选择移民。
在澳洲的好友最近写信给我：
希望一切安好。我注意到马来西亚政治人物终于意识到人才流失问题到了一个严重地步。正如我之前多次提到，如果观察任何一所澳洲大学的研究生院，都会发现有马来西亚学生（包括越来越多的马来人），他们的专业知识是马来西亚永远无法受惠的。
一些轶事：
- 昨天我预约了一名眼料医生，以检查是否患有青光眼（幸好无事）。这专科医生是一名华人，是移民到澳洲的马来西亚华人的女儿。
- 我谘询的心脏科医生，现在是心脏病学教授，以及为我治疗听力的专科医生，两人都是出生于马来西亚的华人。我的牙医是印度裔，也是于马来西亚出生的。
- 我以前在吉隆坡时的佣人儿子（印度裔）是吉隆坡德士司机。他确保三个儿子在学校都表现出色。3个儿子都取得了能够进入马来西亚大学的成绩。他们获得了新加坡奖学金，这是马来西亚的损失。
- 我们的马来西亚“养女”（印度裔；一位好友的女儿）在阿德莱德获得了3个学位，现在担任高级职位。 其拥有工程荣誉学位（在澳洲获得）的哥哥，也计划留在这里。
我严重怀疑针对人才流失的任何补救措施，是否会能产生任何效果。多年后才采取行动，为时已晚。
另一位好友回应了有关移民一事
这些移民的现实生活故事说明了，您除了离开之外别无选择的观点。我也强调同样的一点。你友人的评论也说出了一些真正重要的话：“针对人才流失的任何补救行动都不会产生任何效果。多年后才采取行动，为时已晚”，说得好。
表面补救措施，骗不了人。讽刺的是，那些制定了引发人才外流，并继续著这些种族主义政策的马来精英，却前往澳洲等地，从移民到澳州的马来西亚华人和印度人的专家那里获得治疗。马来西亚的政治环境长期以来就是这样，你无法在马来西亚就此类问题进行理性的辩论。对于马来人来说，逃避现实可能会很好。就接受吧。
对于打算留下来的人之选择
关于国家的未来，著名的马来部落客尤索夫阿都拉曼警告说：“马来精英将不惜一切代价保住权力并维持/增加他们的财富和影响力，即使这意味著制造种族和宗教冲突。 他们完全没有良心。封建主义和封建思想只是他们的另一个工具”
在可见到的短期和长远的未来，我们可以预期，随著马来人和土著人口的增长，将为保留甚至进一步加强基于种族的社会和经济政策，提供了理由。
非马来人和自由派土著将不得不接受这样一个事实：政府，无论是目前的政治联盟还是任何反对派组成的新政治联盟，在第16届全国大选之后，都将拒绝废除马来人的优惠政策体系。
这意味著选择不移民的非马来人将不得不屈从于二等公民的地位，除非他们反抗。自由派马来人面临著的困境相对较小，他们主要是反对伊斯兰至上主义所带来的限制性宗教环境。
希盟上台掌权，说明了透过选票可带来政治变革。但正如我们看到的，政治变革下的希盟团结政府，如果不伴随著思维方式、政策和实践的改变，仅仅政治变革是不够的。
以下是为非马来人和土著争取回归平等、公正和世俗社会的建议
●将“马来人至上主义”和“伊斯兰教至上主义”议题置于公众讨论的最前线，这包括司法机关的运作和行为，不应有任何领域被视为禁忌或不当。
●公开挑战种族主义文化和马来人至上政治，并讨论大众如何更好地对应之。
●至少有五个重要群体，可以对种族霸权主义发声，并提出反击见解。这些组织为：
─宗教机构可唤起其信徒拒绝种族主义的意识
─学术界可揭露意图打造或延续种族霸权统治的政策、实践、法律和制度结构
─媒体可通过新闻报导和独立分析揭露这些事件
─智库应识别出民族民粹主义和民族至上主义的意识形态和思想家，并反击他们的政见
─公民社会组织应表态拒绝种族性的政策和计划，并宣扬多元族群的包容性社会
在下一届全国大选之前，关心此事的民众应向主要政党施压，要求其表明对马来人和伊斯兰至上主义的立场。同时，也应该要求各政党在竞选宣言中表明对制度性种族主义和宗教至上的立场，以及如何应对这些问题的措施。
最终，反对单一族群政治和马来霸权的斗争，将落在选择不移民的年轻一代身上。他们将不得不付出比他们父母那一代人更多的努力。
林德宜《移民和反抗：对抗马来霸权的选择》原文：Migration and Fighting Back as Options Against Ketuanan
The Migration Option
A good friend from Australia recently wrote to me this:
I hope all goes well. I note that the Malaysian politicians have finally decided that the brain drain has become critical. As I've mentioned several times before, if one examines the postgraduate departments of any Australian university, one will encounter Malaysian students, (including increasing numbers of Malays), whose expertise will never be enjoyed by Malaysia. A few anecdotes:
- yesterday I attended a specialist appointment regarding possible glaucoma (of which I was cleared). The specialist, ethnic Chinese, was the daughter of Malaysians who migrated to Australia.
- The cardiologist who I consulted,now a Professor of Cardiology, was born in Malaysia. Similarly a hearing specialist who diagnosed my hearing loss. Both ethnic Chinese. My dentist, ethnic Indian, is of Malaysian birth.
- The son (ethnic Indian) of my former KL amah is a teksi driver in KL. He ensured all 3 of his sons excelled in school. All of them received results that should have gained them places in Malaysian universities. They were offered Singapore scholarships and have been lost to Malaysia.
- Our 'adopted' Malaysian daughter, (ethnic Indian; daughter of a close friend), gained 3 degrees in Adelaide, and now has a senior appointment. Her brother with an honours degree in Engineering (obtained in Australia) plans to remain here.
I have my severe doubts that any remedial action regarding the brain drain will have any effect at all. That horse bolted years ago.
Another good friend responded on the migration option
These real life stories [of migration] illustrate your point about no option but to leave. I underscore the same point. Your commentator also says something else of real consequence: “no remedial action about the brain drain will have any effect at all. That horse bolted years ago.” Well said.
Cosmetic remedies no longer fool any one. Part of the magnificent irony is that the very Malay elites who created the racist policies that triggered the brain drain and continue to feed it will travel to places like Australia and get their specialist care from Malaysian Chinese and Indian specialists who have migrated. The political climate in Malaysia has long been such that you cannot have a rational debate about such issues in Malaysia. Burying your head in the sand may work well for Malays. So be it.
Options for those Intending to Stay
On the nation's future, the following warning was sounded by a prominent Malay blogger, Yusuf Abdul Rahman “The Malay elites will do anything to stay in power & to maintain/increase their wealth & positions of influence, even if it means creating racial & religious strife. They have absolutely no conscience. Feudalism & feudal thinking is just another tool to them”
In the immediate and longer term future we can expect that the growing majority population and voters of Malays and Bumiputera will provide justification for the retention, and even further strengthening of racially based social and economic policies. Non-Malays and liberal Bumiputra have to live with the fact that the government, whether the present political coalition or any new one based on the opposition, after GE16, will reject any dismantling of the system of preferential policies for the Malays.
What this means is that non-Malays who choose not to migrate will have to resign themselves to second class status as citizens unless they fight back. A less difficult dilemma faces liberal Malays who are in opposition to the restrictive religious environment that has come with ketuanan Islam.
Political change through the ballot box is possible as shown by current Pakatan rule. But political change alone as we can see from the PH unity government is not enough if not accompanied by a change in mindsets and policies and practices.
The following are actions that non-Malays and concerned Bumiputra have to undertake in the fight to return the nation to an equal, just and secular society
● Put the issues of ketuanan Melayu and ketuanan Islam into the forefront of public discourse. There should be no sector that should be regarded as taboo or improper in raising, including the operations and conduct of the judiciary.
● Openly challenge the culture of racism and politics of Malay supremacy and discuss how best the public can fight it
● There are at least five important groups of voices that can shine their own light on the ketuanan and racism cancer and lead in fighting against it. These are:
- The religious institutions by raising the consciousness of their religious constituencies in rejecting racism
- The academic community through the exposure of policies, practices, laws and institutional structures that create or perpetuate it
- The media through news coverage and fearless analysis
- The think-tanks in identifying ethno-populist and ethno-supremacist ideologies and ideologues and rebutting their interpretation of policies and conduct
- Civil society organisations through rejection of race related policies and programmes and by propagating a multi-racially inclusive society
Before the next GE, concerned public members should pressure the nation’s political parties to declare their stand on ketuanan Melayu and ketuanan Islam. There should be a demand for parties to reveal in their manifestos the party position on institutionalised racism and their plan on how to counter it.
Ultimately the fight against the ethnocratic and Malay hegemonic state will have to rest on the shoulders of the younger generation who choose not to migrate. They will have to fight much harder than their parents have done.
