𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫𝗘𝗦

𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫𝗘𝗦

1. Weekends I drive around Kuala Lumpur.

2. Sometime I drop in the shopping complexes.

3. KL’s shopping complexes are great.

4. The new ones are fantastic.

5. They are bigger and better than the shopping complexes in London or Tokyo.

6. The other day I dropped in one of the new ones.

7. Wow. It is great.

8. But suddenly I felt I was in China.

9. Then I realised why.

10. All the signboards are in Chinese with English translations.

11. Nothing in Malay. Not at all.

12. So is this Malaysia.

13. Or have we become a part of China.

14. English I can understand why.

15. Even in Japan signboards have English translations.

16. But big Chinese characters.

17. I was told that some Chinese TV refer to Malaysia as Little China.

18. Why?

19. Because among the Southeast Asian countries Malaysia displays the Chinese characters all over; large and prominent.

20. Must be because we have so many Chinese visitors.

21. But translation in small characters yes.

22. But our national language is Malay.

DR. MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD 

18 November 2024