As I read last week's Salient (Vol. 40 No. 4) about the comments put by fellow Malaysian students I can picture what MSA will be saying: "It's only an entertaining piece of sketch not aimed at anybody and so what the hell are they kicking up the fuss for??"

Excuses, excuses; these will be the common words words of the MSA. To this group of egotistic people, they will never admit they are wrong and have done a very great injustice to our Malaysian people (in this case the hawkers) So next time those in MSA when you are back home, go and live with those poor people and then you will see with your naked eyes how these hawkers struggled to lead an honest living. Then you will realise that the distorted view painted of our hawkers is an Unforgivable thing.

If you can't do anything for them (even though you believe in your great capacity to earn great money later on) then at least don't belittle their efforts to strive for a living. They are earning this type of living not because they want to but because circumstances force them to.

So I join hands with A Malaysian Hawker's Son in demanding a public apology from the promoters of the sketch.