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Is it true that there is no such thing as Indians and it is only Tamils who are abominable?
Nehru Satyamurthy
“India is not really a country. Rather, it is 32 separate countries that happen to be located along British railway lines.” – Lee Kuan Yew
A new controversy seems to have emerged among Indians in Malaysia, this time relating to the terms “Indian” and “Tamil”.
according to communicationa section of the Tamils here claim that there is no Indian race at all, only the Tamil race.
In response to their allegations, MIC Youth and some non-governmental organisations have urged the police to investigate several TikTok videos for allegedly spreading hate speech against the Indian community in Malaysia.
Is it true that there is no such thing as Indians and it is only Tamils who are abominable?
Before we discuss whether the rhetoric from these factions is hateful, let’s investigate whether it is true.
You see, they say that if you break anything down far enough, you’ll eventually end up with nothing, and once you have nothing, you can turn it into anything.
Science used to think that the atom was the smallest unit of existence, but then they broke it down into subatomic particles, and today, I think they have even broken down the subatomic particles into sub-subatomic particles, and at the rate they are going, scientists will soon be able to say that when they look into the source of a thing, they find that the core of anything is nothing, so everything came from nothing and has the potential to become everything.
If an intelligent person can, through clever rhetoric, say that everything is essentially made of nothing because the atoms that make up everything are themselves made of nothing, then how difficult would it be for someone to argue that a sociopolitical term like “Indian” is also meaningless?
After all, from a certain perspective you could indeed say that there are no Indians at all, because, as Lee Kuan Yew said, India is basically just 32 countries connected by a railway system created by the British.
But if you hold this view, then you can also say that Malaysians do not exist either, because the name Malaysian only came into being after the establishment of Malaysia in 1963. If you told anyone before 1963 that the Chinese in Malaysia and the Kayans in Sarawak were the same ethnic group, they would have no idea what you meant.
But just because the term Malaysian has only been around for about 60 years, does that mean you and I are not Malaysians? Does that mean I am just Indian and you are just Chinese or Malay, and there is no meaningful connection between you and me, because only races such as Indian, Chinese and Malay provide meaningful connections, while nationalities such as Malaysian are just imaginary concepts with no basis in reality?
Even if your answer is yes, you can’t stop there because then you will have to explore what races like Indian, Chinese or Malay represent, and I am sure that if you delve deep enough into the concept of race, you will find that even the concept of race is not supported by anything concrete.
Is there really a “Malay” race? Or is the term Malay basically just a general term for Bugis, Minangkabau, Javanese, etc., without any meaning or importance in itself? Or is the term “Malay” just a Constitutional ConstructionDid this only come about after the 1957 constitution was ratified, as Mahathir likes to claim?
Beijing believes that the people of Tibet, Xinjiang, Manchuria and Mongolia are all Chinese, but Tibetans, Uighurs, Manchus and Mongolians are unlikely to fully agree with this view.
Today, even some people who used to claim to be Chinese say the opposite.
For example, if you go to Hong Kong, some people who didn’t mind saying they were Chinese in the past now say they are not Chinese, but Hong Kong people. To them, mainlanders are Chinese, and they are not mainlanders. At the rate Taiwanese are developing, they will probably no longer be Chinese in a few generations. They are so insistent on not being Chinese today that Taiwanese seem willing to start World War III just to not have to unify with China and identify themselves as Chinese again.
At the end of the day, I guess that’s why people say the messenger is as important as the message itself. Intent is important. We can only decipher the meaning of a word by judging its intent. If we don’t know the intent behind the word, the word is just a string of vowels and consonants without any soul or spirit.
I have mentioned before that if Indians do not unite we will Extinction.
We know that there were identity groups in history such as the Etruscans, Mayans, Yavana, Gauls, Saxons, etc., but these groups no longer exist today because at some point in their history they either 1) became extinct, 2) were swallowed up by a larger and more powerful race or nation, or 3) had to combine their group identity with other identity groups in order to become stronger or stop becoming weaker.
If the Indian people remain ununited, we too will meet the same fate.
A faction among Malaysian Indians has already started to split Indians into smaller groups, which is a harbinger of what is to come.
University politics is more brutal than national politics precisely because the stakes are so low. Henry Kissinger
What Kissinger is saying here is that you can’t just assume that politics affects people who have a lot to gain, but that it affects people who have everything to lose even more.
although UMNO leader Tok Mat lamented As Malay politics is heading towards desolation and ruin due to the evil and toxic politics in the Malay political milieu, let us not forget that Indian politics is heading in the same direction for exactly the opposite reasons.
Malay politics is heading for destruction because Malays fight by hook or by crook to gain everything, while Indians fight even more fiercely because we are afraid of losing everything.
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