MAY 2 — The self-appointed defenders of race and religion claim they incessantly work overtime to elevate the Malay race to parity in an unforgiving world.
The basic premise being, the affluent can opt out and permit the disadvantaged Malays/Bumiputeras to move up the queue. Statistically, families rise when they have their first graduate, a breaking the glass ceiling moment. So, if offspring from foreign-graduated parents opt out then poorer Bumiputera applicants with no uncle or auntie lawyers and doctors improve radically their chances to rewrite their families’ histories.Meanwhile, these new Bumiputera graduates lift whole families from PPRs to the stratosphere.
Open the tap for the rest first, they say. For this altruism they can be called the Independent Bumiputera, a class of people who can hack it on their own. And now choose to do so.