While the uproar over the BTN continues, let’s look at what happens to some of our university students after they graduate.
The following was the answer received by Selayang MP William Leong in Parliament recently:
In 2004, there were 4,594 unemployed graduates of whom 163 were Chinese, 207 were Indians and 4,060 were Malays;
In 2005, there were 2,413 unemployed graduates of whom 31 were Chinese, 70 were Indians and 2,186 were Malays;
In 2006, there were 56,750 unemployed graduates of whom 1,110 were Chinese, 1,346 were Indians and 50,594 were Malays.
In 2007, there were 56,322 unemployed graduates of whom 1,348 were Chinese, 1,401 were Indians and 49,075 were Malays.
In 2008 (as of June) there were 47,910 unemployed graduates of whom 1,403 Chinese, 4,694 Indians and 41,813 were Malays.
This more or less tallied with the 47,733 active graduate registrants on the Malaysian Labour Exchange in June 2008.
By March 2009, Najib was talking about 60,000 unemployed graduates. This was more or less in line with the 57,701 graduate registrants on the Exchange in March 2009.
By October 2009, we were looking at 81,046 active graduate registrants on the Labour Exchange – and another 70,747 active registrants who are diploma holders.
Mind you, this is after the civil service absorbs thousands of graduates every year.
Clearly, we have a problem with unemployed graduates (and diploma and certificate holders).
Maybe we are producing graduates with skills that can’t be used/knowledge that cannot earn them a living or that are not up to employers’ expectations. Or maybe they are not taught how to be independent and self-sufficient and how to put their skills and knowledge to good use. Perhaps they are spoon-fed so much and closeted from the real world, they don’t have the ability to think analytically and critically. Or maybe they are not taught how to carry out independent research and inquiry and are more used to rote-learning.
Or all of the above.
Check out how much it costs to re-train these graduates here.
Meanwhile, those Umno/BN chaps are arguing over who is more racist (re: BTN) when there are so many unemployed graduates around, the majority of them Malay. What will happen to them?
The reason why the Chinese do far better economically, not just in Malaysia but anywhere in the world where there are Chinese, is because the Chinese is known to be a very hard working, resilient, and self-supporting race. They do not rely on hand outs or clutches to survive and to improve themselves and for their families. You can see this in action in countries like China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore where the Chinese are the majority. Given a chance they will outshine economically everywhere. This itself will benefit all other races living in that country. You can see this in neighboring Indonesia where only 2 % of the population is Chinese, but they hold 80 % of the country’s economy. It is just hard work and their determination forge ahead that’s all. Their ancient proverb teaches them that ‘if you give a hunger man a fish, you will only feed him for one day, but if you teach him how to fish, you will feed him for life’. The Malays can do the same if the BN-led Government does not continue to weaken them as a race by continuing to give them handouts and clutches year-after-year. Just throw them into the water, and make them swim using their will, strength, and might instead of supporting them with life jackets all the time. They will make a laughing stock of themselves by other races worldwide.
Even the Malays in Singapore are looking down at the Malays in Malaysia, telling them that they in Singapore have to compete with the Chinese, and they are just as successful as the predominantly Chinese. In Singapore, the Malays speak fluent English, and many can speak Mandarin also, but in Malaysia if you speak to a Malay in English, (many) will always answer you back in Malay, except the upper class educated Malays or older generations Malays who always talk to you in English. So you don’t blame the Chinese or the other non-Bumi races who are still economically successful and they can find jobs easily and have less employment rates than all those thousands of Malay graduates coming out from countless public universities who has (less) communication skills at all, and are able to speak and write Malay. This is an increasing globalized and commercial world and you need to compete to survive to know other languages too. The westerners are scrambling these days to learn Mandarin because they can see head that that Chinese language is going to replace even English in the near future because is fast rising up as a superpower. But in Malaysia all the other races can speak Malay, but the Malays cannot speak one word of Chinese or other languages. The government by spoon-feeding them is actually weakening them as a race in the long run. How long can politics continue to support the Bumis? Ultimately Mother Nature will overwhelm them as prescribed in Darwin’s Theory of Survival of the Fittest.
This is seen in all species in the animal kingdom, and humans are scientifically just another animal put to survive on this Planet. The Malays and all races can do better, not just the Chinese if taught to work hard, be resilient, and be determined, and not allow other races, or even our own race to look down on them. This applies also to the Chinese, and Indians as well, not just the Malays. China with the strength of 1.4 billion hard working and very resilient race is a shinning example of a egg to larva turning into a very beautiful and modern butterfly today. She is now becoming a very powerful economic giant in just 30 short years because of the vision of Deng Xiaoping to open her up. Malaysia was given 50 years – nearly twice as long of Independence by the British, but instead of making economic headway, is now sliding far behind neighboring countries like Singapore. Singapore without any natural resources is much better off economically for all the races – not just for the Chinese there after Singapore broke off from Malaysia. Why? It is because the quality of a nation does not depend on the quantity of her people, but the quality of her citizen. Do that, and Malaysia can change into a very beautiful butterfly like China today.
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