Question of whether Malaysia has the ability to gain a developed status has been lingering for quite sometime. Are we, as a nation, or more importantly, as a society, ready to mobilise ourselves into the next level of country's status.
I've always admired Japan, the inventiveness, creativity, artistic nature of it society, and most of all, politeness. I would call that a developed society. As opposed to HK, it is materially developed, but culturally, not as developed as Japan.
"Developed" is somewhat a subjective term when we are talking about a society. Malaysia as a whole, we do have the required infrastructure, only to be matched by the inability, or incompetency of the people to utilise them.
You wont see a badly vandalised public phone in the UK, but in Malaysia, it is a norm. UK is a knowledge society, where people crave new ideas frequently.That explains the reason they're having some of the most inventive and prestiguous academic institution.
Then come to the point where we are arguing the function of our academic institutions. Are they no different from factories that produced large amount of graduates, just for the sake of employment?
