Gerakan Youth: Give 3rd generation non-Malays bumi status
PETALING JAYA (June 13, 2010): Kedah Gerakan Youth hopes the government would consider categorising all Malaysians born in the country as bumiputra in the near future, regardless of their ancestors’ country of origin.
Kedah Gerakan Youth head Tan Keng Liang said many Chinese and Indian families have lived in this country for more than 100 years, and have contributed to Malaysia’s development, including liberalising our country from the British Empire in 1957.
“Most have not set foot in their ancestors’ country of origin and may not even have contacts with anybody in those countries,” he said in reference to a recent statement by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz that some 60,000 Siamese in the peninsula are categorised as and enjoy bumiputra rights like the Malays.
“To them, the only country associated with their life is Malaysia,” Tan said in a statement yesterday.
He hoped the government would consider categorising all non-Malay Malaysians as bumiputra if they are born in Malaysia and their parents and grandparents are Malaysians, Tan said.
This move would be in the spirit of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib abdul Razak’s “1Malaysia” concept, he added.
The recognition of non-Malays' status as bumiputra would be the best appraisal by the Barisan Nasional government on the contribution of non-Malays to the country’s development, he said
In time, he said, racial differences would no longer be a barrier towards unity and there would no longer be the issue of any racial discrimination, he said.-- theSun
PETALING JAYA (June 13, 2010): Kedah Gerakan Youth hopes the government would consider categorising all Malaysians born in the country as bumiputra in the near future, regardless of their ancestors’ country of origin.
Kedah Gerakan Youth head Tan Keng Liang said many Chinese and Indian families have lived in this country for more than 100 years, and have contributed to Malaysia’s development, including liberalising our country from the British Empire in 1957.
“Most have not set foot in their ancestors’ country of origin and may not even have contacts with anybody in those countries,” he said in reference to a recent statement by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz that some 60,000 Siamese in the peninsula are categorised as and enjoy bumiputra rights like the Malays.
“To them, the only country associated with their life is Malaysia,” Tan said in a statement yesterday.
He hoped the government would consider categorising all non-Malay Malaysians as bumiputra if they are born in Malaysia and their parents and grandparents are Malaysians, Tan said.
This move would be in the spirit of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib abdul Razak’s “1Malaysia” concept, he added.
The recognition of non-Malays' status as bumiputra would be the best appraisal by the Barisan Nasional government on the contribution of non-Malays to the country’s development, he said
In time, he said, racial differences would no longer be a barrier towards unity and there would no longer be the issue of any racial discrimination, he said.-- theSun
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