HOW HAVE MALAYSIANS BEEN PERCEIVED BY THE FOREGINERS? SOME WILL BE TELLING TO IGNORE THEIR OPINIONS, BUT AREN'T THESE OPENIONS ARE THE ONES THAT IMPROVES US?
It has been long since I actually came back to Subang. 5 minutes ago, I was still at the hyper market with my dad, shopping for groceries. When we were about to do our payment, the cashier ran out of change, therefore would have to get some change from some other counters, and indeed he took his own sweet time just to get the change. Then came a westerner telling me, “Malaysians are so low in productivity, they need to speed up...” The only thing I replied was “I see I see...” how could I not agree more than him that the productivity is still low.
Low productivity has been perceived by foreigners towards Malaysians, even at a middle-high end sub urban area like Subang. How bad could this be? Is this caused by the lack of education? Or is it the lack of employee welfare? Or maybe it is caused by some other reasons?
Malaysians always talk about “Malaysia Boleh.” If this were the case, why are there still complains that Malaysian cannot do better than others? Or is it caused by the “we are Asians mentality” that has make us to compare ourselves only within Asia itself, telling others that we do actually have the productivity among Asia countries. But I think this has to be improved way further if we were to meet the vision of 2020.
But as time goes by, with higher education level perceived by teenagers, who would be the leaders of tomorrow, definitely things would get better. But, increasing the productivity pace up to the global standard is always the target, rather than saying on how good we are in certain areas that doesn't matter at all.
Lastly, questions from me to the guy I met. If he were to perceive Malaysia as a low productivity country and if he were complaining so much about the country, why did he come here at the first place? But no matter what feedback it would be, you're always welcome to Malaysia as your feedback is our utmost important element for us to improve ourselves, striving to be a better Malaysian, a better country.
If the cashier is XXX, i guess is their culture. They always do things slowly.
ReplyDeleteok la... there is no racial issue here la.. but the problem is that it really happens in Malaysia leh... they let westerners do more work than Malaysians because of their productivity... Malaysia people always take it the easy way, that is why people always think that they have a first class facility with a third class mentality, which is damn hard to be changed among Malaysians...
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