An open letter to Michelle Yeoh

There are aspects which deserve attention, at a time of ever-increasing ethnocentrism and religious bigotry in Malaysia.

Malaysia is naturally, and rightly, ecstatic at the fact that compatriot and daughter, Ipoh-born Michelle Yeoh, received the Best Actress award at this year’s Oscars in Hollywood, becoming the first Asian to do so. There is special pride in Hong Kong too where she began her movie career despite rusty Cantonese.

There is pride around the Chinese world an…