Are we becoming a "Thanksinized country", grooming the filthy rich to become CEOs of this class-stratified society? How do we reconceptualize the study of the New Economic Policy? Dare we use a radical sociological approach, to replace those mundane and outdated race-based empirical study designs?

As I have argued in an online salon, science is a culture and an ideology and the method we choose will determine the answer we will discover.

If the numbers crunched and concluded by the Asian Strategic Leadership Institute's study is valid and reliable as the latest indicator of economic achievement, the proposition that 5 percent of Malaysians own more that 85 percent of the nations wealth is showing us the "Thaksinization" (deposed Prime Minister of Thailand) of our economy ala Americanism. In Corporate America, less than 5 percent of the population owns more that 90 percent of the wealth of the country.