Face saving is a very imporant aspect of any race culture, especially to the oriental people. Losing face will bring disgrace to the family, and if you are from a well-known family, the disgrace and dishonour may bring tragedy.The Japanese. especially, shows how it is to lose face and harakiri is one way out for them. However another less horrible way is for those who have done wrong or brought disgrace, to voluntarily resign from their posts. The Malays too place great emphasis on face saving. However this doesn't seem to apply to the umno Malays. We have read of so many exposures of corruption, abuse of power and mismanagement, and yet the people involved are still holding onto their posts. And even when convicted, they still screamed that they are victims of conspiracy or people out to topple them. Among those recent ones who have 'lost face' are Zahrihat (cowgate), Khir Toyol, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom (abuse of RM32,150 in zakat money), Deputy Finance Minister, Awang Adek Hussin (depositing cash contributions into his own account), and others who are being investigated by the MACC.
What's wrong with these people? Dont' they know the meaning of shame? or most probably the sign of the ringgit, in millions, simply blocked whatever shame they have.
And have you ever realised that most of these top corrupted leaders are not the pure Malays, but 'celup' Malays. Khir Toyol is an Indonesian by birth and Zahrihat and Mahathir were Mamaks. So what does this mean? It simply means that the pure Malays are being conned by foreigners who came, convert into Muslims, conquer and 'rampas' whatever belongs to the Malays. Sure there are Malays who have also 'rampas', but they are only following the edict "what monkeys see, monkeys do" , and their 'rampasan' are peanuts. People like Mohamed Ghani Abdul Jiman of Penang (another mamak) who has been given a life-long task of bringing down Lim Guan Eng and Ibrahimm Ali are only foot soldiers, given peanuts to create diversions, so that the big guys at the top can have smooth passages to stash up treasures both in the country as well as overseas. (remember Taib and Zahrihat?). What do these people know about "Face Saving"?
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