1Malaysia

I think 1Malaysia spirit is truly practiced in Sabah or at least in Kota Kinabalu as I witnessed it. Here whereever you go, you will not fail to notice that people from all walk of life mingle around freely at any place and any time. You see people from different ethnic and religious background gathering in the coffee shop operated by the Chinese. You witness different ethnic groups communicating to each others with Sabahan Malaysia language. You patronise a shop that manage by people from all background. Basically, the line of separation amongst different ethnic group is very blur and cannot distinguish at all if you are not familiar with the mother tongue and slang of that person. While other parts of Malaysia is talking about managed programmes to create opportunities for greater interaction, the atmosphere has been incculcated in such long long time ago and did not changed "yet". Shall we learn from them, our brother state which might be physically not so develop compared to other states in Pennisular Malaysia? In this respect, I would said development and greater interaction might not co-related with each other, and at time conflicting each others. We have come to a state of sacrifying our harmony with the economy progress. We might have relook on the model of development we are envisioned now, I guess.