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Book Review - Inequality in Malaysia (The Color of Inequality & Rich Malaysia, Poor Malaysians)

== Book Review == 1.  The Color of Inequality by Muhammed Abdul Khalid 2.  Rich Malaysia, Poor Malaysians by Anas Alam Faizli @anasalamfaizli   This is a long pending review which has been due for over a month. I ’m afraid I wouldn’t do justice. Both are just too good, hope my review helps. Read these books back to back because both are about the same issue, i,e; INEQUALITY, not anywhere else, but here in our beloved Malaysia. It took me quite some time to finish and digest. It’s a serious issue, but it’s so interesting that made me read some parts twice! Book 1 is like a thesis, provides statistic data from colonial times to millennium times, as we can see the shift of our economic base and help understand how gap occurred between races and how the gap of inequality did not did not change much for that 20 years. The data is shocking but it is not surprising when we see the reality around us. Inequality happened in every category either race/ethnic,socioeconomic a