It is understandable for you to adopt such a stance - notwithstanding the racial nuances attached to "babi". You are seeing it from a Singaporean perspective. The Singapore government has done a very good job to take the race equation out of such a situation if it happens in Singapore. It is very sensitive to social problem or issue that hints of a racial skewing - be they drug addictions or under-performances in education.
In Malaysia, they make sure that
race is a dominant factor - and that one race will be treated very differently from the other races. The Malay slogan for this is
"Ketuanan Melayu" which means "Malay supremacy" or "Malay dominance".
Just take a look at a current article taken from The Star:
Permodalan Nasional Berhad and Khazanah Nasional (equivalent of Temasek & GLCs) will sell or outsource 10 non-core businesses to suitable bumiputra companies to increase Bumiputra equity. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the bumiputra companies would be selected from among the 80 high-performing companies through an open tender process.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/2/9/nation/20120209181403&sec=nation.
(9 February 2012)
You cannot but understand why their opposition parties will label this as yet another "cronyism" project because these "80 bumiputra companies" are invariably owned by UMNO members or their families who will have previously benefitted from another bumiputra-based handout.
Where is 1Malaysia? Mana? The 1Malaysia is obviously an election gimmick by Barisan National to win votes from the non-Malays (it lost lots of non-Malays votes to the opposition in the last election - who even abandon the non-Malay components in BN).
Race does play a part here. And it runs deep-rooted. That's the reality.