If it is already our common consensus that Malaysia is a multi-racial country, then we must agree that the country has to show multi-elements: multi-cultures, multi-educations, multi-economy and multi-politics.
It is inevitable to have stronger and weaker groups among diversity. Thus, policies to help the weaker group are indeed necessary in certain historical period.
But the problem is, they always exceed the proper limits in righting a wrong, making the acts to help the weaker racial group to turn out as the acts of pressuring other racial groups. Eventually, it leads to polarisation, resulting in mutual suspicions, distrust and exclusion among racial groups.
Contradictions and conflicts brought by racial group-oriented policies can always be seen and it is already an undeniable and unavoidable fact.
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