Are we one?

In the last couple of weeks, working on one assignment, I had been doing some research and a lot of thinking on national unity...on whether Malaysia has achieved national unity.

Yesterday at a petrol station...my mind still preoccupied with this assignment, a petrol kiosk attendent greeted me in the national language, asked me whether I wanted to have the window washed, and whether I had had my lunch. I enquired ...he is from Bangladesh and had been here for 2 years. I was impressed with his immaculate command of our national language, to say the least. Then... on my short walk to the payment counter, an ethnic Chinese Malaysian approached me to sign up for his bank facility...he also spoke in the national language...but...alas...like he had just arrived off the Tongkang from Kwangtung...sorry...it is a fact...mmm... maybe I got an answer to my assignment...just need to find the reasons...and to put down in words...