I've been searching for the right term to describe the phenomenon I see across the developing world but haven't found it yet...
We point to the skyscrapers and luxury malls of the various capital cities as proof of progress in Africa, forgetting that these places are where banks, government institutions, foreign capital, international aid agencies, NGOs, and the wealthiest citizens, are concentrated all in just one small area.
The real test is what happens when you leave that small bubble.
In Japan or much of Western Europe, for example, development and modernity doesn't vanish 10 kilometers out of the capital city. The roads, water, schools, and hospitals continue almost across the country. In much of Africa, on the other hand, the infrastructure drop off is DRASTIC. One minute you're in Acacia Mall and the next minute you're back in the stone age after just a 5 minute drive away from the city centre.
That's why gleaming snapshots such as this photo are so misleading.
A country isn't developed because modernity exists in some small pocket of affluence and wealth in ita capital city. Development is about how widely that modernity is distributed. Africa fails in that regard.
HOT TAKE: refusing to acknowledge someone’s growth is unfair. if someone has taken accountability & has shown their change over time, continuing to define them exclusively by their past is not even “holding them accountable” anymore, you just want to personally harm them.
Islam is pro trade, private property, against price setting, government intervention.
But it’s also, anti hoarding, you make money to spend it in a good cause.
This is somehow not preached as much as: music is Haram (not mentioned once in the Quran and barely any Hadith).
So memang adanya agenda dari luar utk memastikan kaum cina (maybe india juga) sentiasa tak bersatu dengan melayu dalam negara ini. Sekarang pula dgn isu ni ada pihak luar tak senang hati lihat cina lantang bersuara dgn melayu. Indirectly dia kata cina dah jadi penjilat melayu.
In my entire life I've only heard the phrase "boys will be boys" used when like a 7 year old breaks his leg trying to jump off a roof using an umbrella as a parachute
Wrong. The reason they cannot speak Bahasa is because they refuse to learn the language of a people they think are inferior to them. It’s really that simple.
(Exceptions do not negate the general rule).