Time for Caution

Star Q

i.  Bengkel Memperkasa ICT

ii.  All for the Sake of Money

iii.  Whitebait Fritters with Nuoc Cham

We all know that there is a price to pay for all the development that is happening in our beloved country, though sadly the term beloved is not felt by everyone living in this country, be they the ones who were born here or foreigners.

 

The recent news about Malaysia signing a memorandum of understanding with Bangladeshi authorities regarding the bringing in of one and a half million workers from Bangladesh.  I focus on the word Malaysia here because the bringing of these foreign workers is not the shortsighted decision of more than thirty million Malaysian citizens.  However, it is the decision of a few people (not even one percent) who may well have something to benefit from this deal.

And I say shortsighted because I don't really think that these people are aware of the implications of bring in so many foreign workers from one particular country.  But then again, like I mentioned earlier, they may not even care because they probably have something to gain.

Imagine 1.5 million male workers from Bangladesh coming to work here for a long period of time.  These people who agreed to bring the Bangladeshis cannot possibly curb and curtail any sort of desire swelling inside these men after months of deprivation.  I shudder to think of the consequences of this pent-up emotions.

Then there is the culture that they bring that may not be suitable with our own culture.  We have seen many evidences of crimes on the increase caused by foreigners.  Suffice to say that we have read in the media about them on more than a few occasions.  

And I fear that when all these things start to appear one by one, the authorities who initially agreed to bring them in, will be living a safe and happy life somewhere, leaving the poor citizens of Malaysia to fend for themselves and struggle to defend this country.   Because, unlike those filthy rich people who make money from bringing in these foreign workers and can settle down somewhere else in the world, we underlings only have this country, Malaysia, to call home.