LETTERS from Jimmy Phuah | Hudud a boulder in the path towards bangsa Malaysia The recent hudud debacle has exposed a critical fault-line in our nation-building process. Well-known anthropologist Benedict Anderson defined a nation as “an imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign”; that a nation is a socially constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of that group. Thus whether we feel we belong to a common nation becomes a subjective matter. We can only feel we are the same if we have common goal and certain shared values rooted in among others, geopolitical and cultural terms. Malaysia as a nation, is not young but 51 year old can hardly be construed as mature as well. We may have a state called Malaysia but that does not give rise automatically to a nation with citizens called Malaysians. We call ourselves Malaysians, but do we really all feel Malaysian? Full story: malaysiakini/letters/261889
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 13:00:01 +0000
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