PM Mahathir tells young to forget race and be 'pure Malaysian'

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad wants Malaysia's young citizens to forget racial origins and think of themselves as "pure Malaysians".

In an interview with Channel NewsAsia on Monday (Jun 25), Dr Mahathir was asked what he could promise millennials about the Malaysia they will be living in in the years to come.
 
"(Malaysia is) not only multiracial, it is multilingual, multireligious, multicultural," he said. "Despite the differences, we still live together, more or less at peace with each other (but) of course, there are little conflicts ... and I think this is what they are going to inherit."
 
He said Malaysians "have to learn to understand each other".
 
"And to forget - slowly forget the racial origins and think of themselves as pure Malaysians."
 
Ethnic Malays like Dr Mahathir and indigenous people make up close to 70 per cent of the population with almost a quarter of the country Chinese. The rest are Indians as well as from other ethnic groups. 
 
Source : Channel News Asia