Malaysian Oh Malaysian

It is true somehow by the statement of some philosophers that the progression of the nation yields a regressed society. Civilization has been put aside and the society today tends to be more individualistic rather than live in harmony, peace and prosperity atmosphere.

 Watching a shameful video of two Chinese men fighting with each other over a silly matter portrayed that Malaysians, or at least some of us are still lack of humanity. The separation of the society naturally happens not just between races and religion, but among it too.  Does it reflect the campaign ‘Budi Bahasa Budaya Kita’ by the government few years ago? Why this situation has to happen?

Selfish is the best word to describe the scenario from the beginning of the video until the end. Ego and perhaps the need to prove their manliness has brought up the small situation into a big one and create chaos on the road and traffic.

Living in a country where it is lived by a multicultural society needs people to be more tolerance and cooperative to each other. However, greed has slowly changed the society by killing the relevancy in human being. By a small matter, people show their true colours and willing to do anything to please their minds and angers.

Well, the selfishness of the society not only can be seen with the situation involving both Chinese men but also by the drivers on the road. Instead of stopping the fighting, people just slowed down their cars and watched both Chinese men harming each other with baseball bat. This truly shows that the spirit of togetherness has eroded from the society.

The truth is everyone should be blamed for the situation that happens, but somehow media as the fourth estate has brought huge negative examples to the society via its tools; television, Internet and newspaper, and in the end, the tendency to live in peace has diminished. Every single day, media, corrosively shows the society with deviance acts such as violence and cruelty.

Yes, we are now living in a place where we are not obliging to our own heritage anymore. The forgotten East culture can only be seen in the museum, not in the people today. Well, someday, we might also forget how our religion asked us to be kind to each other and live together as we are too passionate to fight for our own satisfaction.