Going beyond a 'Malaysian Malaysia'

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Kit (Lim Kit Siang) defined DAP’s vision for a Malaysia that belongs to all from very early on. Much as the party is maligned as fighting for non- Malay interests through the ‘Malaysian Malaysia’ idea, particularly that of the Chinese, the vision he laid out in the 1960s and continues to uphold is much more than the caricature version put forward by his opponents. To him, on the one hand, it is about convincing the Malays that Malaysia is also home to non-Malays as they love this nation as much as anyone else; on the other hand, it is also about convincing the non-Malays that the struggle is not to fight for any racial interest but for the common interest of all Malaysians.On the Malay front, the opponents were Malay right-wing groups, including many in Umno who saw non-Malays as outsiders to our nationhood and sowed anxieties among Malays that non- Malays were threatening the…