Where is Malaysia heading to these days?

With the independence day around the corner, I'm just thinking that Malaysia has come a long way and did tons to gain it's independence. To this day, Malaysia has not only recovered it's freedom, it's beauty and salvaged the remains of the cruel raping of the ex-rulers, but also had lots of plusses in having insurmountable great things to offer --> a plethora of good food (we're talking about international too... such a food paradise!), the warmth of it's people, the 'do not care less attitude' (a.k.a. 'tidak apa' attitude), our love and affinity for peace, and wonderful, wonderful nature!

However, sandwiched between, or found in the pores of such wonderful things, and in all things that is of unique Malaysia, or 'Malaysianess', you will find unbelievable and shocking behaviours that are unbefitting of all those mentioned pleasant-ville qualities of Malaysia.

Eventhough a lot of folks these days are more civic-minded and more educated, there are still a large group out there who are eye-sores to the public eye. Did I mentioned "educated" earlier? I must be kidding, hah! Well, truth of the matter is that, forget about them having their education or are 'well-travelled' for instance, as most still end up being extremely 'kiasu' (a Hokkien term for those 'who are afraid to lose out to others'). Where is Malaysia heading to if the community is filled with such trash?

Kiasu behaviours can be seen on roads (we're probably ranking top #3 'worse driving skills' chart of having the worst and craziest drivers on earth). Likewise, the said behaviour can also be witnessed whenever there are mega sales, and free things distributed etc. Amongst these, you will too, find litter bugs, abusers of nature, abusers of public properties / conveniences i.e. public phones and toilets etc.

You will too, find that a 'good few' who would not appreciate queueing systems while getting on any public transport, public toilets, getting into lifts, pay counter etc. To top it all (worse of the worst) is where there's 'free food' (i.e. open houses, or anywhere else)... you will see a greater transformation of 'nice' Malaysians into 'ugly' Malaysians who are so lack of civic-mindedness (not to mention, manners!). Such sad social illnesses are mushrooming faster than our high-rise buildings!

It makes our harmonious multicultural society a joke. We are so proud in so many ways to say that we are 'rich' with our culture and open-mindedness towards the world, and at the same time embrace age-old traditions and customs i.e. respecting the elders and the sick by giving up our seats for them (I'm talking about public transport), or let them have their food first, or get ahead of us while queueing etc. However, there are just 'some folks' who'd swim against these mentioned good parts of the said good nature and beautiful culture.

Back to the question earlier, "Where is Malaysia heading to these days?" It seems that we will never progress but regress if these social illnesses are not curbed. Already, as a colonised country, we have inherited tons of bad habits from the colonial days to disintegrate the society (the divide and rule tactic), but why continue to 'do ourselves in' by topping up with "kiasuness"? Shouldn't we be heading towards a better nation, with better manners and civilisation by proving to the ex-rulers that we are behaving better after independence?