Malaysians of mixed parentage back deleting ‘race’ in official paperworkPosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Census/Demographics, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy on 2014-02-26 16:47Z by Steven |
Malaysians of mixed parentage back deleting ‘race’ in official paperwork
The Malay Mail Online
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
2014-02-24
Ushar Daniele
PETALING JAYA, Feb 24 — The proposal to remove the race column in all paperwork in the country has been received positively.
he Malay Mail yesterday spoke to people on the street and with one voice, they agreed with the suggestion made by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Tan Sri Joseph Kurup after the National Unity Consultative Council’s meeting.
Engineer Shawn Sreedharan, 25, who is a mix of Malay, Chinese and Indian, said he had to ask his father whenever he had to fill in his race in a form.
“My father tells me to choose whichever I want but what defines my race is that I am a product of my father, so I would like to follow my father’s bloodline.
“Socially, I can be seen as Malay or Chinese but both works for me as ticking a box on a piece of paper does not define who I am.”…
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