Learning Mother Tongue Language a Human Right

Recently, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Jerlun, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir calling for the closure of national-type schools indeed opposing human rights and the social contract. As we realized that statement made was due to the coming-soon UMNO-party-election which will held on March next year as Mukhriz contesting for UMNO Youth Chief, but to exploit national unity for his self politics interest indeed cannot be accepted. He should be taken action under the Sedition Act as said by the DAP leader where it is based on the amendment of the Federal Constitution that amended in 1971.

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Learning mother tongue language is a human right. And certainly, some will say that Chinese-language and Tamil-language subjects will be provided in national schools. However, this may systematically abolished such languages in the education system. Whereby, the national schools now which providing Chinese-language and Tamil-language subjects, the learning only until basic level (Standard 1 & 2) for 6 years and the learning process is considerably unsystematic and in an informal way. Isn’t that a effort to deny the right of Chinese and Indian people to learn their mother tongue language?

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Essentially, the government has to really practise freedom in our education system, let the people to decide whether they want to enter national school or national-type school. Nowadays, national-type schools students are not limited to only one ethnic group as there are non-Chinese entering Chinese national-type schools.

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The incident was really regrettable where Malaysia achieved independence for a half-century but racial issue is still playing by some irresponsible people for politics interest. That is a laughing-stock to the world community. Let’s look at the United States’ Presidential Election recently, the two presidential candidates from different ethnic group but no racial issue is rose by Mc Cain during the election campaign to get support from the majority white. And besides, the minority ethnic group, African American which the percentage rate only 14.1% of the overall population of the US, Barack Obama was elected as the 44th US President. But what happening in Malaysia, the racial issue will always be rose whether it is general-election, party-election or even a by-election. This shown how immature do UMNO leaders are.

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There is also amazement that former Minister of Health, Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek who touched on Malay supremacy was investigated by the police when there is no investigation being made on Mukhriz who obviously threaten the national stability and the nation’s unity. However, it does not meant that we support Soi Lek because people know that MCA leaders’ remarks currently were mainly affected by 308 Political Tsunami in order to get back their supports from the Chinese community.

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