17 April, 2020

Quora Answer: Is Malaysia Far from a Developed Country?

The following is my answer to a Quora question: “Is Malaysia far from being a developed country?

Malaysia is one of those countries that should have attained near developed status long ago due to the inherent advantages the British left it upon independence and its wealth of natural resources, but it never will.  As long as the country elevates one race, the Malays, over others in an apartheid system they call Ketuanan Melayu, it will always be in danger of regressing to a failed state status due to underlying racial and religious tensions.

Malaysia is an example of how a vestige of Pan-Islamism has robbed its citizens of their future.  The fruits of Ketuanan Melayu is a pseudo-feudal political patronage system, race-based politics, entrenched corruption and a brain drain that will continue to rob the nation of its best and brightest.



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