Many years ago when I was a kid, I always heard about someone else sons studied in Taiwan and their parents sent a monthly allowance of RM300 and they lived there comfortably like kings. Very often they would marry and bring back Taiwanese wives. Malaysia was a place where many people aspires to "migrate" or find a reason to come here to stay. It is never easy to migrate to Malaysia because of our government policy; I would say it is easier to get a green card in USA then to get a staying visa for foreign spouse to live and work in Malaysia. Nowadays we rarely hear about Taiwanese women willing to marry Malaysian men! Partly because Taiwan has emerged as a more affluent nation than us!
Not so many years ago, Malaysians felt extremely proud of being Malaysians during the time when we had an economic boom in late 80's and early 90's. I still remember the glorious day where a lot of Malaysians displayed our "Jalur Gemilang", our national flag on their vehicles on parade during our national day celebration. Those were the days where we attracted a lot of FDI and economy was simply vibrant, with progress and GDP growth well above other developing nations!
We did not progress thereafter and a lot of issues cropped up especially on our economic policies. Policy and decision making were such that, as though Malaysians of different ethnic origins are competing amongst each other for their own rice bowls, that was the biggest misconception and mistake we ever made! In actual fact we all Malaysians regardless of races, are in the same boat, supposedly to unite together and compete with other countries in Asean, India, and China etc to become a better nation! Our policy makers never realized this, politicians dragged their feet just to stay popular to be in power, all at the expense of our progress and welfare of the country and 'Rakyat" as a whole. Brain drain and migration of Malaysians are never taken seriously until it is just too late to reverse the trend!
We are now very much lag behind other countries in the same region in terms of economy and development. It was a trend then that Malaysian males were going abroad especially to neighboring countries to have fun. It would come a time when this land will run out of oil, and it would not be a surprise to us that foreigners from neighboring countries will start swarming here as a popular destination in the region for "recreation".
Malaysians please wake up to reality and if we are not determined to restructure and revamp ourselves for a radical change in all our economic policies to face the future challenge, we could end up to become a country without jobs but thriving with flesh trade of our own women as an attraction to foreign tourists, let alone to achieve our vision 2020. What a mockery, butt of the joke for other nations to look at who we Malaysians are!
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