This is a Non story, also featuring Mals and a Bum

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I came across a new Malaysian word recently. It’s “Non”. Hint – it refers to people.If the opposite to Non is also used as widely, I’d be referred to as a Mal. As in a Malay. Because Non refers to a Non-Malay person.I first heard it used casually by a Non friend. She is much practised in it, having spent two decades in the government in increasingly lonely positions as a Non among the many Mals. And non, mon cheri, she wasn’t bitching about it. Just being nonchalant.To be more politically correct, rather than distinguishing between Malays and Non-Malays, the split is between Bumis and non-Bumis. Given that my side is the Bumi side, that would actually make me, in this scheme of things, a Bum!While it’s still a few degrees better than some of the names I’ve been called, it doesn’t quite sound like a compliment though. Not at all.Nonetheless, in this frenetic digital age, it’s n…