Because people in similar race or religion or area of living or language will tend to congregate in the same community
whether it is a fish market or a church mass or a wedding or any social event that that have attended.
A Dusun guy won't be bother to attend or be invited to a Iban social event.
Same goes to Chinese that wouldn't have the chance Malay Ramadan Tarawikh
Unless they are co-workers or same place of education.
A Malay will help a Malay especially when their social status is higher or sometimes lower than others.
Other Bumi ethnicities shares the same mindset of helping the less fortunate in your community.
Perhaps Chinese have different look into this but I doubt that.
I've attended around 30-40 Chinese weddings, countless CNY visits and BBQs and one of my ex is Chinese.
Perhaps this is why Chinese does not think the way Malays or others think. (I'm not saying one is right or wrong, just different way)
I cannot speak in regards of Indians because I rarely encountered them in my life to be able to make judgement
So an Iban will hire their own kind as a priority for employment. I believe Chinese too.
A Malay will hire Malay contractors for a Malay wedding because they share the same diet, religion, language
or in a shorter form, it is easier to get the job done.
A Chinese will hire their own kind because hiring a Malay would be troublesome in term of diet and custom.
Malay will have Malay patrons in their restaurant and vice versa. An Iban will buys from an Iban and such.
You get my point right?
So the distribution of wealth trickles down from the rich to poor in one closed society in an area.
The poor hardly distributes the wealth amongst themselves because they are not able to.
T20 is important to create employment, create business opportunity and develops the area of their etc.
For example (I have personally met them and been to their home),
Tan Sri Alfred Jabu was the Iban leader and T20 in Betong. He still lives in the original longhouse he grew up.
His longhouse now creates 22 degree holders, 3 Master etc whereas 20 years ago, they were merely farmers and laborer's
Now Betong have community centers, Trans Borneo highway, Rural UTC, hotels, KFC, Watson and such because of what he brings
Tan Sri Mustapha Kamal, a T20 was just government servant serving as a DO in Banting. But then with NEP in the 70s he tried his luck as a land developer.
Now he employs his family members, the friends of his family members and such. He helped developed Cyber Jaya and parts of KL.
But little do we know that he funded a lot of mosque to be build secretly with his money.
I saw him giving cash money to my friend's father when my friend passed away in Pantai Medical Center to pay for his bills.
I saw him paying zakat in a Australia to a local imam because he had some business there.
In short, he distributes his wealth either as donations, business opportunity or employment to his people.
So are this 2 people corrupt as most people here say T20 is corrupt?
*I met Najib in his office (for work) discussing about his project on the Klinik Bergerak 1Malaysia in rural Sarawak. I know it us unrelated but heck, just for kick