Bahasa dan Kita

Since, it's the holidays, I have a lot of time to tengok itu dan tengok ini on facebook. And I've realized that most youths nowadays prefer using English as their communicator to others. Is that correct? Agak ah kan. The reason why I use English more than BM is because my english is a thousand times better than my BM. But kadang kala saya menggunakan juga bahasa ibunda aku. Sebagai bukti menyatakan my english is better than my bm, I got an A for english and a D for my BM for last year's exam. Tahun ini pula, I got an A for english and a C for BM. Alhamdulillah ada peningkatan. Bagi aku C tu cukup baguslah. At least my hardwork ada juga hasil dia.

But persoalan saya ialah, orang guna bahasa orang putih sebab nak cool? nak bajet, bak kata pemuda-pemudi era ini? To them, if you speak in English, it makes you a better person? Kau cakap bahasa Melayu tak cool. Hah, ni apa masalah? Malu sangat ke hang nak cakap bahasa nasional anda sendiri? Lebih-lebih, mereka yang berbangsa Melayu. Kalau hang memang tak tahu langsung nak bercakap menggunakan bahasa Melayu, boleh fahamlah ( kau orang Melayu, baik belajar sikit). Ni tahu, faham, fasih berkomunikasi dalam Bahasa Melayu, but tak mau sebab tak cool. Is that the new lifestyle? Being cool in whatever you do? Kau cool, kau maju, advanced. Banyak lah korang.

I'm not trying to be the next A. Samad Said here. I'm just confused why some people think Bahasa Melayu is something that is embarrassing. Hmm. Fikir-fikirkanlah.