LETTER | As the curtains lifted and imagination of 2020 demystified, the struggle continues.
| I was four when Vision 2020 was introduced in 1991. Growing up, I remembered a lot of drawing competitions and later on, manyThe year 2020 sounded so futuristic and long way ahead in my tiny brain .As I grew older I came to realise that not all things were going to be rosy. Significant events happened as I skated through my blissful childhood, in some ways merely glimpsing what was going on.
Be that as it may, I ended up nevertheless having many non-Chinese friends, and looking back, the university was one of the most defining experiences in making me Malaysian. Even if we were cynical about it, and were told to look to other countries for greater opportunities, we often referenced 2020 as a point when these ideals would have come true. Granted that some of these hopes were not realistic, Malaysia has certainly come a long way in the last 30 years and even so-called developed nations are not without problems.
Meanwhile, world events around us evolved. China has risen to challenge the United States as the unilateral superpower and sole economic powerhouse. The impact of sectarianism in the Middle East and the US’ “War on Terror” still reverberates in this part of the world. ICQ, MSN Messengers and Friendster came and went before the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram arrived and changed the social media scene forever.
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