In Al Jazeera 101 East : Malaysian Affirmative Action

Choose 1 of the 3 guests featured on the talk show 101 East. Then apply discourse analysis. State whether you agree or disagree towards the proposition, premises and arguments that you have identified.

               
               Based on talk show 'In Al Jazeera 101 East : Malaysian Affirmative Action', I am choosing the first speaker Chow Kon Yeow who is a senior Democratic Action Party (DAP) representative from the three guests. The other speaker is Datuk Seri Dr. Ibrahim Saad, former Deputy Chief Minister of Penang and Professor Azeem Farouk, a political lecturer at University Science of Malaysia (USM). By using discourse analysis, here are the conclusion, proposition, premise and argument.

Conclusion : Most Malaysians are unhappy and not agree about the approaches of NEP.

Proposition : NEP is not a bad policy as the implementation is the one that is unsuitable to Malaysian.

Premise 1 : NEP has many abuses and corruption is one of it in terms of giving the speciality.

Argument : NEP mostly is given to politically connected people rather than the other Malays and Bumiputras.

Premise 2 : Keadilan will set Malaysian Economic Agenda (MEA) to replace NEP.

Argument : Make new policies by comparing to NEP performance in the past two or three decades.

         I am disagreed with Chow Kon Yeow preposition about NEP because he just gives opinion for Chinese advantages and not for Malays. Therefore, people believe with UMNO and NEP because it helps them and not like he was trying to convey. Besides, he said that NEP just has many abuses and corruption, but other parties also have corruption.