Are we ready to become an "advanced nation"?

By Kee Thuan Chye

January 2014 TALK-TALK ONLY
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With a culture that doesn’t strive for excellence, we cannot help but develop in a mediocre way, or worse. Whether we make First World status or not, our mindset will most probably remain Third World.As we begin the new year and realise that we are only six years away from the magical 2020 when – as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has promised – we will become an advanced nation, it might be apt to speculate whether we...

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Kee Thuan Chye

is the author of the new bestsellers Unbelievably Stupid! and Unbelievably Stupid Too!

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