, but there are elements in the civil service that refuses to recognize and give them their due, as the academically best of Malaysians.
No amount of singing, will make this sort of treatment to our best, less repulsive. No amount of singing, will get them to be more patriotic, as they are deprived of all channels to be justly recognized and rewarded, for their efforts. No amount of singing, will make them feel less unwanted, by the Government of this country.
Isn't it ridiculous for us to be singing the national anthem, when we betray the spirit of the song, in broad daylight? It's like observing patriotism more in its breach, than its observance.
What is the point, if we cannot live by the lyrics of Negaraku which says - "Rakyat hidup, bersatu dan maju"? And yet, there are elements in the civil service that erodes that patriotism every year and works to send out a strong big signal in neon lights, to some of our brightest that says "this country does not appreciate you and you will never be an equal".
It's probably the first step to encouraging them to leave our shores - to make them feel like their patriotism is worth nothing and this country does not value, nor recognize them.
Perhaps the scholarship department of the Public Services Department should be called PDD (Public Disservice Department) instead. Because they're certainly not doing this country any favours, by treating our brightest like this.
Shame on you, PSD. Shame on you.
posted by Stingrayz | 7:56 AM
1 Comments:
The latest is that some of the students will get their scholarship from PSD, after the Prime Minister's intervention.
I'm really happy for them, but it's still amazing that the Prime Minister has to intervene for these kids to get their due. More so, when this becomes an annual circus.
It makes a mockery of the civil service - for the PM to be running it like a mandur, running a rubber estate.
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