The following article was adopted from one of the replies listed in my video clip "In The Blink Of An Eye!". A point of view about our country from my Friend Ruhani Rabin.
"Yes bro i understand, Since i stepped into this country I've been learning. And its in a way interesting even for a developed country like this.
First its a unique combination of country where multiple races staying together. It's a unique place to learn and enhance knowledge about people and cultures. But simple things made me hurt sometimes which is difficult to express.
Sometimes I can see corruption hidden inside under the umbrella. Government is optimist but not the entire one.
Well I can give an example, I've seen they made it happen that Muslims can marry 4 times... Well I can say confidently its not correct. I hate when people use religion to overcome their wishes. Why I can say that... Well I've been a "Hafez" when I was 11 years old. Means I understand the translation of the Islamic Holy book "Quran". It was never been stated that you can simply marry 4 women.
I've born with very expanding vision and clarity to see people. So sometimes I see here the corruption in the name of Islam... Which is hurting and seriously painful... (e.g. Kelantan)...
I've many kind of relations here. And I feel great when I got invitation for "Christmas", CNY, Deepavali... Why I got all the invitations is because how I act with people. Respect is everything.
Compare to my country Malaysia is more than 20 years advance but deep down somewhere there are corruption and lust. I don't want to name peoples or races but I feel the racism still exists in a way that is difficult to express. But we can feel it everyday in our life. We see it everyday in our life.
My point of view in Malaysia, the currency/business is mostly depends on Chinese community, hard working peoples are Indians, Malays... (censored)
When you give people features/options that they don't won it, mostly it will go spoiled. Example... If you don't earn the money then how the hell you are going to understand whats the value of that money...
As a foreigner I found out; There are 100 doors in a room I'm standing, but 10 doors only available to me, for other local races 80 doors are open, for Malays they have 99 doors open...
Let me give you one more example... I've seen few illegal motor races in KL... roads... It's horrifying... Most interesting I didn't see other races drivers (namely Indian, Malays only). Why they have to do race with a 80cc bike... is there anything macho about it... i don't think so...
If my dad gives me money everyday or somehow I know I will get money... then definitely I will take things as granted... I won't blame them, i will blame the system making them lazy... Remember lazy brain is house of "Devil". Surprisingly these laziness lead to drugs and other un-social activities... and drugs leads to car jacks, thefts...
Again, I'm not saying these happens only in one race but mostly (65%) in one race, 15% in other races... I can't be too open here cause I got to take care of me since I'm foreigner... If anything happens to me... nobody will ask a question...
I tend to study people.. Cause for me PEOPLE = KNOWLEDGE... Sadly I've seen so many cases around me. On the other hand, I've seen few of my colleagues who are Really really hard working and I tell to other people to learn from them... Malaysia needs more people like them.
I could but I don't want to talk about other issues... Those are most sensitive... It's not safe to talk about those...
If you want to know a real life story of me in Malaysia... I could put it down in words..."
For Rabin, I was actually asking about his opinions on our country. And he was generous and willing to share with us. In fact, he'd also got hesitation as he was afraid he might write something which was "inappropriate"... Anyway, I think we could have learnt from the Michael Backman's experience, one of our Auntie Minister commented that she doesn’t mind if the ‘bodoh’ comment comes from a foreigner who didn’t know Malaysia, as long as he is not Malaysian, it was fine to her. So, if she could simply blink the fact that our shortcomings do exist, then why would an ignorant foreigner be worried about bringing out his opinions?!
As the citizens of Malaysia, we have been contributing our greatest effort to build our country, support her and always hope to see her getting stonger and make us proud to say, "We Are Malaysians!"