The letter by Mordred Pendragon, [#1] Sacrifice for the greater good [/#] (Feb 24), sounds patriotic, but on second thought, is it?

He says: "When are we non-Malays prepared to put our country before our own race?" If he is genuinely patriotic and non-racial, why didn't he say "we Malaysians" instead?

If the promotion of one sole language for all schools is supposed to create a united nation, then what happened to our neighbor Indonesia? Are the citizens united? Or do they have the worst ethnic riots in this region time and again? What about the racial situation in the United States (Barisan Nasional's favourite whipping boy) and Bosnia?

Is there any difference between a Chinese/Tamil/Malay-only school where students of the same race get together and a mixed-race school where students of the same race stick together anyway? Shouldn't the message that the school is imparting to its students matter most, rather than whether the school is vernacular-based or not?

Does being in a national school make the students more united due to the language they are being taught in, or are they more affected by what the language, any language, is used to convey?

I fully agree with the writer's view that "we need to move forward". However, isn't the way forward for us Malaysians is to find unity in diversity?

Then again, perhaps the writer has exposed the real reason behind the SRJK (C) Damansara closure - for the economy's future expansion.