6. Idiocracy: A form of government familiar to Malaysians. Beyond corruption and communal interests, it is carelessness, waste and stupidity that are the greatest impedements to the achievement of good governance. Of course, there is no denying that corruption and the shameless expresession of communal inerests can lead to Idiocracy.
2. Ethnocracy: A form of government based on communalism. It is more widespread than you might think. Sometimes it is an explicit premise, at other times, it is just an unstated reality. Wherever the communal organization is stated explicitly in law, we find the formal ethnocracy that we call apartheid.
Here are three instances of legislated ethnocracy – 1) Canada, the quintessential settler-colonial ethnocracy, based on the Indian Act, status identity cards, and native reservations, upon which South African apartheid was based. 2) Malaysia, where there is a constitutionally enshrined ‘special position’ for the indigenous Malays by which they assert their supremacy over immigrant Indians and Chinese who settled under the auspices of colonial rule. 3) Israel, where there is an ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands effected through an apartheid system that involves limiting the Palestinian’s right to movement, denying them the right to vote, and subjecting them to a separate legal system. The seal was set on this ethnocracy, when Israel passed a law in 2018, symbolically affirming that it was the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Teka Teki: Malaysia, Canada, Israel; Apa Persamaannya? Jawapan: Semuanya mengamalkan Ethnocracy!
After a cartoon by Zunar re-presented in sil!sos.my
1136 – Kesultanan Kedah bermula dengan pertabalan Sultan Mudzafar Shah I 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque mengambil Kota Melaka 1957 – Merdeka! 1971 – Dasar Ekonomi Baru diasaskan. 1981 – Dr. Mahathir Mohamad menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia.
Kebangsaan Anugerah dari raja-raja, melalui perantaraan si penjajah; Rakyat bersama membina negara, demi keutuhan agama dan bangsa … … lerainya ketuanan seorang dua. Ya saya!
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