The Malaysian Chinese Mentality

The parcel box I picked up from the Post Office *I was not in my room when the postman delivered it so I had to pick up there...stupid procedure*;

Unboxing begins!! Can't believe the T-shirt could be actually folded into such a small size;

woohoo! The T-shirt and the album, which comes in both CD and a karaoke DVD. Unfortunately, 我還是我 and 不罵粗話 are taken out because Malaysian government said the songs are *political*

Just got my Namewee (黃明志) album last night from post office, and the unpacking really is something. Fetching the album and yes, the T-Shirt out of the box, that's like, wow-ness.

Then it gives me some thought on the Malaysian Chinese mentality I seen. Well, I would say Malaysian Chinese coz it's a little over if I include the Malay, Indian, Kadazan etc into this puddle of water. Of course, to be honest, the Malaysian Chinese is a generalization of those who I met. But seriously, don't take it seriously. =)


1) Malaysian Chinese will be very shocked when you tell them they need to commit. Well, here what I mean is, tell them to sign their names on a particular political petition. Or tell them to write down their names so that they will be responsible for something in the future. Usually, they will laugh kesi-kesi-ly (假死假死-ly), and try to find an excuse to run away;

2) Don't tell Malaysian Chinese to pay for something, for example, events etc. They will perform the kesi act as stated in No.1 and 'run' away. Or worse, they will pretend that they forgot to pay you back and hope that time will forget their 'forgetfulness';

3) For every free event, almost all Malaysian Chinese will attend (kinda true for my uni, HKUST);

4) When you tell a Malaysian Chinese to do something and he actually says "okay, okay", then be careful. That actually means "okay la, cincai la, you go die la, I do my own things can liao". And then you later will find that whatever things you tell him/her to do, it's just...never get started;

5) Malaysian Chinese will never make up their minds on the spot. They need time to think about it, and will react only on the very last moment of the deadline. So if you ask them to attend something, make sure you call them before last minute...only that time you will get a solid answer. Well, this includes asking them out for a simple dinner;

6) You need to understand that, Malaysian Chinese are a strange group that will easily believe negative side of things instead of the positive side. They are just so insecure and suspicious of almost all things. For example, you tell a Malaysian Chinese that xxx is actually a bad guy in spite of what he's done, an American will go "Really?", a Malaysian Malay will go "Tak sangka la", but for Malaysian Chinese, the reaction would be "Oooooo...是咩?", and you knew it, they are actually ingesting the words!!

7) Malaysian Chinese, although multi-lingual, is never proud of that. They always feel that their English is second-grade because of the accent, the Cantonese is not pure because it doesn't sound Hong Kong style, the Hokkien is not up to standard because we campur Malay words, and the Putonghua spoken is embarrassing because it's simply a joke to the Mainland and Taiwan Chinese.


I know a lot of you are skeptical of Namewee. You think that he just wanna get famous. But, be honest to yourself, who doesn't want to? At least Namewee tells you in your face that, yes, he wants to become 明星偶像.

Stand up, Malaysian Chinese. Stop all those cheapskates' habits. Stand up, be a man. Stand up to what you said. Speak the right words, and speak them rightfully and honestly. Don't just keep scolding and scolding then cower in a corner when somebody asked you to commit to what you said.

If you want Malaysia to change, change yourself first. Be honest, be yourself. And, come on, don't look down on your own culture and accent. 連自己的文化都瞧不起，到底發生了什麽事情？You are a Malaysian after all, no??


And the Namewee's "Say No to Racism" T-shirt!

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