Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Propaganda

'Propaganda is neutrally defined as a systematic form of purposeful persuasion that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of specified target audiences for ideological, political or commercial purposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages (which may or may not be factual) via mass and direct media channels'
— Richard Alan Nelson, A Chronology and Glossary of Propaganda in the United States

whether we realise or not, we have been seeded with propaganda by the gov as early as we enter the school. like in Sarawak, we asked to sing state anthem which includes phase ''Sarawak dalam malaysia' which means Sarawak is a state of malaysia. this a lie because Sarawak together with Sabah, Singapore and malaya formed mlysia. thus, we are an equal partner of malaya. not a state. Sabah and Sarawak are supposedly above malaya states.

through education ministry using history subject in secondary school, students are taught history of official religion of msia (official religion except Sarawak) and their golden age for half a year while the other religions only taught in 2 pages in history textbook. students in higher institutions are compulsory to learn and pass the official religion civilization. for other religions faith believers, attending the class if like seeing yourself been stabbed. the class is full with hatred by the lecturers by making fun of other races & religions. this daylight brainwashing only would create polarization among students. undeniable students different races didnt mix with each other.

since dayaks came from rural areas, the gov use the village heads and most of them are uneducated (older generation). these village heads are easily manipulate by the gov by creating in their mind 'we should not against the gov'. but then who is the gov? who elect the gov? people! who ever chose by the people is the gov, why the present gov is afraid losing their power? position leads to money, money is symbol of wealth and status. simply as that. during elections, the gov through village heads would distribute cheap goodies like kain, a few of atap zinc, a few ringgits and not forgetting lot of other promises which are took several elections to be fulfilled. this propaganda is called 'politik pemansang' @ development politic. yet this propaganda works for every elections! if the gov gave rm 100 during the election, this means his life for 5years ( 1 parliment session) is rm 20/year. their life and time can be bought easily and it only worth rm 100

the fact also the gov tried to lure other religions especially the natives to convrt. this especially happened as they asked the natives to convrt if they want to be helped. this is discrimination as the natives/citizens deserve the development regardless their religion. why only will help if they adherent the same religion with you? is it because for you we are lower class/servants/slaves? i believe none other religions would try to influence adherent of official religion to apostate them. we knew we are minority but do not suppress us. respect each others. respect is vice versa and this lead to harmony.

the gov also propagate their values towards the others. usually this values close to the religion. but sometime does not. there is people labelled me as close-minded and dont want to get values/attitudes from mly. let me us you, are we like the so-called wira perkasam? campaigned saying that their rights under seiged from by nonnatives. what values we should get from such people? keep staying about their supremacy but actually holier than thou.

'Those who champion ketuanan Melayu should concentrate on the Malay community and seek answers for the following:- Malays lacking aspiration; Malay girls outperforming boys; Malay men abrogating responsibilities towards their family, spending money on successively younger wives, leaving families severely disadvantaged; high divorce rates in Malay marriages;
Most drug addicts and HIV/AIDS sufferers are Malays; abandoned babies are primarily Malays; incest, rape and sexual crimes are committed mainly by Malays. Why not sort out your priorities, clean up your own house first and stop pointing fingers?
Sadly, few Malays are willing to admit the faults within them but would rather lay the blame on other races. And please stop brandishing the keris about. They are revered items, as any good Malay knows, and should never be used in a cheap publicity gimmick' - Mariam Mokhtar

that is the reason we should emulate values/attitudes from the established and proven successful people like Jews, Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Whites and perhaps indians.

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