Worse, somehow, they feel even more insulted when you call them “Malay”. If you try to call any one of our East Malaysian brothers an "Orang Asli", they WILL BEAT YOU UP! I had to repeat this because almost all West Malaysians make the same mistake when we cross the South China Sea. He also did not identify that the "Orang Asli" are (for lack of a better term) ex-Africans. The writer failed to identify (probably didn't know), that the "Malay" definition also includes, the Champa, Dong Song, HoabinHian, The Taiwanese Alisan and the Philippino Aetas. Somehow, the Indonesians disagree with this classification and insist on being called "Indonesians" even though the majority of "Malays" have their roots in parts of Indonesia? They refuse to be called "Malay"…. Linguists call this the "Lego-type" language, where words are added on to the root word to make meaning and give tenses and such. With what is meant by a similar type language does not mean that the words are similar.
The definition of “Malay” is therefore simply a collection of people's who speak a similar type language. The Malay nation, therefore, covers people of various ethnic stock, including Javanese, Bugis, Bawean, Achehnese, Thai, orang asli, the indigenous people of Sabah and Sarawak and descendants of Indian Muslims who had married local women.īeneath these variations, however, there is a common steely core that is bent on changing the Malay persona from its perceived lethargic character to one that is brave, bold and ready to take on the world. "The Malays – taken as an aggregation of people of different ethnic backgrounds but who speak the same language or family of languages and share common cultural and traditional ties – are essentially a new race, compared to the Chinese, Indians and the Arabs with their long histories of quests and conquests. In an article in the Star, dated: Dec 3rd 2006 you’ll be so glad that their Head-Hunting days are over. Try calling a Kelabit a "Malay" and see what response you get. What about the west coast Kedah inhabitants who prefer to be known as "Achenese"? or the Ibans who simply want to be known as IBANS. Neither do the "Malays" who live on the West Coast of Johor. Is there really a race called the "Malays"? All anthropologists DO NOT SEEM TO THINK SO. Of course, we also have the Minangkabau's which come from the descendants of Alexander the Great and a West Indian Princess. (see also "Early Kingdoms of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsular") To confuse the issue, there was also the Southern Thai migration, from what we know as Pattani today. There are also traces of the Dong Song and HoaBinh migration from Vietnam and Cambodia. Interestingly, the Champa deviant group moved back to present day Kelantan. A sub-group from Borneo also moved to Champa in Vietnam at 4,500yrs ago. The final migration was to the Malayan Peninsular 3,000yrs ago. They also split into Sulawesi and progressed into Jawa, and Sumatera. If we follow the original migration of the Southern Chinese of 6,000yrs ago, they moved into Taiwan, (now the Alisan), then into the Phillipines (now the Aeta) and moved into Borneo (4,500yrs ago) (Dayak). It reflects the Anthropologists views that there is no such race as the "Malays" to begin with. While we are on the subject, how many of you have read the book entitled "Contesting Malayness"? Written by a Professor of National University of Singapore.
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" It's been interesting to read such free-flowing comments on an all "Malaysian" free for all. You don't have to post it in the comments box if you don't want to. Maybe it has nothing to do with your father's struggle, or maybe it has. I reproduce here the comments posted by a Micheal Chick in my blog. I have sought Bergen's permission to reproduce his message (in bold), followed by Micheal Chick's comment (in italics). Of course, many of us would beg to differ. The commentator by the name of Micheal Chick, says that there is no such thing as a/the Malay race. He sent me a very long comment from a commentator to his posting on "Freedom to Choose A Religion". He is witty, smart, funny, irreverent, sometimes self-effacing, and a lot more.