Speaker of the House Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia did the right thing in rejecting a motion by MP Ibrahim Ali to discuss the decision of DAP-led Penang state government to put up road signs in multilingual. What a big deal about putting up road signs in different languages? Apparently Ibrahim Ali thought that it is an insult to the status of national language if road signs are in languages other than Bahasa Malaysia.
Road sign is just a road sign, as long as the main ones are written in national language, what so wrong about having similar road signs with other commonly used languages such as Mandarin, English, Jawi or Tamil. Doesn't it reflect the diversification of a multi-cultural society? Tourism hot spots like Penang, Melaka etc should in fact put up multilingual road signs so that it would reflect our multi racial and cultural heritage. Only people with narrow mind would think that multilingual road sign is an insult to national language as they do not treasure the beauty of multicultural society. Or put in another way, some politicians are simply politicising patty issues like this to get attention. Why not these MPs take a trip to big towns in Sarawak like Kuching or Miri where road signs are well presented in multilingual since years ago.
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dont give a fuck about these idiots, they dont know that the world is changing faster than they can imagine,they are still coconning in their ketuanan here and ketuanan there, i would label them just that "stupid"
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