Malaysians are always very appreciative of the fact if they do have a white friend/s.

They always have a ready smile(all 32 teeth, brushed and glossed prior) for their white friends. Always willing to go that extra mile (extra 1000 miles in reality) to fulfil the needs (whims and fancies) of their white friends.

When their white friend insults them or their country, these malaysians will readily agree and promise profusely that they will change and the next time the white visits, they are willing to be audited!.

When they do go out with their white friends to restaurants, they will  put on their best behaviour and wear their best clothes and at the end of the day insist that they foot the bill. They will also insist that their children speak English and call them daddy and mummy.

Also, at their homes, they will make it seem(falsely) to the whites that they re-cycle diligently, are environment friendly, care for animals and plant a tree every other day. All this to impress their high class white friends.

At the airport, they will hug(embrace) their white friend, shed tears of anguish and will take down all contact details (down to shoe size). They will than diligently keep in touch.

Am i right?

But when it comes to their fellow malaysians or Bangladeshis, Filipinos, Indonesians, Nepalis etc,  its the complete opposite.

The disdain showered on these people are second to none.

Why are malaysians like this?

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/9/2/nation/6967032&sec=nation

Beats me how almost the entire nation is (seemingly) oblivious to the effects of a child being raised none other by the parents especially foreign maids who are incapable of bonding or develop any emotional investment on the child, not to mention imparting all their personal (often negative) vibes like anger and frustration of living away from their homes slaving for a strange family onto the child. Have we noticed how many of this generation kids raised by foreign maids display 'their' personalities then the own parents? They are none better than those many lazy night nurses in paediatric wards who feed the infants like animals lined up for feed without a caress or a gentle word when they know the parents are not watching.

I thought we Malaysians had more insight on this matter especially with those daily propagandas on tv and media on loving the family. In my opinion, the only people ever entitled to nurture and care for the infant is NOT the maid or granparents or some professional daycare but the PARENTS themselves. If PARENTS know for sure they will not be able to provide their child with personal attention, THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS BRINGING A LIFE INTO THE WORLD. No excuses. A child is not a social status or namesake. A qualified parent is that who gives forethought as to how he or she is going to be there for the child before they jump on the social bandwagon of being just another couple wanting to have a child - for all the wrong purposes like hanging around in malls on Sundays with their prams comparing themselves and children amongst their likes only to dump the kid with the maid the rest of the week on the excuses of having to earn enough to afford the maid in the first place, so ridiculous.  

In fact, let's take bring it down here- there must some basic requirement for people intending to be  parents, since we have minimal qualification requirement for many other lesser  things on the face of this world. At least a 3 month future parenting courses before even conceiving a child. Why not? Is is so easy to play with life of another?

Picked up on the saddest story of the day where a 15 month old boy was tortured and murdered.  There is nothing but anger to hear of an innocent infant being put through hell at such tender age.  The infant knows nothing, and could barely speak, NOTHING in the world can justify this ACT OF CRUELTY.

Yes, the MAID FROM HELL needs to be apprehended and punished, but it also brings to light one of our Malaysian social shortcomings - that many parents are choosing to work while leaving their young ones to be brought up by either maids, relatives or child-care centres.

I'm everyone would agree that a child brought up with the lack of quality time from the parents has tremendous psychological impact.  And yet, what is of huge concern is why do parents still choose to deprive any child of such benefits, and even to the extent to putting the child at risk of not just psychological, but also physical damage?

And one last advice, if you are leaving your kids to the maid, for your own child's sake, please install a CCTV system to monitor.  And especially with the recent uproar between us and "them", God knows what they are capable of. 

I think your family personal health is worth the investment.

"Still want to hire maids?

Somebody mentioned the stadium roof collapse, below is a picture before the collapse. It is clearly evident that the roof is defective and under enormous stress and starting to buckle. Any competent engineer would have raised concerns.

But nobody noticed???

The current resentment against Malaysians by Indonesians is not unexpected.  Some of us will remember not more than 20 years ago we had Filipina maids and workers.

We were then accused of under paying and mistreatment the Filipinas. The Phillipines then introduced a high minimum wage and better conditions for their workers. As a result we replaced Filipina maids with Indonesian maids and Filipina workers with Indonesians and Banglas.

It is possible that Indonesia will follow the same footsteps and force Malaysians to offer better working conditions and pay for their workers. This I think may shift the demand towards Burmese and Banglas workers.

I can understand Indonesia's anger, no country wants to be seen as, so poverty striken, that their citizens have to go overseas and work under sub-standard conditions. I certainly don't want to see my daughter or my son work under the conditions that our Indonesian migrant workforce work under, do you??

Malaysians if you cannot afford to have hired help the do the work yourself, don't try to take unfair advantage of others in  less fortunate circumstances, even if you can afford to pay, you should still treat others like you would like others to treat you if the roles were reversed.

I have come across some Malaysians who think that because they have a few stinking dollars they are above everyone else and mistreat others and  talk big. To these kind of people I wouldn't past water in their mouths even when it is on fire!!!

When the poverty pulverizes the human, he decides to get out of his place of origin to the new places, where the opportunities are abound.  If the new place is closer to their home, they may risk their life even by travelling in a small vessel and take the short voyage under dark. If the same place is quite afar, they may find means by selling the properties or taking a loan from the money lenders to fulfill the dream of good life.

Violation of human rights should not be encouraged and accepted, but these desperate illegal immigrants, most of the time, put themselves in trouble and they make it such a way that they can be abused a way or two. There are two types of abuse which are rampant in every part of the world, which are that they may be underpaid and overworked apart from physical and other sorts of abuse. Not everyone is mistreated, but a handful of them are abused.

When an immigrant worker earns enough and sends back home, he is enthusiastic to seek the dream of having a home of his own and other comforts. The problem does not start there; it starts when he returns home to enjoy the luxury of his hard labor. He observes everyone in his family is happy except he himself, when the time comes for him to leave the home that he desires to stay. He refuses to go and works as an illegal in the foreign land, but his members of his family force him to leave for them to live a comfortable life.

He tries to explain to them about his hardship and the mindset, everyone ignores him. During such trial period he may use the psychological tactic of physical abuse and other emotional factors to woo his family to let him to stay back.

That is what happening in Indonesia. Why do Indonesians like to gossip and spread the rumors as a few of these Indonesians and Malaysians commented in another blog?