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When I was a child growing up in a predominantly Chinese city in Malaysia, it seemed as though we were always trying to catch up with the West, represented first by Great Britain and later by the United States. Although Malaya gained independence from the British in 1957 (and became Malaysia in 1962), British-type education and the mass media constructed our worlds as failed replicas of the modern West. This colonial effect of trying to learn from and imitate the global centre has been a preoccupation of post-colonial elites seeking to articulate a destiny that is a mixed set of western and Asian interests. Now a resident in the United States, my annual visits to Southeast Asia intensify my awareness that an alternative vision of the future is being articulated, an increasingly autonomous definition of modernity that is differentiated from that in the West.
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