When he became Prime Minister seven months ago, Datuk Seri Najib Razak came out with the slogan of 1Malaysia.
It was an admission of the failure of 52-year nation-building to create a Malaysian citizenry forged by a common Malaysian consciousness and identity, transcending their ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic differences.
The Biro Tata Negara (BTN) is one important factor for this failure in Malaysian nation-building.
In Parliament in March this year, I read out an indignant email from a recent participant in BTN course, on how BTN operated as the propaganda arm of UMNO, pumping communal poison instead of spreading the message of national unity.
The complaints against the BTN included:
Their purpose is to convey THEIR Message to us but I think they are absolutely wrong. It made us more irritable towards BN government and make us more stronger to vote opposition.
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