This is so amusing. Every year, this happens. And the usual finger pointing begins. The non-Bumis will blame the govt and UMNO, etc. for their non-acceptance into uni. All I can say is this: Get a life! Grow up! Move on!

Before that, I truly sympathise with the author of this story and I do hope your brother will receive the education he longs for. Everyone deserves it, no matter their predicament so I hope something works out for him.

And now, let’s look at the hard facts:

Fact 1 – there are only so many vacancies in public universities. This was made known before the results were out. If you are offered a spot, then please take it if you have no choice.

Fact 2 – everyone applies for medicine (sarcasm intended). And when alternatives are offered, you reject it because you ONLY want to do medicine and nothing else. And if you don’t get it, you go crying to the political parties.

Fact 3 – the ruling party has to be seen to support their own. You cannot seriously expect them to offer ALL the good spots to the chinese, can you? How naive and stupid of you to think so.

So what do you do? You cry and complain that the govt is being unfair, that they practice discrimination, etc. Yeah, so what? This is Malaysia. Don’t you know this is the policy? Don’t you know this is what we’ve been doing all this time? It’s downright ridiculous, I know but that’s the cold, hard fact.

So what are you choices? Apply for other courses, go to private institutions, go overseas or get a job and postpone your studies.

That’s all you got and that’s all you gonna get. Oh, you can also complain to the political parties and they will “try” their very best to talk to the Minister of Higher Education to see if they can get “you” in. Why the inverted commas? Talking about unfair advantages, because you had an avenue to talk to your state representative, something can be done. What about those who don’t have this avenue? What’s going to happen to them? And what gives you the right to have an unfair advantage over the rest?

megaman,

You say we have to look at facts and from both perspectives. How do you know the truth is that non-bumis are the high scorers and achievers? Do you have any facts to back that up or is it just an assumption? This is a sweeping statement that just doesn’t qualify. You also said to see it from both perspectives and yet, you’re only quoting from one. Could it be that the bumis are catching up academically and do deserve their place in public universities? Now wouldn’t that would be looking at it from both perspectives?

The govt did practice meritocracy a few years ago and as a result, a large number of positions in the local unis were given to the non-bumis. This obviously caused an uproar amongst the bumis and they of course, demanded that the quota system be reinstated. But what this also did was to spur the bumis to do better and they did just that. How do I know? I read the newspapers.

As for your statement about parents spending money on their children’s education, shouldn’t that be the primary responsibility of any parent? Which country are you living in whereby you didn’t know this to be true about malaysia? I’ve been told this ever since I was a little kid and I accept that this is the responsibility of any parent.

Finally, both bumi and non-bumi have been marginalised. Either socially, economically or politically. Don’t you think there are poor non-bumis out there who also yearn for an education but can’t afford one? No doubt the govt uses our tax dollars to help as many as possible but there are also unfortunate ones. The difference here is, we can complain.