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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 22. September 10 1979

Whinging Malaysians?

Whinging Malaysians?

Dear Sir,

I see all the whinging Malaysian-Chinese students (using their Malay non-de-plumes) trashing their garbage on the pages of Salient again!

Haven't they been convinced that they are foreign nationals in New, Zealand, and should behave as such? They do not seem to realise how moderate and tolerant New Zealanders are towards whinging foreigners. If only this were my country, I would personally go to any lengths to make sure that there is not a single grumbling foreign student left on this side of the 200-mile fishing limit.

I was very impressed by David K. Lo's letters that you have published a few weeks ago. Now there is a proud Malaysian student who should be a model to every foreign student in this country. My congratulations to David.

I know that most of the students from South East Asia (especially the stirrers among them) are not only filthy rich, but are darn lazy as well. There are several foreign students I know in New Zealand (mostly from the Pacific area) who pay their own way through varsity. Unlike any of the NOSAC stirrers they seem to be able to find vacation employment and save enough to see them through the following year. So what are these Malaysian student-radicals and their cronies third world over whinging about?

Talking about Malaysian student leaders from other countries, remember the one who visited these remote shores from an organisation by the name of the Federation of the United Kingdom and Eire Malaysian-Singaporean Students' Organisations, with the acronym FUEMSSO? Well, I reckon that a more correct and appropriate acronym for this hallowed organisation ought to be FUKEMSSO — Got it?

Yours Truely,

Abu Sajed.