The 5th Merdeka Award Roundtables topic brought three panelists to discuss about the controversy of language among us.

One of the panelists, the co-founder and president of Pure Life Society Datin Paduka Mother A Mangalam said that most of her children that were coming from different ethnic could speak multilingual.

The social activists, Anas Zubedy added that we need to have one language as a pillar languange which is Bahasa Melayu as our identity as a Malaysian.

“Language is the uniquness that we have to accept, the children in the playground can play together without understanding each other language because they understand the rules of the game. ” said Anas.

Anas also said that English is also one of the important language that we should’ve mastered.

Watch this interesting debate hosted by Bettina Khan.