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If this is true of what is tweeted - that when a Malay wins a Bronze Olympic medal it is a great celebration, and when a Chinese wins a Silver medal it is just a silver medal and not good enough a win?

Or is this made to mean that a Malay is as good as gold when the standard is low and that a Chinese is as good as bronze when the Malay-Muslim nation has spent so much on his training, and that as a ‘pendatang’ or immigrant, he/she ought to win big to make the Malay-Muslim state look good in the eyes of the world? Is this what the role of the media - to destroy nations and not to build them?

A good distraction from the case of the massive corruption but not a good reporting for a nation in need of reconciliation. But then again, race-based parties continue to be crafted and registered for the next general election - as if we have not progressed much ideologically, still using the same old-same-old-ho-hum-yawnful strategies to move the country to the next level, ie ‘issues-based’ rather than ‘race-based’ politics.

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