COMMENT | Doesn’t it fill you with despair when a Merdeka Center survey of young Malaysians showed that 73 percent of Malay respondents wanted to retain special rights for bumiputera folk?

While the parents and grandparents of those who took part in the survey may have fought for equal treatment and multiculturalism, their grandchildren and children were only thinking of themselves. What happened to nation-building? How does one alter their mindset?

That is why the Merdeka Center survey reads like a tragedy when some Malay respondents unknowingly admitted their inferiority...