One Malaysia

What is One Malaysia? One Malaysia is an idea which has been inspired by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to overcome racial problems and issues. This idea is about uniting and integrating all citizens of Malaysia from all races and religion into one track towards peaceful and harmony Malaysia. It is to grow unity among various races in Malaysia based on particular important values that should become habit of every Malaysia citizens.

Nowadays, certain of Malaysian citizens sort themselves according by their races. Thus, it will lacerate the solidarity and create a gap between races. Furthermore, some of our people are only socialize with their own race and they were unlikely to be friendly to the other races. These factors are also adapted into our local economy sectors.

For an example, The Chinese employer will only hire Chinese employees to work in their company. As a result, Chinese are now dominating the commercial fields in Malaysia. Plus, it also caused other race such as Malay and Indian to have less opportunity to work in this field. Besides, it also causes our country become divisible and are not completely united.
To succeed the idea of One Malaysia, firstly, we need to understand the concept of One Malaysia. One Malaysia concept is based on the point that is to achieve the ‘developed country’ status as being suggested in Wawasan 2020, the main condition is a strong and stable country and this can only be achieved when all the citizens unite.

One Malaysia is the continuation agenda to build the country. To achieve development to the country, citizens need to be developed first, and this is started with molding the ‘accepting’ attitude between races, that leads to strong unity. When the unity achieved, national development process will run more smoothly. Other than that, in order to achieve One Malaysia idea, we need to understand too the bases of One Malaysia. There are few main basic of One Malaysia that we need to understand fully.

The first aspect is the application of unity cores. This is to apply the unity cores as the part of culture and habit of Malaysians. These unity cores are the basic components that strengthen the spirit of unity among various races in Malaysia. This unity core is supported by moral values that should underlie Malaysian lifestyle.

The second core is application of aspiration values. Aspiration values that are stated in One Malaysia concept is the values that should exist in our progressive and dynamic society that will drive our country towards achieving developed country status. These aspiration values will help in producing citizens who are able to compete efficiently in global surrounding, thus helping in increasing our country’s economical health.

As a conclusion, we should strongly agree with this idea of One Malaysia, and we as the citizens of Malaysia need to unite and become one in order to achieve One Malaysia, thus leading our beloved motherland towards peaceful, harmony, unity and integration among all different kind of races and ethnics in Malaysia.