Well been around KL a number of times now, can't remember how many times I have boarded the KTM train from Batang Benar station in Mantin (Pajam), Negeri Sembilan to KL Sentral.
There is a difference in what is socially acceptable in Mantin (a small town, more aptly described as Mantin Village whose main development is the uni campus, then add to that a cement factory of sorts, and a main street along a motorway to a city) and Kuala Lumpur. Mantin is more conservative in terms of what is accepted. Women wear their Saris (i.e locals) or younger girls perhaps wear the faded out jean and a T-Shirt and sneakers and some add to that the veil that covers their hair - generally well covered up. Then go to KL, (my views being a well raised man from a moderately conservative middle class Zimbabwean family), you find young girls wearing tiny tiny shorts that you can almost see something you might not like, holding smartphones bigger than their heads staring at them, whilst glossing their lips, pacing off to somewhere unlikely to be that important. Or some of them possibly escorts smoking at a restaurant close to an upmarket mall looking too young to be allowed entrance to such places at that time of the night. Its the challenge of modernity vs. maintaining a society of good values and morals. I guess you cannot spare even a country like Malaysia.
There is a difference in what is socially acceptable in Mantin (a small town, more aptly described as Mantin Village whose main development is the uni campus, then add to that a cement factory of sorts, and a main street along a motorway to a city) and Kuala Lumpur. Mantin is more conservative in terms of what is accepted. Women wear their Saris (i.e locals) or younger girls perhaps wear the faded out jean and a T-Shirt and sneakers and some add to that the veil that covers their hair - generally well covered up. Then go to KL, (my views being a well raised man from a moderately conservative middle class Zimbabwean family), you find young girls wearing tiny tiny shorts that you can almost see something you might not like, holding smartphones bigger than their heads staring at them, whilst glossing their lips, pacing off to somewhere unlikely to be that important. Or some of them possibly escorts smoking at a restaurant close to an upmarket mall looking too young to be allowed entrance to such places at that time of the night. Its the challenge of modernity vs. maintaining a society of good values and morals. I guess you cannot spare even a country like Malaysia.
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