Anyone who knows Malaysia or who has visited since the tragic events surrounding flight MH370 will have been struck by the coming together of all in a society that is often, erroneously, portrayed by outsiders as divided along racial and religious lines. Weekend newspapers carried articles about the unfairness of the global media coverage. While some of this was the typical patriotism one sees in any country when tragedy strikes, mostly it showed people from across the board supporting the government despite some embarrassment about its initial mismanagement and incompetence in handling the crisis.
任何一個知道馬來西亞、或在MH370航班引發的悲劇性事件后去過馬來西亞的人，都會深有感觸地發現，這個常被外界錯誤地描述為因內部存在不同種族和宗教而四分五裂的社會，其實是多么的團結。上周末的一些報刊文章談到了全球媒體報道的不公正。雖然這里面有典型的愛國主義成分（你在任何遭遇不幸的國家都能看到這一點），但它們主要凸顯出了馬來西亞全體人民對政府的一致支持——盡管在處置這場危機的過程中，馬來西亞政府最初表現出的管理不當和無能有些令人尷尬。