@badkitteyh: Median wage of Malaysian workers Malaysian Chinese: RM3,324 Malaysian Indian: RM2,775 Malaysian Malay Bumiputera: RM2,688 Source: “Salaries & Wages Survey Report Malaysia 2025” https://storage.dosm.gov.my/labour/salaries_wages_2025.pdf A Chinese applicant was more than 5 times as likely to get a call-back than a Malay applicant with identical credentials. Overall, roughly 22.1% of Chinese applicant résumés received interview invitations, compared to only 4.2% of Malay applicant résumés. Source: “Discrimination of high degrees: race and graduate hiring in Malaysia,” Hwok-Aun Lee and Muhammed Abdul Khalid (Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2016, vol. 21, issue 1, 53-76) *** Possible explanations in video are some of the deductions taken from the study *** Before anyone comes at me, remember that this data, even though it lists several studies and several factors, only still represents a facet of how complex our labour market is. It should not be fuel or fodder for racist tropes, but it should spark more questions and debates about the kinds of policies that we have or should have. Questions such as, shouldn't the income gap be inverted already given we've had the new economic policy and quotas in government and universities for decades? Or questions such as, why does the private sector feel the need to favour one applicant's race over another, and whether there should be policies enacted to stop that? #CapCut

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