gwailo mania

The Kelantanese Government is very upset that Malaysian women are not doing enough to entice foreigners to set up home here. They are impressed with how easily the Thais do it. Many foreigners flock to Thailand to find a wife and we must learn from these Thai women on how they do it!

When I speak of foreigner, I dont mean the Pakistani's or Indonesians or even the Koreans, I mean the white foreigners. White ones only.

This is the logic. No foreigner = No money.

This obsession with foreigners really get to me. Our third world country thinking has not progressed since we achieved Independence. We still worship the foreigners. We kiss the ground the walk on. We pay them in USD for work we can easily obtain from locals because "gwailo better mah!" We pay them ridiculous amounts of money to give a "gwailo" flavour to our companies and universities and homegrown brands.

We proudly declare Padini as our own homegrown brand. ALL MALAYSIAN!
So the question is, where are the Malaysians in the advertisements?




The latest advertisement by Open University Malaysia- a foreigner named Ian chose to do his PHD at OUM! Speaks volumes of the standard of the university! A FOREIGNER!GWAILO! OUM must be THE place to go to now. Who can forget LICT? Its a great university because foreigners from around the world chose that University.
Let us forget about statistics and academic excellence. A foreigner went there. MUST be a great place to further our studies!

While the West celebrate the "Oriental" look, we here in Malaysia worship the look of the West.
Our very own Ling Tan is a supermodel in New York cashing in on her oriental look, but over here in Malaysia, she looks too Chinese. Or too ethnic.

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We only like the ones who look "mixed". Too Indian, or Chinese or Malay? You're out.

So, what is so good about the westerners? Are they smarter? Are they better looking? In the case of Kelantan, are they richer?

Why do we give out mix signals? We are always proud to be a Malaysian brand but we find the necessity to sell the brand through a foreign face (or faces). All our big companies in Malaysia are headed by a team of foreigners. Because apparently, us locals are just too stupid to head a team to great heights.

I think we have to amend our favourite slogan from MALAYSIA BOLEH!

to MALAYSIA BOLEH ( sekiranya ada orang putih!)