Imitation is the highest form of flattery

In Malaysia we seem to have an imitation crisis. When the United States come up with the Silicon Valley that gave birth to great companies such as google, ebay etc, we came up also with our own version of the silicon valley at Cyberjaya. It supposed to create ICT companies that can compete in global scale and also captures outsourcing job such as what has happened in India. But, Cyberjaya now seems to be housing many global call centres. So much for the outsourcing job. We also try to imitate the success of Indian companies who has been very successful in attracting outsourcing job from the rest of the world. 

When Paklah announced that we should be 100% self sustained in terms of food production, dozens of visits have been organised by government agencies to Holland; who has a successful food valley. (Not forgetting the Member's of Parliament's visit to Taiwan :))  Now with the wind of change that we can see in America whereby they could be having their first black American for president, would this form of leadership from the minority population of the country would be imitated here in Malaysia? hmmm.. only time would tell.