Thursday, November 10, 2005

Of Jobs and the Malay graduates...

Just a few days ago there were report of some sixty thousand Malay mostly woman graduates could not find jobs...It is an irony that in a country where there are full employment and some one million foreign workers working in this country that our graduates from the local universities could not find jobs in their own country....From the report it says one of the reason is that these graduates do not have the command of the English language, less self confidence then their counter part who graduated from foreign universities. Time and again it has been told that Malaysian youth must master the English Language but it look like it just left on deaf ears...I believe it is the responsibilities of the Local Universities to see that the product of their institution are of excellent quality and geared to the needs of the Market... At the same time the Malay community especially the young must take upon themselves to master the English language which would make them marketable...Why this is still happening I just could not comprehend...The report in the local newspaper .....The Malay community must take upon themselves to solved these problem that keep happening from years to years....A change in mind set would solved these problems and at the same time not to be over dependence on the government...It is only with a new mind set could the Malay community succeed like the other Malaysian do...The previous Prime Minister, Dr.Mahathir Mohd say that he had not been successful in changing the mind set of the Malay..He was the leader for the last twenty two years and He admit that He had failed, Why is it so...And now the new Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is still saying the same thing and I hope this time He would be successful...But I doubt it would happen if the Malay did not wake up to the reality of today's world..Their culture must change with time..They must accept the global culture like the other Malaysian do...In another word they must change their mind set...Like acquiring more knowledge, master the English language as well the most important Asian language, Mandarin...They should talk less about religion but instead practice more and more of the good value that their religion teaches..The world is getting global and any race that do not follow or get into the global culture, would be left behind...I would suggest that the Malay should continue to accumulate knowledge, open their mind as wide as possible, for this they should travel overseas and to as many countries as possible and read as much books in English and Mandarin or other languages...Another media that they should accept as their culture is the Internet, they must get use to the internet, where information are endless, for their future depend on themselves alone, not on the government spoon feeding them or other people, they have to help themselves ...The Chinese saying ' give a man a fish and he would live for a day, but teach him to fish, he would be able to fend for himself forever' So fellow friends, please do learn to fish...This is the only way toward success....

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