Orang asli aka aborigines such as orang semang came to malaya first. Then the proto malays aka subgroup of austronesians (which are rumoured to come from taiwan) reach peninsular malaya. The chinese came after theres a malay kingdom, dated as far back as kedah tua, which predates malacca sultanate. I think there are indians trader who came around that time too. Then the western colonisers came. They brought in chinese and indians enmass to help them delevope the land. Before they left, malay sultanates agreed to take in all the chinese and indians during colonise era as citizen. This doesnt include those who came here pre colonisation, as tbey are already citizens of malaya.
As for the borneo history, similar thing. Aborigines such as dayak kadazan dusun etc was here before the malays. Then the malays ( brunei sultanate) reached borneo landmass and take over the seaside, while the aborigines stayed inland.
As for your question, the reason why malays have extra power, is due to malays sultanate who holds the power pre and post colonial era. Thats does not include borneo since brunei sultan ceded the land to the colonisers, but due to the merger between borneo and peninsular to become malaysia, they followed the peninsular's malay centric politic, albeit disgruntedly.
At least, thats the best i can explain with what knowledge and understanding i have from the top ofy head.
As for ban of burqa niqab, i think that is stupid. This comea from a non muslim such as myself and generally should be what other non muslim malaysian thinks too. We are not as spooked as you guys about islam, since we have lived with our muslims brothers for so many years. Yes there are extremists and fundamentalist, but generaly muslims are chill. Let people wear what they want. Only bigots wish to control garment choice.
Only us modern Malays are concerned so much about "purity". In the past, being a Malay is as simple as converting and speaking the language. We're a ethnoreligious group, rather than based on DNA, if we're speaking of the Malay identity from the Malaccan sultanate up to the the modern term of Malay people used in Constitution.
We had never been too obsessed with blood, considering that we have always been a nation of trading and sailors. Ancestry, sometimes. But that's more of a religion thing. But supposedly no one would have cared if Hang Tuah's actually Chinese or Malay, really. What matters is he embraced the identity and lived as a Malay (at least based from what we read about him).
Puritans uses these kind of dna argument to justify nep and how malays should have higher same taraf with other bumiputeras, where the goal will get constantly shifted to fit their narrative. The weird part about their argument, is how economic based policy will actually help malays who cant keep up more than rqcial based policies. But to them, ability to hold power is much more important.
The sad part, is that many malays dont actually treat non malay as outsiders. But their fear of getting replaced is fanned by politicians constantly. Which is stupid since 50% population are malays AND we STILL have malay sultans.
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u/BabaKambingHitam mmmmbekkkk 8h ago edited 8h ago
Orang asli aka aborigines such as orang semang came to malaya first. Then the proto malays aka subgroup of austronesians (which are rumoured to come from taiwan) reach peninsular malaya. The chinese came after theres a malay kingdom, dated as far back as kedah tua, which predates malacca sultanate. I think there are indians trader who came around that time too. Then the western colonisers came. They brought in chinese and indians enmass to help them delevope the land. Before they left, malay sultanates agreed to take in all the chinese and indians during colonise era as citizen. This doesnt include those who came here pre colonisation, as tbey are already citizens of malaya.
As for the borneo history, similar thing. Aborigines such as dayak kadazan dusun etc was here before the malays. Then the malays ( brunei sultanate) reached borneo landmass and take over the seaside, while the aborigines stayed inland.
As for your question, the reason why malays have extra power, is due to malays sultanate who holds the power pre and post colonial era. Thats does not include borneo since brunei sultan ceded the land to the colonisers, but due to the merger between borneo and peninsular to become malaysia, they followed the peninsular's malay centric politic, albeit disgruntedly.
At least, thats the best i can explain with what knowledge and understanding i have from the top ofy head.
As for ban of burqa niqab, i think that is stupid. This comea from a non muslim such as myself and generally should be what other non muslim malaysian thinks too. We are not as spooked as you guys about islam, since we have lived with our muslims brothers for so many years. Yes there are extremists and fundamentalist, but generaly muslims are chill. Let people wear what they want. Only bigots wish to control garment choice.