This is a late late post, i was only enlighten to write this post three weeks after the National Day. To be truth, its awfully quiet this year, no celebration, no fireworks, just a good old speech from our dear PM on tele.
Peter, his mates and I went for a nice dinner at Alexis Bar during the last Merdeka eve (have a look at Peter's entry at http://alimento.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/alexis-ampang-on-merdeka-eve/). Its so funny that nowadays people are not celebrating Hari Merdeka because its Hari Merdeka anymore. Instead, they are celebrating it because the next day is a holiday and you know its good to hang out sometimes with old mates.
Today's generation had slowly lose their appreciation towards history and culture/tradition, i am not particularly feeling sad or fret too much over it, cuz personally i think this is just a natural evolution. How many people actually practice the idols and ancestry worshiping like those days in traditional china community? How many people know their ancestry root and are eager to trace it back to their home country like China and India?
Today, as the intellectuality gaining its weights and modernization takes place, people's mind and action are more goal orientated, they dont spend time and effort doing something just because the rest of 25 millions people are doing it, unless its of some interest to them.
Same goes with the patriotism, how many Malaysian truly knows the meaning of Merdeka? The only merdeka which i know is the black and white motion picture of The late Tunku Abdul Rahman shouting in front of the crowds, declaring the starting of an identity called Malaysian. It was a BIG thing back then for those people who live through the British colonial era.
However, the sudden popularization of Internet and the global village concept has really revolutionize the way people define 'nationality'. and suddenly, out of no where its more 'cool' to become a global citizen rather than Malaysian. We are living and standing on the same soil called earth, we are build from the same genetic sequences from 100,000 years ago till today, so what makes us so different then? skin color? language? dialects? occupation? Like my boss always says, there is no race but 1 race, the F1 race (ok, i know its lame).
Anyway, i still love my country, its on this land that i was born and nurtured to the person i am now, i dont intend to become a 'kacang melupakan kulit'. Just that i think its time for us to have a more open heart and 'global' mind rather then fighting over petty racial issue and teritory issue all the time. So, happy belated merdeka, friends.
Peter, his mates and I went for a nice dinner at Alexis Bar during the last Merdeka eve (have a look at Peter's entry at http://alimento.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/alexis-ampang-on-merdeka-eve/). Its so funny that nowadays people are not celebrating Hari Merdeka because its Hari Merdeka anymore. Instead, they are celebrating it because the next day is a holiday and you know its good to hang out sometimes with old mates.
Today's generation had slowly lose their appreciation towards history and culture/tradition, i am not particularly feeling sad or fret too much over it, cuz personally i think this is just a natural evolution. How many people actually practice the idols and ancestry worshiping like those days in traditional china community? How many people know their ancestry root and are eager to trace it back to their home country like China and India?
Today, as the intellectuality gaining its weights and modernization takes place, people's mind and action are more goal orientated, they dont spend time and effort doing something just because the rest of 25 millions people are doing it, unless its of some interest to them.
Same goes with the patriotism, how many Malaysian truly knows the meaning of Merdeka? The only merdeka which i know is the black and white motion picture of The late Tunku Abdul Rahman shouting in front of the crowds, declaring the starting of an identity called Malaysian. It was a BIG thing back then for those people who live through the British colonial era.However, the sudden popularization of Internet and the global village concept has really revolutionize the way people define 'nationality'. and suddenly, out of no where its more 'cool' to become a global citizen rather than Malaysian. We are living and standing on the same soil called earth, we are build from the same genetic sequences from 100,000 years ago till today, so what makes us so different then? skin color? language? dialects? occupation? Like my boss always says, there is no race but 1 race, the F1 race (ok, i know its lame).
Anyway, i still love my country, its on this land that i was born and nurtured to the person i am now, i dont intend to become a 'kacang melupakan kulit'. Just that i think its time for us to have a more open heart and 'global' mind rather then fighting over petty racial issue and teritory issue all the time. So, happy belated merdeka, friends.
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