Originally Posted by KAding

Nationalism is there for a reason in countries like Malaysia. If there were no common identity, there would be considerable obstacles to cooperation. After all, how could the collective be mobilized for the good of the whole community? Why would buddhists fight and serve to protect Muslims and vise versa for example? Putting Islam first does not dissolve cleavages, it only creates new ones and in multi-ethnic and multi-religious regions it creates more of them than it dissolves.

I think it's kind of true.... because before 1969 (Racial riots happened on 13.05.1969), the Chinese and Indians dont see themselves as Malaysians... even they have Malaysian citizenship.

From what I've heard before, if Malaysian team had a competition against India or China, the Indians would support India and Chinese would support China... not Malaysia.

But nowadays, the Chinese and Indians prefer to call themselves as Malaysians.