VOICES AROUND
We lament, as we often do, the declining levels of inter-ethnic contact
in the country; and we bemoan that the so-called 'golden years' of
Malaysia in the 1950s and 1960s are long gone. And yet
we maintain this inane belief that by segregating children from an
early age along linguistic-cultural lines we can still forge a Malaysian
nation, together. How? And upon what basis would that shared sense of national belonging be found?