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Someone sent me this photo. I don't know who took the photo or whether it is genuine.
If it is true, then Kelab Golf Negara Subang needs to explain to the public why its membership is based on ethnicity ? Is there a racial quota for membership ? Or is the price scheme a mechanism to attract or dispel people from certain ethnic groups? Looking at the photo, the "lain-lain" seem to have the best deal.
I don't play golf - so I do not know whether a Chinese golfer will damage the grass more or whether a Malay golfer will whack his caddy or whether an Indian golfer will fall asleep on the greens. Nevertheless I am curious to know why there is the price of membership differentiated based on race.
Is the photo true ? Is the race-based membership true ? Anyone from KGNS care to explain ?
Monyet King also says
Remember a few months ago - the hotel in KL that would not accept Malaysians or people from South Asia and the Middle east. The Ministry of Tourism and DBKL paid them a visit and told them to change that racist policy. In the case of KGNS, it would be interesting to see if the government would intervene. But then again, KGNS is home to many of the rich and famous, so don't expect either BN or Pakatan to care too much. But I would love to be proven wrong.
Added later
KGNS has clarified. According to a report in the Malaysian Insider today, KGNS president Tan Sri Megat Najmuddin Megat Khas said the notice in the picture was put out by a finance company and had nothing to do with the club.
However he said KGNS has racial quotas in place to “ensure a good mix of races in its membership”. Due to the race quotas, a member can only sell his or her membership to a person of the same race but at any price they wished and the rates in the notice could be reflective of supply and demand among the different racial groups. The current quota at KGNS is Malays (45 per cent), Chinese (35 per cent) and Indians and others (20 per cent).
Monyet King asks “why there is no quota for monyets ?”
Someone sent me this photo. I don't know who took the photo or whether it is genuine.
If it is true, then Kelab Golf Negara Subang needs to explain to the public why its membership is based on ethnicity ? Is there a racial quota for membership ? Or is the price scheme a mechanism to attract or dispel people from certain ethnic groups? Looking at the photo, the "lain-lain" seem to have the best deal.
I don't play golf - so I do not know whether a Chinese golfer will damage the grass more or whether a Malay golfer will whack his caddy or whether an Indian golfer will fall asleep on the greens. Nevertheless I am curious to know why there is the price of membership differentiated based on race.
Is the photo true ? Is the race-based membership true ? Anyone from KGNS care to explain ?
Monyet King also says
Remember a few months ago - the hotel in KL that would not accept Malaysians or people from South Asia and the Middle east. The Ministry of Tourism and DBKL paid them a visit and told them to change that racist policy. In the case of KGNS, it would be interesting to see if the government would intervene. But then again, KGNS is home to many of the rich and famous, so don't expect either BN or Pakatan to care too much. But I would love to be proven wrong.
Added later
KGNS has clarified. According to a report in the Malaysian Insider today, KGNS president Tan Sri Megat Najmuddin Megat Khas said the notice in the picture was put out by a finance company and had nothing to do with the club.
However he said KGNS has racial quotas in place to “ensure a good mix of races in its membership”. Due to the race quotas, a member can only sell his or her membership to a person of the same race but at any price they wished and the rates in the notice could be reflective of supply and demand among the different racial groups. The current quota at KGNS is Malays (45 per cent), Chinese (35 per cent) and Indians and others (20 per cent).
Monyet King asks “why there is no quota for monyets ?”
8 comments:
I wonder what their excuse possibly for putting the price for Indians at the highest. I see no logic in this.
If this is true, then they are putting elitism at a totally different level, eh? If monyet or kucing apply would they accept or not? purrr....meow!
YRH, imagine another racist club discriminates against Malay membership ... all hell will break loose. may be YRH shd call the nos listed there to clarify ... pretend u wanna play golf wakakaka!
Hazidi, Cat & Pinsysu,
pls read the clarification by KGNS which I have appended at the end of the post.
There is no quota for monyets but there is a quota for lembus.
Hmmm. Does this mean that the Indian quota is in high demand?
Indian golfers can tahan hot2 sunlight so...so...pay more , ok ??
Aprtheid in Bolehland also works the other way around. Provided they do not seem to be migrant workers, foreigners are charged more at some public (not private) places of interest. The guy at the counter will check out Malaysians they are unsure of discreetly by asking some casual question in BM, such as where (meaning which town) you are from.
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