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	The Malays
		The Malays are the race of people who inhabit the Malay Peninsula (what is today Peninsular Malaysia) and portions of adjacent islands of Southeast Asia, including the east coast of Sumatra, the coast of Borneo, and smaller islands that lie between these areas.
		The present-day Malays of the Peninsula and coasts of the Malay Archipelago are described anthropologically as deutero-Malays and are the descendants of the tribal proto-Malays mixed with modern Indian, Thai, Arab and Chinese blood.
		Malays have also preserved some of their more ancient, animistic beliefs in spirits of the soil and jungle, often having recourse to medicine men or shamans (bomohs) for the treatment of ailments.
	www.sabrizain.demon.co.uk /malaya/malays.htm (518 words)

	The Malay Dilemma
		The tolerance and non-confrontational nature of the Malays has allowed them to be subjugated in their own land by the other races with the collusion of the British.
		The "dilemma", thus, was whether Malays should accept this governmental aid — and Mahathir's position was that they should.
		The dilemma was revisited in 2000-2002 by Mahathir and his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who now argued that Malays were well on the way to catching up, and that they should now be weaned away from the "crutches" that had allowed them to compete.
	www.majicape.com /Boo-T/The_Malay_Dilemma.php (314 words)

	Decolonisation of Malaysia
		No sane man, whether he be English, Malay, Indian, Eurasian, or Chinese, can honestly study the situation in that part of the world and not come to the conclusion that either with or without the opposition of the Western-educated intelligentsia in Malaya, British imperialism will end.
		Malays from all states were galvanized by the blithe disregard for states’ right and Malay pre-eminence over the immigrant peoples.
		Ordinary Malays were considered to be farmers and fisherman with their vernacular education tailored for such humble task.
	uk.geocities.com /tafk2/sneeze/decolonisation_of_malaysia.htm (5155 words)

	The New Malay Dilemma
		It should be remembered that in the past the Malays were not prepared to take up the jobs created by the colonial powers in their effort to exploit the country.
		The new dilemma is whether they should or should not do away with the crutches that they have got used to, which in fact they have become proud of.
		The dilemma faced by those few who want to build a strong, resilient and independent Malay race without crutches is that they are most likely to end up becoming unpopular and losing the ability to influence the changes in the culture and the value system which are necessary.
	www.geocities.com /benign0/agr-disagr/17-1-newmalay.html (1030 words)

	The Singapore Dilemma: Book review
		The Singapore Dilemma The Singapore Dilemma is by Lily Zubaidah Rahim.
		The Singapore Dilemma's conspicuous absence in the book shelves of major Singaporean bookstores and the failure of the mainstream Singaporean papers to review this important study may be indicative of the establishment's uneasy response to Rahim's critical interrogation of the practice of multiracialism and meritocracy in Singapore.
		Significantly, the Singaporean Malay insecurity stemming from their socio-economic and political marginality and the Chinese insecurity as a result of their numerical minority status in a Malay region have reinforced and augmented one another.
	www.singapore-window.org /sw00/001218lr.htm (373 words)

	Commanding Heights : Malaysia Social \| on PBS
		Chinese domination of the economy is a source of simmering anger among Malays, sparking the massive 1969 riots.
		Mahathir's pro-Malay tract, "The Malay Dilemma," is banned.
		1970: The New Economic Policy (NEP) establishes preferential treatment for Malays in society, the government, and the economy as remedies until the target goal of 30 percent Malay equity in the economy is reached.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/my/my_social.html (493 words)

	After The Malay Dilemma: the modern Malay subject and cultural logics of "national cosmopolitanism" in Malaysia. - ...
		Indeed, for the Malay middle classes, the engagement with capitalist modernity is a complex mixture of rejection, accommodation, and revivalism.
		For both colonialism and Malay nationalists, the construction of the Malays as the "first people" invariably entails the Othering of the "immigrant communities"--mainly Chinese--as the "cause" of Malay deprivation and more implicitly, as a model of cultural emulation.
		It is in the negotiation with this historical burden that we witness the emergence of a new existential destiny of the Malay subject.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-1249639_ITM (1590 words)

	The Malay Dilemma
		Mahathir’s first book The Malay Dilemma—first published in the wake of the 1969 riots—is an astonishing document for any politician to have written, notable for its politically incorrect but telling analysis of the gap between the indigenous Malays and the country’s substantial Chinese minority.
		If the educational gaps between Chinese and Malays have been finessed, it is not clear that religious tensions won’t unravel the national fabric.
		Unlike the Chinese and most of the Indians, Malays are Muslim, a legacy of Arab traders who reached the peninsula five centuries ago.
	www.amconmag.com /09_08_03/feature.html (1201 words)

	AsiaSource: AsiaTODAY - A resource of the Asia Society
		Posterity may well judge the man differently, but for anyone who reads 'The Malay Dilemma' in the light of present developments in the country there are bound to be eerie and ironic similarities between the situation that Dr. Mahathir was describing then in the 70s with what is happening at the moment in 1999.
		He believed that the conservative Malay elite in UMNO had created a political culture where politics and government was no longer about serving the public good, but was concerned mainly with the accumulation of power, wealth and largesse which in the end made the Malays even more corrupt and dependent.
		For one thing is patently clear in Dr. Mahathir's 'Malay Dilemma': Namely, that the 'ultra' who articulated his bitter polemic against the leadership of the Tunku was not himself a radical who envisaged a radically new political order shaped by a completely different value and belief system.
	www.asiasource.org /news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=5893 (2317 words)

	PAS vs UMNO
		This community of Malays may be less dependent on the politics of patronage or the dictates of authority for their social mobility and sense of purpose.
		His vision of the Malay was too narrowly based on his perception that the Malay was only concerned with his economic marginalization and that the way out of his predicament was to adopt a capitalist or western model of modernization, only slightly adjusted to accommodate the NEP.
		Thus, despite the NEP’s aim of transforming the Malays into a progressive industrial and commercial class (also modern and perhaps cosmopolitan), droves of middle-class and the ‘new rich’ Malays, and Malay urban intellectuals and civil servants were attracted to Darul Arqam.
	www.aliran.com /oldsite/monthly/2001/4d.html (3418 words)

	Asia Times -
		Malay dissatisfaction boiled over into race riots in 1969, the year Mahathir lost re-election to parliament.
		He was sacked from UMNO and spent three years as a political outcast - time that he used to reflect and write the controversial book The Malay Dilemma that argued that Malays were downtrodden and too apathetic and fatalistic to change and compete with the economically vibrant ethnic Chinese in Malaysia.
		He set out to change the Malays, give them a large helping hand but without taking from the Chinese or foreign capital but by enlarging the economic cake - throwing the door open to foreign capital, investment and expansion of trade and business opportunities.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EI05Ae03.html (1371 words)

	theCICAK » The Malay dilemma: Concerning UMNO, Malays and minorities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At this time the three major races in Malaysia, the Malays, the Chinese and the Indians, were still segregated according to sectors of the economy – Malays in agriculture, most associated with crops in the countryside, Chinese in mining, banking and businesses in the towns, and Indians in the vast rubber estates.
		My point is that the malays, chinese and indians, etc is too much in their “comfort zone” and neither one is doing their contributions to build up the nation.chinese indians have always been complaining about malays visa versa.
		It wasn’t a minority of Malays who supports this idea but fortunately, Tunku’s option has been the choice of most Malays as willingness to share this country with another half number of populations who are people from other region, are bailed with the special rights.
	www.thecicak.com /?p=28 (7381 words)

	Moral Dilemmas -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The logical fallacy of false dilemma, also known as fallacy of the excluded middle, false dichotomy, either/or dilemma or bifurcation, is to set up two alternative points of view as if they were the only options, when they are not.
		The classical prisoner's dilemma (PD) is as follows: :Two suspects A, B are arrested by the police.
		A dilemma is not a situation in which one has to decide between a more or less positive and a more or less negative alternative, but rather a situation in which both alternatives are more or less negative!
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/100/moral-dilemmas.html (1147 words)

	The Malay Dilemma Revisited - A Non-Malay Review
		The topic, ‘The Malay Dilemma Revisited — Race Dynamics in Modern Malaysia’, did excite me greatly, and I must confess I was more interested in the race dynamics more than the Malay dilemma.
		In 1970, when Malays were unsure of themselves and needed the most support and encouragement, their leader confronted them with a devastating assessment of their collective self-worth and timbre.
		With the English language soon to be the teaching medium for science and mathematics in Malaysian schools come next year, Bakri’s indictment on the educational policy of the government in the past few decades again reads as a precursor to future conundrum.
	www.freewebs.com /suaraanum/0308a02.htm (845 words)

	Dragnet in Disneyland: BULLETIN
		Nodding is how one tends to interact with Singapore's downtrodden Malay community, be you a (relatively) wealthy expatriate or an even wealthier member of Singapore's ethnic Chinese majority, descendants from mainland immigrants who, as many Malays here see it, are occupying their land.
		Another Malay infuriation has been the overwhelmingly Chinese government's refusal to allow Malay schoolgirls to wear their traditional tudung headscarves to class in the interests of racial harmony.
		The Malay dilemma is Singapore's truth that dare not speak its name in a place that continually - and correctly - congratulates itself on its racial cohesion.
	www.singapore-window.org /sw02/020925bu.htm (1373 words)

	AlterNet: Affirmative Action in Other Countries
		In his controversial 1970 book "The Malay Dilemma," Mahathir, who is half Malay and half Indian, said that bhumiputra hasn't worked because of Malays' cultural habits.
		Malays' relaxed, folksy and fatalistic lifestyle makes it difficult for them to compete with the Chinese, he claimed.
		Bhumiputra may provide Malays with a kind of psychological buffer against their financial disparities with the Chinese, and to do away with the policy overnight, many say, would plunge the nation into chaos and violence.
	www.alternet.org /story/16391 (1068 words)

	Mahathir Mohamad, Datuk Seri Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Although Mahathir previously had been associated with the "ultra" faction of youthful and chauvinistic UMNO members of Parliament, the immediate cause of the expulsion was his harsh criticism of Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman in the aftermath of serious interethnic violence in May 1969.
		He contended the Malays are the "definitive race" in Malaysia, and they had a right to expect the other ethnic groups to assimilate linguistically and, to some extent, culturally.
		Malays continued to benefit from the implementation of the New Economic Policy, but its application was pragmatic enough to allow a continuing substantial role for Chinese entrepreneurs and, especially at the end of the 1980s, foreign investment.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/mahathir-mohamad-datuk-seri (1542 words)

	Time to tweak NEP
		The reality is most Malays themselves are not happy with the way NEP has been hijacked by a privileged few.
		What we need is to formulate a system to disqualify rich Malay individuals and companies from enjoying some benefits of NEP.
		Malay companies that have a solid footing via government projects should be limited to government projects worth 20 percent of their revenue of the previous year.
	www.malaysiakini.com /letters/55077 (351 words)

	TCS Daily - Dr. Mahathir, Jews and Asian Terror
		He wrote a political tract early in his career called "The Malay Dilemma." It is based on the principles of scientism which was a prominent belief in the West before World War II.
		His Malay nationalism designated Malays as "sons of the earth," gave them preference for government jobs, places at university and shares in private companies.
		The wealth and corruption among wealthy urban Malays is resented in rural areas.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=111403B (870 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Profile: Malaysia's strongman Mahathir
		In 1946, at the age of 21, he joined the newly founded nationalist organisation United Malays National Organisation (Umno), courting attention through a series of provocative articles on the monarchy and the emancipation of women.
		In it he wrote that the Malays had been marginalised during the colonial era and castigated them for apathetically accepting their second class status.
		The Malay Dilemma forged the foundations of Dr Mahathir's nationalist credentials - it struck such a chord with younger Umno leaders that he was invited back into the party, re-elected to parliament in 1974, and appointed minister of education.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/514360.stm (765 words)

	Economies Malay Dilemma Recession hits state-aided entreprene...
		An ethnic Malay, Tajudin has gone from being a poster child of Malaysia's affirmative-action New Economic Policy to an example, in the eyes of NEP critics, of significant flaws in the policy that have been highlighted by the economic downturn.
		Although figures are hard to come by, there's a debate brewing in Kuala Lumpur about better ways to promote entrepreneurship among the Malays and, indeed, about how the goals of the NEP should be pursued in the future.
		Launched in 1971, the NEP aimed to redress the economic imbalance between the majority bumiputras--mostly Malays-- and the wealthier Chinese minority, among other objectives.
	members.tripod.com /reformis99/_disc8/0000002a.htm (639 words)

	DAWN - Features; September 5, 2003
		His father was a schoolteacher and Mahathir had his early education in English schools and later applied, unsuccessfully, for a government scholarship to study law in London, said historian Prof Khoo Kay Kim of University Malaya.
		He was sacked from UMNO and spent three years as a political outcast — time that he used to reflect and write the controversial book ‘The Malay Dilemma’ that argued that Malays were downtrodden and too apathetic and fatalistic to change and compete with the economically vibrant ethnic Chinese in Malaysia.
		He set out to change the Malays, give them a large helping hand but without taking from the Chinese or foreign capital but by enlarging the economic cake — throwing the door open to foreign capital, investment and expansion of trade and business opportunities.
	www.dawn.com /2003/09/05/fea.htm (1199 words)

	Malaysia
		The government is effectively under the control of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), a governing coalition of several indigenous Malay parties headed by the Barisan Nasional (National Front), whose leader is Dr Mahathir bin Muhammad, the prime minister since 1981.
		Sixty per cent of Malaysians are Malay, with ethnic Chinese constituting 30 per cent and Indians 10 per cent of the population.
		The state discriminates in favour of Bumiputras, literally "sons of the soil", meaning ethnic Malays, giving them privileged access to universities and ensuring that Malay culture dominates the media and giving special consideration to Malay businesses.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive1/malaysia/malaysia.htm (958 words)

	Ketuanan Melayu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lee's statement about allegedly recent Malay migration met with stinging rebuttals; Albar declared: "To say that the Malays are in the same category as other races is an insult..." The UMNO newspaper Malaya Merdeka warned: "If the Malays are hard-pressed and their interests are not protected," they would merge Malaysia with Indonesia.
		In addition, it was argued that non-Malays were under-represented in Parliament and the Cabinet because of gerrymandering; mostly Malay rural Parliamentary constituencies outnumbered heterogeneous urban constituencies, despite the total population of urban constituencies exceeding that of rural ones.
		The NEP was also defended as having created a Malay middle class and improving standards of living without compromising the non-Bumiputra share of the economy in absolute terms; statistics indicated that the Chinese and Indian middle classes also grew under the NEP, albeit not as much as the Malays'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ketuanan_Melayu (12278 words)

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