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By Luk4all Editor
Posted
29th March 2008
My colleagues sent me these pictures and the below email thread.
Editor:
Later I think we will see this in Penang also..
Colleague 1:
The first road signboard written in Tamil and Chinese in Malaysia. Thanks to people who had made the change...
Just think from the view of 'user friendliness'. No body gets hurt by seeing this.
Editor:
Think this is a total waste of time and money unless it is for tourism
Colleague 1:
Same with me.
Colleague 2:
I totally disagree with you. I like to see Mandarin road sign. It give sense of belonging to Penangites. It educate the next generation the road name in Hokkien.
Editor :
BM is just fine with me
just dun change the names if it has a colonial or Chinese road name, we need a single identity to unite Malaysian, not multiple language
Colleague 1:
Language is not a problem, the problem is we are labeled as non-bumi or bumi
Editor:
Yeap you get the point. Changing road sign is a waste of time, now you are labeling road sign in Chinese/Malay/Indian, just like labeling bumi or non bumi or asking if you are Chinese, Indian, Malay or others. Just a waste of time. We are Malaysian, and we just need one common language to read road sign
What do you say?
Comments:
Well, putting up road-signs in multiple languages shows that we are multi-racial, which is the fact and something that we are proud of as a Malaysian. Better still, put up English as well.
3/29/2008 5:23:07 PM | kinko
Yes, the road signs in Malaysia should display all languages of Malaysians.It will be respected by all the races in the country as well as foreign tourists. They will tell the world that Malaysia is a multi-racial country.
3/30/2008 2:11:52 AM | wata
The road signs in Malaysia should be display in every languages in order to show to the world that our country is truly Malaysia !
Cintai -lah negara kita .
3/31/2008 2:58:50 PM | aru
let's vote for no changes. since we are multi-ethnic community, so why is there a need to change the road signs.
i poke at the idea of changing road names are rather a waste of time. there's lot of other ways to promote unification, starts with education system, etc...
name change will only trouble us. location and all have to be re-address again. if i were at abroad and comes back to malaysia, i would been lost... huh.. !!??
3/31/2008 2:58:44 PM | dleow
Some one must be kidding by putting up road signs in three languages, or they (DBKL) think they have lots of money to spend by changing the road signs.
Firstly I am against the change because it only reflect the diversity and not the cohesiveness of our society. We should be pround of being 'One made up of Three' concept, in terms of race. We should start thinking of non-racial lines in all things we do or otherwise how can we progress form where we are now to where we would like to be in the future. We would like to have a Malaysia that people can associate each other as Malaysian and not as a Malay, Chinese or Indian.
Do not let our ex-British colonial masters succeed in winning their antiquated concept of 'divide and rule', they are very good in putting spokes in the wheels in countries before they disappear from them and like so many other ex-British-ruled-countries they are paying the price of their ethnic troubles.
And secondly I am aginst wasting good money for something we should not do in the first place. If they think that the council has too much money then they should look into improving the services of garbage collections in the city, or cleaning of the dirty drains. Maybe they should look into the plight of the poor and the needy. (By the way I like the article on the defination of the poor).
Finally, I hope this exercise of changing road names is not an exercise to siphone council money out into someone's pocket. I am sure the whole exercise of changing ALL the roads signages will run into a very hugh sum of the citizen's money. BECAREFUL OF HOW GOOD MONEY IS SPENT.
4/8/2008 9:07:30 AM | Robin Hood
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