Umno man: ‘Birth of a Nation’ is wrong

took the title from The Star, article can be found here.

Article's like this,

IPOH: The phrase “The Birth of a Nation” is misleading and gives the impression that Malaysia was only born 50 years ago, said Tambun Umno Youth division chief Nasir Ismail.

He said this was an insult to the country as it portrayed the Malays as a race without a nation of their own.

“Malaysia has taken concrete steps to break the shackles of the imperialists' economic marginalisation,” he said during the divisional meeting here yesterday.

He explained that the Tourism Ministry had been using that phrase to promote the country in its advertisements abroad.

first thing that popped out of my mind while reading this, is Malaysia a Malay country? Malacca wasn't a country? obviously it seemed to him that the Kingdom of Malacca and that of Kedah on others aren't a country because Malaysia is the only country Malays have been in. seriously, wtf???

again, while the top guns in BN keep shouting for racial tolerance(i do praise Abdullah in PM issue in Penang) but it's always the little puppies that keep yapping about ketuanan melayu, or crap like this!

If you want to be detailed, the Federation of Malaysia is not 50 years old but 44 to be exact. Malaya as a country with Singapore gained it's independance in 1957 but Malaysia was only formed with Sarawak,Sabah and Brunei in 1963. so yes, since Malaya was not a country(according to the UMNO man), the malay's were 'countriless' so why the hell did the chinese and indians gave up so much for nationality and political 'power' ???