I personally do not believe Dr.Mahathir would be this foolish to put himself into such silly trouble. He is a long timer politician and know well how this country react to sensitive statement, thus deliberately invite retaliation might due to coercion from mightier power or simply wanted to extend his political mileage, dreaming to become Malaysia's Prime Minister the third time.
Technically, as medical doctor, he should know the possible reason for Malay race not as developed as Chinese culturally might due to different inbred cognitive ability. In this case, the development of chinese dining utensil can trace back to Shang Dynasty, 1200BCE, where Chinese started to dine with kuai zi (Chopstick) and Shao zi (soup spoon) that are uniquely Chinese whereas Malay still using hand to eat now. This might due to the lack of activation of anterior supramarginal gyrus (aSMG) of Malay that unable for them to converge upon different parts of dorsal and ventral visual stream, similar to that of macaques, however Malay is intelligently superior than macaques in the sense that their biological evolution had arrived bipedalism, early human ancestor, Australopithecus. Although Malay language is predominantly borrowed from foreign source but save to say it had fully developed into their own, meaning already reached hominid's evolution stage of homo habilis and erectus. However, Malay lacking in develop tools as compare to Chinese few thousands years ago imply the inbred cognitive ability of Malay ethnic/species as reflected by their lackings. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00310/full
I'm not subject matter in this area thus unable to conclude whether Malay is another species/subspecies or early human species such as between homo habilis, erectus and sapiens. However, Malay is a mixture of many races originally from Austronesian. Dr.Mahathir himself is a residue between Indian and Malay.
The need to develop dining utensil is also corresponding to how food is serve. Chinese developed porcelain soup spoon that designed for hot soup where flat surface allow faster cooling in greater volume of soup per scoop. However, Chinese is not the only early civilization that developed our own utensil, the west developed fork and spoon in variety shape and size specific to its purpose adopting by all worldwide, including the Malay. Are we forgoing Malaysia when we use fork, spoon and knife in dining?
I don't think need to remind Dr.Mahathir about Malaysia multicultural background come with different culture unless he think malay is superior that we (non-malay& nom-muslim) have to follow Malay's religion& culture strictly. Democracy means everyone is equal, not only every citizen carry equal potent vote but having equal right to practice our culture and profess in our religion freely. This may not congruence with constitution article 153&160 that under article 153, Malay is entitle special privileges where the race Malay is defined under article 160 as those that profess in Islam, conform with Malay custom and habitually speak Malay. This constitute some form of deprivation of freedom of religious believe, discrimination of race and cultural practice, as this may be view as quid pro quo that non-muslim citizen have to forgo for their religion believe.
I hope we all can unite to fight against any unjust discrimination and persecution on the basis of race and religion believe. I'm not sure about new Malaysia but fight back against absurd accusation may become an aberration for true democracy endeavor. NEP has been haunting the country since inception and thus it shall be repel along with article 3 (Islam as official religion of the federation) to avoid further obfuscation that clandestinely islamize the country into a theocratic& backward moving nation.
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