I don’t know about that! In Malaysia racism and racial discrimination is institutionalised. It is not unconstitutional to discriminate along racial lines.

That sets Malaysia apart from countries like the United States. But the U.S. did not start that way. Racial discrimination was not unlawful in the U.S. at one time. For example, only Whites could become U.S> citizens in the 1800s. It was only in 1952 that racism as an integral part of the immigration policy came to an official end.

In the United States

There are many Malaysians like yourself. Posters like Jeffrey understands this. Like I always say – and I can only speak for myself when I say – Malaysia is still a good place to live in and raise a family despite the discrimination. We may be U.S. nationals today but we were once Malaysians.

For this student it is a form of bullying as I don’t think any action would be taken if he had come from the BN camp.

http://malaysiawatch3.blogspot.com/2007/11/upms-heavy-hand.html

I continued my education at MIT, graduating with a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering in 1961. My master’s thesis was also in the area of mathematical modeling of chemical reactions.

From January 1958 to May 1961, while a student at the MIT, I worked as a research assistant at the Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge.

I started working as an entry-level engineer at the now defunct Digital Equipment Corporation in Shrewsbury just outside of Boston in May 1961. It was my first exposure to the relatively new electronics industry. During this time, I became interested in learning more about semiconductor technology and integrated circuits. From September 1961 to December 1965, I was a part-time graduate student in electrical engineering at Harvard.

In 1966 I started my fulltime doctoral study in electrical engineering at Princeton,specializing in semiconductor device physics.

I received my doctorate in 1970 and joined Intel in Santa Clara as a research engineer. I retired from Intel two years ago after 35 years of various assignments of increasing responsibilities in virtually all areas of semiconductor technology both as an engineer, technical manager, and business line executive.

I married an incredible American woman in 1965 and we have four lovely boys who are now in their 30s. (And we also have six grandchildren.)

I actually thought of returning to Malaysia in 1975. I was 37 years old. My wife was very supportive of my move. I wanted to teach at the University of Malaya which was locally the most prestigious institute of higher education at that time. I had hoped that my three degrees in two diverse fields of engineering and my years of work experience would have convinced the professors of my technical prowess, and that I would continue to make contributions to the semiconductor industry. My lifelong goal at that time was to pursue teaching as a profession, becoming the educator and teacher that I so admired in my college years. I wanted to contribute in a meaningful way to the lives of young people. Unfortunately I was told that I didn’t qualify for a position because I wasn’t conversant in Bahasa Malaysia. I would have a difficult time teaching.

It was a blessing in disguise. I decided to stay in the US out of consideration for my wife and four children. It would have been stressful for them to leave all their family and friends behind in the US and adjust to the Malaysian way of life. It wouldn’t have been practical as their only exposure to Malaysia was the yearly visits to my parents and siblings.

I became a US citizen in 1980 after 25 years living here. I was 42 at that time. My wife and children were at the ceremony when I took the oath. I am proud to be a US citizen but I do miss Malaysia. I do miss the place where I had spent the first 17 years of my life.

The US is now my home. In all candor, I couldn’t really call Malaysia my home anymore because I have a wife, four children, and six grandchildren who are all born in the US.

You can enrol in UTAR. It’s a better place than any local uni.

You get to be with very hardworking students not mat rempits or lazy parasitic junior UMNaziO putras. There are loans to help.

If you asked me, it sound more like a case of dead-minds overeacting to their own insecurities than anything real. Forget the morality of this, the mediocrity is more scary.

Most who shared with me have the same thoughts as myself. Good times are guaranteed and can only last for our present generation. After our children’s generation. No more guarantee that there still will be money or resources left in the country by the rampant raping which is happening. EPF money? Don’t even dare think of it.

So, most are planning and working the @rse off to secure a better future for their children. One job is not enough. Must have more than 2 income. At least 3.

Ketuanan Melayu can have its day. When there is no longer plurality in Malaysia. It may happen within our lifetime. Steps are underway to make Malaysia more Islam than Saudi Arabia. Sometimes, more so, with its own interpretation.

- Institutionalized racism is BOLEH
- Under table money is BOLEH if it helps coffers of ruling govt
or it is payback to people who helped the ruling govt.
- And many many more BOLEHs which the rakyat knows of

Remain silent as we are, but we’re not stupid.

Bodohland is the only country in the whole wide world where racial discrimination is openly practiced and sanctioned by the government. In most other countries the minorities are given special assistance because their governments recognize that every citizen has an unalienble right to realize their potential to the fullest.

Life is not a dress rehearsal. There is no undo button to press. What is being done to the non-bumis in Bodohland is a crime. They are handcuffed and anchored down by a government that does not realize the harm that is being done to the competitiveness of the country.

If the US has the same shortsighted policy as Bodohland, the world may be missing out on some of the great accomplishments by such Asian-American luminaries as Vinod Khosla (founder of Sun Microsystem), Jerry Yang (co-founder of Yahoo), David Ho (Director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and 1996 TIME’s Man of the Year) and I.M. Pei (Pritzker Prize-winning architect). Who knows how many potential Khoslas, Yangs, Hos and Peis there are in Bodohland who may have been deprived of their right to achieve their dreams.

Are you saying their Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and the others were people without vision and without education??? The U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1790 and months later they decided that only Whites could become citizens of the United States. Chinese from China who came to work on the railways in California in the 1800s were excluded and banned from becoming citizens. There was an expressed prohibition against Chinese.