It's not that we are not being grateful, but the thing is, WE COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER. That's the thing. If we don't have all these corrupted politicians and cronism things going on, we'll be a much much better country than we are today. Look at Singapore and Brunei. How small they are compared to us. We have so many natural resources compared to them, what happens to us? Our currency exchange is lower than them! Our corruption way-of-life, went up the scale as one of the Top most corrupted countries in the world. Isn't that a shame? An embarrassment?
Those Nepalis, Bangladeshis, Indians, Indonesians, Myanmars and whatnot, they are poorer than us. That's why when they are here in our country, and they earn much much more than what they could back in their own countries, they feel SO GRATEFUL, because they never had what we had. It's the same if we Malaysians go to the UK for example. We would be awed and we would probably ask the same thing to the Brits, if we ever hear them whine (and don't think they don't!).
Personally, I am grateful in so many ways, being a Malaysian. This feeling of gratefulness really dawns on you if you've ever been abroad. But truly, we, as a nation, could do much better. We could be as developed as South Korea, or even Japan, for that matter. We have all the resources that we need. The only thing we lack of, is GOOD ATTITUDE.
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