Our education is too Western-centric, aping Western universities and showing ignorance of Asian and African contributions to knowledge. AS we celebrate 55 years of political independence, we may note the blessings of peace and prosperity in our beloved land. But we also need to reflect on some unfulfilled dimensions of independence. If independence is autonomy or freedom from the control of another nation, then we Malaysians are hardly free. The basic assumptions of our political, economic and educational systems are dictated by Western, especially Anglo-American, hegemony. Politically we are free but enslavement of the mind has hardly ceased. A slave mentality or Western/Euro-centrism need...
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