Thomas L. Friedman wrote a nice article last week that inspired me. It got me thinking… of my nation; my country. Are we going to have a nation-building society? a hopeful nation-building people?
In his column, he stated:-
Traveling the country these past five months while writing a book, I’ve had my own opportunity to take the pulse, far from the campaign crowds. My own totally unscientific polling has left me feeling that if there is one overwhelming hunger in our country today it’s this: People want to do nation-building. They really do. But they want to do nation-building in America.
Looking into Malaysia, this country of mine where she is undergo a transition of power. This changes… it shows through the recent general election that we, the people care about the nation. Everyone wants to do their role in nation-building.
Apart from it, the raising concern I had is about the second largest ethic group - the Chinese. Most of the people I knew bother nothing about the country. They have no heart for the nation. It doesn’t matter whether they were Chinese educated nor Kebangsaan educated. Don’t ever put those 2 pillars into the topic. What it deemed failure is the nationalism. Racism separated the nationalism? Or the direction set way back during the independence time?
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