Discriminatory legislation, laws and practices can never be accepted among citizens

India's Prime Minister did not wish to be involved in the Malaysian government's discrimination of Malaysian Indians. He did not question the government about this issue. He was right not to do so as that would mean interfering in the internal affairs of another country.

However, the Malaysian government should not, based on India's Prime Minister's refusal to question such a matter, consider the matter too trivial to look into. The fact that citizens feel they have been sufficiently discriminated in their own country to approach outside forces for assistance indicates that something is seriously troubling them.

A country can only be considered well-developed and ready for greater progress only when all its people are united and are fully supportive of the government. When we talk of a country's people, wise politicians ought to know the said country's people consists of every group, be they from different religions, cultures or races. And this can only happen if government politicians are matured enough to accept the fact that they are elected to look after the welfare of all citizens and to have them treated equally regardless of whether they belong to the same race or religion as the political leaders.

In Malaysia, there is this much disputed 'social contract' which government leaders claim had been agreed to by the founding leaders that a particular race must be treated more special than the other races. According to one of the ex-Prime Minister, the disputed 'social contract' is not a signed document. It is laughable that such a serious matter was never documented and signed, if what had been said was true. In the meantime the online media, Malaysia Today, is publishing the documents it claims to be the Malaysian Constitution to show that nowhere can there be found such a social contract. So the question arises: Is there such a contract? If there is none, why has the citizens been told of such a non existing contract, especially when it is such a contract which will never have all the citizens treated
equally?

Even if such a 'social contract' does exist and we understand that it divides the people into two groups which had to be treated differently; should not the government do the right thing by doing away such a social contract. Look! The country certainly stands to be forever not truly united if such a contract does exist. Certainly those treated as 'step-children' of the country will feel the discrimination as they become more intelligent and understand the unfairness and injustice heaped upon them especially when there is no Godmother to come to their rescue. (Read Cinderella and understand what the author teaches about discrimination in a family.) Thus there can never be true unity as these people would have this so called 'social contract' hanging constantly like a dark ominous cloud over their heads.

Without fair treatment to all citizens, there can be no loyalty. How can any government expect people whom they treat as 'step-children' to be loyal to it, when equal help and opportunities were never given to them? They pray for the day a better government with greater leaders be installed; true national leaders who could right the wrongs and treat them as true citizens so that they can live with equal hope for growth, prosperity and happiness in their own country without further worry of their rightful place under the Malaysian sun.

Well, let's pray to God for such rightful changes so that Malaysia can grow from strength to strength into a really developed nation.