Yin: The Real Stumbling Block To Malaysian Malaysia

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By Mariam Mokhtar Like many, I always thought that the stumbling block to a Malaysian Malaysia is the rural constituencies; I have changed my opinion. A little history lesson can be most illuminating. We don’t have to dig too deeply to see that the poor Malays have always been exploited by the ruling class elite of their own kind. Munshi Abdullah (1796 -1856) the diarist of Malay Society refuted the common perception that the Malays were poor because they were lazy. He observed that it was the rapacity of the ruling class that could demand of the peasants whatever ‘extra’ they had (through their industry) that has demotivated the Malay peasants to not strive harder than to just get enough for their living. Even during the colonial times the rural Malays knew enough about economic opportunities to ask for English-language schools in the kampongs. They were turned down by the Britis…