yin & yan said...
what colour?
TQ for the comments.
Anwar from PKR and I guess Nik Aziz from PAS are also aiming to be PM. They are not from UMNO. Anwar seems confident of getting there. Thus now UMNO may not be the criteria anymore to be the PM.
The Agong by tradition appoints a malay muslim because malaysia is actually an islamic state of united sultanates where many sultanates come together.The tradition of the sultanates started well BEFORE Parameswara but enhanced through Islam by Parameswara becoming a muslim. Of course it has started well before the ballot boxes. The rakyat then became muslims (leaving hinduisme/buddhism) together with the sultans so the tradition of the malay being the sultans and MBs continue but this time the malay MBs must also be a muslim since Parameswara and the sultans after him became muslims.
But who is a malay? Raja Petra has always asked us to refer to the msia constitution. It says that a malay is one who speaks malay, practice malay customs and a muslim. It does not say about blood type? Easily Guan Eng is 2/3 malay since he can speak malay and know how to dress up like a malay and I guess has no problems with sambal belacan :) If he is a muslim then Nik Aziz will have no problem accepting him as a PM.
It seems that the definition of a malay is quite simple. To me the malay is just person who has taken up the colour of the place.
I remember seeing the lady (was in the news) said to be a malay staying in korea but when she came back to see her birth place, I saw her more like the old korean ladies that I always see in korean dramas. Well she ate korean food and speaks korean and looks like a korean. She has absorbed the colour of the place just like water in the glass will takes up the colour of the glass.
Yes, you are what you eat (and what you speak). I have seen people claiming that they are malays but staying in makkah but with not a word of malay. I can't recognise them as malays but their features and airmuka are more like arabs.
For that matter even people of arab origins staying in malaysia with now not even a word of arabic on their tounges had a hard time convincing us that they are arabs.
Wisemen used to say arabic is by the tounges. Can you differentiate arabic blood from that of a malay blood or a jewish blood?
What colour? All colours - putih kuning, kuning langsat,hitam manis, sawa matang.
more budu, tempoyak and sambal belacan.
more non baku BM and more local malay dialects and NO DBP languange imprisonment!
Yin & Yan
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