Nation-building lessons from a song


IT’S depressing and sad to see all the mistrust and hatred in Malaysian politics nowadays.

A simple misunderstanding over religious issues, for instance, blown up to national proportions for likes, political mileage, and the chance to boast about being a racial or religious “hero” – how did we come to this? And is this how we are going to be for the next 50 years? Or 100 years?

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