"Malaysia Travel (and The Foreign ..." a Malaysia Travel Page by l_joo

Total population in Malaysia is (census 2008 according to List of countries by population, Wikipedia) 27,496,000.
Total foreign workers in Malaysia is 3,500,000

3,500,000 devided by 27,496,000 is 12.73%

Only 2.1 million among foreign workers are registered, 1.4 millions are illegals.

and "Stateless Children" estimates about 1 million, they are the children of illegal immigrants.

see also: Illegal immigrants in Malaysia (Wikipedia)

"The government's estimate of 1.2 million illegal immigrants may be a conservative number, however. Some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have placed the number of illegal immigrants in the state of Sabah alone in the realm of two million, comprising two-thirds of the state's population. "

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12 peoples out of 100 in Malaysian are foreign workers, 12.73% in total population.

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More and more local peoples become jobless because the foreigners are willing to work at 150 Dollars a month.

Logic: Jobless peoples around, they commit crimes.

Warning!
Don't say I never warned you, ladies and gentlemen, especially ladies age over 50, please be careful with your handbag or slingbag whatever, do not carry your handbag while you are walking on the street in Malaysia. If you must carry important items, use waist pouch or put it in a backpack (carry your backpack in front of your body).

To be honest to you, Malaysia has a lot of snatch thieves, Wikipedia. They are criminals, they are jobless, they ride a low cost motorbike and they snatch your handbag for living. Last month, they snatched my mother's handbag but unsuccessful.

Malaysia has 4 million foreign workers and it is a big problem now! Economy is hugely effected. Malaysia constantly import large numbers of foreign workers from neighbor countries, they stay permanently for money, although not much of money, only USD150-250 per month. We read in the newspapers, quite many of them were treated real badly, like slaves, tortured by owner, etc, but sometimes they treated us badly in return and at last they got themselves arrested by police for criminality, such as stealing, snatch thieving, robbing, murdering, destroying & polluting our environment, throwing rubbish everywhere, and millions more.

Nowadays our beautiful homeland has becoming so dirty, rivers polluted, roadside garbage, etc, mostly contributed by them, foreign labors.

Some don’t understand Malaysian language, you speak to them they stare at you, smiling. Some of them offloaded waste garbage halfway before the landfill.

To say "all roadside garbage contributed by foreigners" is unfair, is not true too. We, Malaysian too contributed some.

Common Scientific knowledge in Malaysia
Some Malaysian have a habit of placing one or two dead rats in the middle of the street, the purpose is to let passing by vehicles roll onto it over and over (as shown in the photo) until the dead rat becomes a piece of flat meat. I asked someone why they did this, they told me it is the way of killing rats. If you want to see "Dead Flatten Rats On the Street", please come to visit me, I can show to you without charging the fee of tourguide. You might need a piece of cloth covering your mouth/nose as those flatten meats although are dead still capable of producing powerful smells.

Horrible that the common scientific knowledge has reached the level of medieval age, until even the peoples believing dead flatten rats is something "OK". We cannot blame the peoples, it was the education in the past that screwed up our science study. Today our scientific knowledge is so horrible that peoples are placing dead rats on the street for vehicles to roll over.

You, must come to visit Malaysia, to experience a totally different culture.

Today Malaysia is....
A slightly richer developing country, we are still experimenting and learning 'how to get rid of our third world mentalility', 'how to keep rivers and roads clean', 'how to live without corruptions', 'how to democracy', 'how to win the first ever Olympic Gold medal', 'how to eradicate poverty', etc.

Education
Some said the national language is the most important and patriotic, some said English is the language for economy and knowledge, fight, fight, fight...

We have 3, 4, 5, 6 types of schools in Malaysia, each have own 'important language' to protect and promote, I don't want to listen to your opinion, you don't want mine. However we respect all schools (extreme sensitive) and we all speak all languages in our daily conversation, I happy, you happy.

Speaking so many languages is ok, fine, but a weird problem occured. Majority of us, in fact, cannot speak properly especially English, our broken language is extremely common and widespread.

Our habits
Malaysian usually sit down and discuss 'eat & foods', first, we want to avoid sensitive topics, second, we find it easy and comfortable this way, third, our language weakness. It is too difficult for us to discuss topics that require language proficiency skills such as sciences, philosophy, aesthetic value, law, medical, literature, etc.

So, tourists, please discuss 'eat & foods' when you visit Malaysia. Topics that we constantly discuss are: eating, foods, English football, Mega sales, shopping, watching TV, gossip men women, how many kids you have, road accidents, etc....and I have some exciting tips of local customs