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Since 1969 all Malaysians have placed their hope in the notion that continued economic prosperity is a guarantee against racial extremism and political instability. They forged a social contract call the New Economic Policy. And the Government backed by a race-based party system have strived hard to ensure that the policy worked.
However, the 1969-generation has experienced a dramatic shift in the paradigm. Questions they are asking are:
-How radically has the paradigm changed?
-How predictable is the future for the next generation?
-Is there a drive towards a Malay Supremacy?
The Author calls for an empathetic understanding of Malay aspirations and makes a plea for non-Malays to make a decision about their own future in the land because what is at hand is nothing less than a relentless drive for "Malay Supremacy" which the he defines as:
The ideological, socio-structural and historical stratification process by which the population of Malay descent has gained and intentionally sustain, to its own best advantage, the dynamic mechanics of upward or downward social mobility over the non-Malay population, on a national scale, using Malay ethnicity and Islam as the main criteria for allocating resources and making political decisions.
PAUL MONASH BD, PG Dip, CeFACS, MPhil(UK), an Anglican clergy of 17 years brings into the debate honest and thought provoking insights.
