Part of Malaysia? State of Malaysia?

We are part of Malaysia or state of Malaysia?

I always think of this issue after reading the history of Malaysia. Not the history textbook from Malaysia government but other sources.

Have we been brainwashed or this is the reality that we are state of Malaysia? The concept of Malaysia according to the source I found, was that Federation of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore join together to establish a new nation called Malaysia. Almost the same as UK's concept where England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland come together and establish the United Kingdom.

Since Singapore was kicked out from Malaysia in 1965, the rules of game changed. The status of country was downgraded to state. The resources in our land were exploited especially the petroleum. Sabah, Sarawak and Kelantan as well as Terengganu (Peninsular Malaysia states) need to produce 95% of the petroleum royalty to the Federal government of Malaysia. Initially, we were not to give our natural resources to the federal government but why after 1965, why after the rules of game changed, then we only retain 5% of the petroleum revenue?

More and more negative comments from the social networking website stated that Sabahans/Sarawakians are stupid, staying on trees, places are awful etc. I totally disagree and angry with those statements. As we, Sabahans never say anything bad about other people and their places but why we are being bullied by them?!!! I mean, we are Malaysian right? Why our own people still want to criticize own people like that?

However, I just assume that this is just the minority people's mindset. A country's prosperity depends on people's mindset. If the mindset is healthy, the country can prosper and if the mindset is dirty, corrupted, the country will never prosper!