Myopic leaders in the country have played the race card in forwarding their own personal careers at the detriment to the nation and its people.
While on the global scale, China and India are moving forward to become the next economic superpowers of the world surpassing the United States and Japan, in Malaysia we chose instead to talk about how much the Malays have not achieved in national economic terms against the rest of the other races.
The correct debate should be how much we Malaysians have not achieved in international economic terms against emerging economies like Singapore or Korea.
It is with incredulous short sightedness that some of us choose to whine about how unfair the division of the pie is in our small pie shop when our big neighborhood bakeries had snapped up all of the raw materials and, most important of all, customers away from us.
If MAS or Proton could benefit from the expertise of a CEO, regardless of race, color or creed, then so be it. This outcry over a rumor that a foreigner is being considered to head GLCs is ridiculous and down right dangerous. If we base our hiring decisions on race rather than on qualifications then our country is doomed and we will no chance to survive in this new century.
When our GDP falls and we live on hand outs from countries like Singapore or China or India, that will be when the real colonialization happens. By that time, it will be too late.