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When it comes to our diverse society, Malaysia is like a “salad bowl” - our strength does not come from making every ingredient identical, says National Unity Minister Datuk Aaron Ago Dagang.

“Our strength comes from bringing different ingredients together, allowing each to retain its uniqueness, while becoming something greater,” he said during an interview in conjunction with Malaysia Day (Sept 16).

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00:00This is unfortunate. I don't know why in the first place.
00:03We are in a silent war.
00:06We put ourselves together there.
00:08We meet ourselves.
00:09We mingle around ourselves.
00:10And then we identify ourselves as a pleasure.
00:13So that is the very essence of the way forward since I have been here.
00:20This is the thing we're looking,
00:23talk about the latest steps and so on.
00:27But looking at the many ethnicities that we have,
00:33I think we agree that in terms of language, the food,
00:36even the festival that we have, the music that we have,
00:39the clothing, even the culture, the friendship,
00:42how we behave.
00:44I think there's a little bit of some differences along the way.
00:49But as I said earlier, these differences are not hindered to us.
00:54It should be a uniting force towards us.
00:59You see, human beings, in a way,
01:04because of the intelligence that we have,
01:08we tend to be doing along with people,
01:11understanding each other.
01:12From there on, there is a kind of interaction.
01:16It's a social understanding among each other.
01:20That is the beauty of us.
01:22But if we look at it in a negative way,
01:26if we look at you are trying to be looking at yourself as you alone
01:29and more on your own group,
01:32that could be a hindered, that could be a problem.
01:34But I think that we're really talking about unity by understanding,
01:41by respecting and accepting each other.
01:46That is the basis of we as human beings should be able to look at ourselves.
01:54There are issues that, challenges that, not to say hinders,
02:02but a basis to us to work towards unity.
02:09We have done few studies.
02:11I think you have heard about index Prokoduan National.
02:15It's nice.
02:16I think it's the third time that we did it already for.
02:19It started from 2018, 2018, 2022, and 2025 last year.
02:29Of course, lucky that the index naik.
02:32But I think night because hopefully it tells us the real reality.
02:39Hopefully the reality is there.
02:41But every time we do study, of course, we try to make more samples
02:47to cover some of the elements or some issues that we left behind.
02:51So I think by doing that, that could be another reason why our index increases.
02:58So we have like that.
03:00But then again, the core issues that still challenge to us is, of course, perception.
03:10And then we see we have 10 deficit social, we call it.
03:15Problem with social issues.
03:17This is, of course, ethnicity, race, religion, and so on.
03:22But again, just for information.
03:25Between ethnicity, there's no issue.
03:28The big problem for Ibnaz is development and governance.
03:37Those are the big issues.
03:39It's not between you and me, no.
03:40It is people.
03:41Because when we formulate, when we structure,
03:45the answers, if we talk about development, we talk about tabiah urus.
03:54These are the things that our people give negative response.
04:00And they are the biggest influence that put down our index.
04:04You see?
04:05Tabiah urus is rasuah, delivery system, development is state like Sabah and Sarawak.
04:14We talk about air.
04:15Air pun tak ada.
04:16Jalan pun tak ada.
04:17Klinik tak ada.
04:18Sekolah ada.
04:19So that, they always give negative perception.
04:23You see?
04:24And then, kalau in the town area here, of course, congestion or apa aga.
04:29Actually, that's why when we talk about unity, it's not you could decide the other group.
04:38It's not that.
04:39We got the elements that put in everything that covers, that keep us together.
04:46Happiness.
04:47We have happiness in that.
04:48Yes.
04:48But we're not you could plug it.
04:53It's not that simple.
04:55It's not like the echoes.
04:58It's not like the echoes.
04:59It's not that even though it's not like the echoes.
05:01It's like, you know, there's a key.
05:03It's also like that.
05:03So that people don't really put them together.
05:04Well, I think we don't talk again.
05:04You
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