Why Malaysians overseas do not want to come back

Time and again the government, or some politician, will make a statement about trying to get overseas Malaysians to come back and contribute to the country’s economy and development. They talk about incentives and nationalism and all that crap. As if those are really great inducement for Malaysians overseas to come back.

Puh-lez. If I am overseas, I also don’t want to come back. Why? And if you mention 1Malaysia, I will kick you.

Here are the simple reasons why most overseas Malaysians, especially the non-Bumis, do not want to come back:

1. Many of them were sent overseas to study using their parents’ hard-earned money and bank loans, not using any ‘special benefits’ from the govt so why should they come back to ‘serve’ the country when they don’t owe the country anything?

2.  They get higher salary and were offered high positions based on merits and their abilities and if they build a big huge empire of companies, don’t have to worry about being forced to hand the profits over to other people just because of some racist policy, nepotism and cronyism.

3. The cost of living there is so much more reasonable than here. Average salary of an executive can be $4,000 to $5,000 and only pay $10,000 to $15,000 for a local car and about $80,000 for a house. Here, average salary of an executive can be RM2,000 to RM3,000 but pay RM50,000 for a local car and more than RM100,000 for a tiny flat.

4. Racism is everywhere but only in Malaysia, it is sanctioned and is a policy.

5.Higher education opportunities are only for those who can afford it or those in a certain group while the rest will have to hope they make it in or else, find ways to get bank loans to further their studies since public scholarships are also reserved for certain groups only. While overseas, higher education coupled with good scholarships are available for those who deserve it, not only for a certain group of people.

6. If they have foreign spouses, the spouses will NEVER be given citizenship because they are of the ‘wrong race’  and the spouse will have to be subjected to renewing their social visit pass every year while there are those who can easily get PR because they are of a certain group.

7. If they do well here based on their own abilities and hard work, they are accused of ‘robbing’ a certain group of their privileges but overseas, they can do well based on their own abilities and hard work and nobody will accuse them of anything.

8.  They know their tax money is going to the welfare of the people in various schemes and projects there but here, we all know the tax money only end up in some politicians’ pockets.

9. The grass is always greener on the other side, LITERALLY.

10. All the so-called incentives offered for them to come back are a nothing but short-term promises which will not materialise so they are not so stupid to fall for empty words.

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