Bakri Musa's credits, apart from scientific articles in professional journals, have appeared in the New Straits Times, Far Eastern Economic Review, Businessweek, and National Public Radio's Marketplace. A surgeon in private practice, Bakri received his undergraduate, medical, and graduate degrees from the University of Alberta, Canada. He lives in Morgan Hill, California, with his wife Karen, a college instructor, and children Melindah, Zack, and Azlan.
Acknowledgement
ix
A Note on Style
xiii
Introduction and Overview
xv
Part One: Malaysia Then and Now
1
(110)
The Malay Dilemma-The Book
3
(12)
One Malay Village
15
(16)
It's Not All In Our Genes
31
(20)
Ugliness of Urbanization
51
(16)
Islamization of Malaysia
67
(16)
The Sultan Syndrome
83
(14)
MARA-The Great March Backward
97
(14)
Part Two: Modernizing Malaysia
111
(116)
Enhancing Bumiputra Competitiveness
113
(14)
Competitiveness Through Education
127
(22)
Seventy Million Malaysians
149
(14)
The Subsidy Mentality
163
(14)
We Are Special
177
(14)
Affirmative Action in America
191
(20)
The Non-Malay Dilemma
211
(16)
Part Three: Malaysia in the New Millennium
227
(102)
That Pesky Neighbor
229
(18)
The ``C'' of Corruption
247
(16)
Vision 2020-Not Quite Perfect
263
(14)
Look West Is Best
277
(12)
Twin Towers, Twin Crises
289
(28)
Which Way Forward?
317
(12)
List of Acronyms
329
(2)
Malaysian Phrases
331
(4)
References
335
(16)
Index
351
(18)
About the Author
369
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