Deconstructing the bumiputera construct

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Previously, I have written an article examining how the bumiputera term and the bumiputera/non-bumiputera dichotomy emerged as political constructs and very rapidly metamorphosed into policy constructs in the 1970s.Not only have the constructs remained unchallenged but they have become enduring ‘truths’ conditioning the thinking and impacting the lives of an entire generation of Malaysians.This fabrication and entrenchment of the construct - clearly divisive to the nation’s unity and sense of belonging - did not come about by accident. Neither was it a response to any natural demarcation and separation of the communities that were evolving at the ground level and which required a distinction between the “sons of the soil” and the 'pendatang' communities as the invention of the term implied.The contrived term and dichotomy was a deliberate and opportunistic strategy of …