Choose one of the three guests featured on the talk show 101 East. Then apply discourse analysis. State whether you agree or disagree towards the proposition, premises and arguments that you have identified.

             New Economic Policy (NEP) has been applied to Malaysian for over than three decades and it becomes a big issue day by day by all races. In Al Jazeera 101 East : Malaysian Affirmative Action the guest that I choose is Chow Kon Yeow who is a senior Democratic Action Party (DAP) member than the other guest as he is the one who against the NEP policies.

Discourse Analysis

Conclusion

Most Malaysians are unhappy about the approaches of NEP and the power of UMNOputras.

Proposition

NEP is not a bad policy as the implementation is the one that is unsuitable to Malaysian.

Premise 1

NEP has many abuses and corruption is one of it in terms of giving the speciality.

 Argument

NEP mostly is given to politically connected people rather than the other Malays and Bumiputras.

Premise 2

Keadilan will set Malaysian Economic Agenda (MEA) to replace NEP.

Argument

Make new policies by comparing to NEP performance in the past two or three decades.

             In his statements, his proposition that I have identified is he said that NEP is not a bad policies but the way how it has been implemented to Malaysians is the wrong one. In my opinion, I disagree with his statement because NEP has been implemented for three decades to Malaysians and if it is because of the implementation, then Malaysians would protest it in the past ten years.

             Furthermore, he has come out with three premises and the first is the implementation is wrong because the corruption that has occurred in NEP. I disagree with his premise because corruption is a minor problem that cannot be avoided in every institution and the government has strongly tried to decrease the problem. In addition, the problem is nothing to compare with the benefits that Malays and Bumiputras gain.

             In his argument he explained that the corruption than he meant is when most Malays and Bumiputras that benefited by NEP is the one who have politic influence than the other people. I disagree with his statement because there are many examples that we can see today that NEP also help people who have no politic influence or people who are from the opposition party. This is a propaganda makes by people who are fanatic to their opposition party to influence the voters and most of them are not Malays and Bumiputras.

             Besides, the second premise is he told that there is another alternative by the opposition which is Malaysian Economic Agenda (MEA) that is going to replace NEP. I agree with this statement because it shows that they have an effort in order to make a better change to the community however his argument has given another perspective about the new policy.

             He said that the policy is different to NEP because they will structure MEA by referring and comparing to NEP performance and I disagree with his argument. It is because his statement cannot convince the community that MEA is going to be different and a better policy as there is no strong example given. It is also looks like the policy is not serious and just another politics plan to attract the voters.

             As conclusion, I mostly disagree with Chow Kon Yeow’s statements because some of the statement is based on his own view and hearsay because there is no fact given. Moreover, his premise does not related to his proposition because if he really thinks that NEP is not a bad policy but only the implementation, then Keadilan should change the implementation not replace the policy.