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a manifestation of prickly inferiority and childish, nouveau
riche one-upmanship. It's no accident that all the records we are so
proud
of
don't require much intellectual input."
Subject:
[Sutera] Record books run amok as Malaysians prove a point
Date:
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:03:19 +0800
From:
"Aneka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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ISSUE 1783 Wednesday 12 April 2000
Record books run amok as Malaysians prove a point
By Alex Spillius in Bangkok
MALAYSIANS have been breaking all sorts of records. The more bizarre are
in
the
latest edition of the Malaysia Book of Records.
They include the largest replica camel collection, the largest
collection
of
annual reports and the first Malaysian to go dog-sledding in Finland.
The
book
and an accompanying television series featuring records are part of a
record-
breaking mania fostered by the Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, who is
Asia's
longest serving leader, in the interests of nation-building.
While overseeing the construction of the world's tallest structure, the
88-
floor Petronas Towers, and several other mega-projects in his tropical
state
of
modest size he developed a favourite phrase - Malaysia Boleh! or
Malaysia
Can!
This spirit is supposedly embodied in the 1,700-entry, coffee-table
hardback,
which has a foreword written by Dr Mahathir.
"We are trying to instil a spirit of excellence among the people," said
Danny
Ooi, managing editor, a former beauty pageant organiser, who has
discovered
a
record 44 Miss Malaysias of various types. Quite how the most number of
heads
shampooed in one day at a shopping mall, 1,068, or the most frequent
best
man,
1,069 weddings, serves this end has baffled critics.
Amir Muhammad, a newspaper columnist, described the country's
record-breaking
obsession as "a manifestation of prickly inferiority and childish,
nouveau
riche one-upmanship. It's no accident that all the records we are so
proud
of
don't require much intellectual input."
The growing pressure to set precedents led to national shame in February
when a
team of Malaysian skydivers, who claimed to be the first Asians to
parachute
to
the South Pole, begrudgingly admitted a few weeks after returning home
that
they had fibbed. They had in fact landed 1,000 miles away in western
Antarctica.
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