I refer to Arbibi Ashoy's letter , where he lamented the racial composition of unemployed grads as being 78 percent bumiputera, 18 percent Chinese and two percent Indian.

I think that is normal and reasonable, given that the racial composition of the population is about 60 percent bumiputeras, 28 percent Chinese and 12 percent Indians.

It has already been stated many times, that the higher proportion of unemployed bumiputeras is mainly due to the incompatibility of skills possessed by them and those actually required by employers.

How can you force job market demands to change to suit another's race quota system? Sorry, I presume Arbibi is advocating such a system. If I am wrong, I stand corrected.

Anyway, we already have enough of these quotas in the education, government civil service, housing and other sectors. The whole idea is to try to move away from this quota system, not add to it.

So today's employers are looking for Mandarin-speaking job applicants. Tomorrow, they could be searching for Tamil-speaking job-seekers instead. These are dynamic forces at work here.

One day it was the IT boom, next day the IT bubble burst. Now it could be biotech, next it could be Timbuktu.

The key thing is to be adaptable and move with the times. Many unemployed graduates are static and complacent - that is the real problem.