Last week, there was an influx of letters from malaysiakini readers bashing pro-bumiputera policies and directly or indirectly insulting through extreme sarcasm the abilities of bumiputera through rhetoric such as ' give them extra points ' or 'face it non-bumis have higher tendency to excel' and most insulting ' the percentage of Malays accepted into local universities has increased every year '.

For LCH , a common contributor to malaysiakini 's Letters section, and who is seemingly against all form of affirmative action policies, I would strongly suggest that he follow the footsteps of most of his family members and friends who have already migrated overseas.

After all, if there is such a place that fits the utopian mentality of the bumi-bashers, why wouldn't they go there? Why keep your children 'horrified'?

I find it truly insulting when writers cite personal experiences and hear-say, and use that to make collective judgments on the whole system. Likewise, as an academically successful bumiputera myself, non-bumis would not want me to cite my personal experiences competing against non-bumis and use that as a basis to claim bumi superiority. Would they?

For all non-bumis who like to complain about government policies, and for all international (non-Malaysian) readers who have developed a mentality that non-bumis are in a 'living hell', I wish to remind you that approximately every five years, we have a general election.

During the election, 30 percent of Chinese and about two percent of Indians will vote. Every five years, these non-bumis have the opportunity to select the government they want. In fact, in 1999, when the bumiputera votes were so divided, the non-bumis had the chance of a lifetime - if they wanted it - to select a totally new government.

Instead, they chose the current government and that basically gives mandate to the government to continue the NEP policy. It is after all the same government.

Again, in the latest election, non-bumis continued to give the current government a mandate to continue the so-called 'brain draining' NEP policies. And what was the main issue brought up and hotly debated in the last election campaign concerning non-bumis?

Was it about meritocracy? Bumiputera quota in companies? No. It was on keeping Chinese schools open. In my opinion, if the issue of brain drain, meritocracy and affirmative action are really big issues as made out by some writers to malaysiakini 's Letters section, then why weren't these issues brought up in the previous elections?

As far as most are concerned, the views of the likes of LCH represent a small group of utopian minority among the non-bumis. So stop the bumi-bashing letters.