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Subject: Re: Malaysia: Chinese Favour For Tamil Schools
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:36:27 +0530
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From: "Bala Pillai"
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Dear Viji,
> The unabashedly racist policies of the Malayian State for the last 4
> decades has resulted in the deprivation of Tamils and hence a change
> must come from there
I went through many of your postings in the Classical Tamil group archives
on the "Dravidian Substatrum" thread. You and I see eye-to-eye on the sound
premises you cite.
[However, I believe you are missing out an even bigger picture. What made
the Tamils/Indians who were so strong once, so weak, such that a little
island called Britain, was able to colonize them starting about 1604 in
Chennai?]
You and I very well know that the odds of the Malaysian state changing its
policies significantly, given:-
(a) the institutionalised racism in the political apparatus of state,
(b) the fear and eyewash that is perpetuated amongst our working class
brethren
(c) the dropping political power of Tamil/Indian-Malaysians given their
dropping population percentage and
(d) the decreasing power of governments given globalisation, is very very
low, if any. That is, if the government, has not done it by now when we were
relatively stronger, it is not going to improve, as the position weakens.
What do we do knowing these? I think you would agree with me, that we have a
duty of care, *not* to ignore these ground realities.
How about a strategy of negotiating from a position of strength instead of
appeasing from a position of weakness, for a change instead? Since 100 years
is more than enough for the appeasement strategy.
You may ask, "So Bala, how do we get to a position of strength?". My
proposal, "Solutions from Ecosystems Thinking" and the transnational
solution I outlined in "Bill Gates & Tamil Society". I have sent essays on
these out and they are in the archives. Would be more than pleased to send
them to you, if you have trouble finding them, Viji -- you are a kindred
spirit.
anpudan../bala
bala@...
sydney, australia
Founder, Thamil Innaiyam (since 1995)
Click on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/erumbugal
> --- In agathiyar@y..., "vijinuk"
> --- In agathiyar@y..., "Bala Pillai"
> > Anpulla Thamil Innaiya Nanbargale,
> >
> > The state of Tamil society in Malaysia is really sad. In the area
> of language schooling, the Chinese community led by very respected
> Chinese Community Education Group, Dong Jiao Zong, do hundred-fold
> better job pro-rata than the Tamil community does. The Tamils are
> stuck on a handout mentality, the Chinese take risks, make money and
> have more than enough to fend for themselves and their community.
>
>
> Dear Bala
>
> You are unfairly blaming the already battered Malaysian Tamil
> community for their predicament. Blaming a victim for their ills is
> rubbing salt on the wounds.
>
> About education- Chinese in Malaysia have the huge resources of
> Chinese teaching in PRC-Taiwan-HK combine. Chinese study everything
> in Chinese - from elementary school to Elementary Particle Physics.
> They make pins to satelllites in Chinese designs. You have the whole
> Chinese IT world in software and hardware running in Chinese in
> parellel to the English language software.
>
> You have none of this cultural and technological advantage of
> malaysian chinese available to Tamils there.How much a Tamil will
> take Tamil education seriously or how much Tamil education schools
> can deliver depends on job and labour markets which need Tamil
> knowledge and technological knowledge in Tamil. Hence the Tamils
> suffer both from the supply side and demand side. Why blame them?
>
> The unabashedly racist policies of the Malayian State for the last 4
> decades has resulted in the deprivation of Tamils and hence a change
> must come from there
> --- End forwarded message ---
>
>
