say what?
why do i need to wear a stupid red rubber band around my wrist to prove i am Malaysian?
i am Malaysian! i am not a politician, thus i do not sit in a Malay, Chinese or Indian party. i do not talk about my kris in Parliament and about my culture of yam-seng and such and then say "i am Malaysian, but only talking about my own culture lah/leh".
i do not think of myself as Punjabi or Indian. i have always said i am Malaysian first.
but now, the conceptualization and creation of this cheap ugly red rubber band is an insult to me, as a Malaysian, and i am in addition forced to watch these awfully cheesy adverts on Astro that brainwash: eh - all of us liking roti-canai lah so we same-same.Malaysian and someone calling someone else "brother" in another language is a fucking honor.
don't our damn politicians get it??! every time YOU acknowledge we are different, YOU are perpetuating the myth that we are different. and telling us that wearing this skanky crappy red rubber band around our wrists makes us more Malaysian, merely proves that we are still such different souls struggling to conform, 50 long painful years on.
get a grip my Malaysian politicians, and do not work at separating us whilst articulating Kongsi-Raya.
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I wholeheartedly agree with you. I think that advert's crap, like most commercials on ASTRO. This one's just plain annoying!
eehhhh... I like the macha, uncle, aunty ad...coz I thot that is very "asian" and to some extend M'sian thing to do...and I've always thot that stem from our national language - Makcik/Pakcik/Abg/Kakak which translates into Aunty/Uncle/Brother/Sister...so if my own definition is right it is very malaysian kan? I loike :-)
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