As a Malaysian Chinese that have been involved in government programs and seeing the ups and downs of Malaysia I’ll have to say it’s amazing how you got most of the details correct Thanks for making this video in an objective way
As a Chinese it's disturbing that Indians are usually left out when people talk about Malaysia. They are an important part of our society and their ancestors were sent here to defend our country from the Japanese back in WW2, and now they're treated as if they're second class citizens because they're an ethnic minority.
You give the impression that with the end of the NEP, everything went back to normal. NEP was simply replaced with functionally similar policies, up till today.
You've taken up a lot of topics that i've found to be extremly interesting, this being one amongst them. Explainations of TSMC's creation was really compact and informative, you briefly mentioned national champions in one of your other videos and really appreciate it if you would do more on Japan's and South Korea's economies preferably the zaibatsu and chaebol models. P.S- Loved the one on TSMC and their dutch supplier.
In paper the NEP goal is to raise Bumiputra 's corporate shareholding to at least 30%, but during implementation stage, much of it go to Umno's Malay and their party leaders , so in reality, many decades had passed, the goal has yet to be achieved according to government feedback. 🙄🙄
That part was a disaster. But u cant argue that the Malays didnt make a lot of progress, they make enormous progress to be honest. In fact, it is probably the best "affirmative action" policy in the world based on the results. The ones they did in America (Which btw, heavily discriminate Chinese), India, some African countries are 20x worse than Malaysia.
Very interesting video. I've seen the brain drain first hand, having worked with a fairly large number of Malaysian expats who have explained they love Australia because they are only judged by the work ability, not their race (though some racism does exist, it's a drastic step up in life quality for them) Like many of these systems, it has the problem that is just takes one group as a winner and one as a loser. But if you don't apply poverty as a major additional criteria, what will often happen is the wealthy in a group just take all the advantage and the group that is seen as "already the winners" will have their poor members hurt by the system and to escape will just leave the country if they can.
People voting with their feet show the reality of the situation and is the only score card that shows success or failure. The emigration of Chinese from Malaysia to greater success in Australia clearly shows how bad it is in Malaysia and how good it is in Australia for the ethnic Chinese.
Its a very odd case to have the minority rich and the majority poor. Only other case i come up with in my head is South Africa. Like in my nation we prop up minorities. Like an immigrant can get a car license that cost 5000 dollars from the state. But an norwegian has to pay for that him/herself. So the immigrant has more job oppurtunities (Having a car license is really a must in alot of Norway except the capital, specially if you are to get a good job etc) The majority allready has so many advantages compared too the minority. So aslong as you dont over do it, you can keep poverty in balance. However when you mix religion into things aswell like is the case with Malaysia. Things get very complicated. And not all economic motivated. Here in Norway, our support is 100% economic motivated. State does not give a flying fuck which invisible friend you worship.
@@MrDanisve It isn't all that odd as it's often done by autocratic rulers to favor their ethnic faction, or by colonial rulers to help reward obedient native populations over restive ones (as well as facilitate their divide-and-rule tactics for maintaining control).
@@MrDanisve What is the difference between propping up the minorities or the majorities? I dont see what is the issue here? If you choose to prop the minorities, I dont give a fuck, if we choose to prop the majority why should u gve a fuck? U have the right to set your own IMMIGRATION POLICIES. Malaysia never did. The Malays never wants millions of Chinese coming here but the British forced it upon us. Do you honestly think if 20-30% of the population of Norway are Chinese, White people can survive? Sorry to say, coming from a race (Malay) who are supposedly lazy and having experienced living in Europe and the US, White people are even lazier than the Malays. You telling me if you have such large Chinese populations you can compete with them? I dont buy it. For sure there will be racial flare ups and whatever. Even in America, back in the 1900s the Chinese were destroying all competition from White people. It got so bad that America has to boycott immigrations from China called the Chinese exclussion act. White people CANNOT COMPETE WITH THE CHINESE. Nobody can, only Japanese & The Koreans can. The Chinese will work 2-3 times longer hours than you do. As far as religion. If your country doesnt give a fuck. Great. But why should u GIVE A FUCK if we care. And dont say stuff like Europeans dont care about religion. There are wide spread anger in Europe over the millions of muslim refugees. If Europe doesnt care about religion why souch anger?. I understand the anger, but dont say stuff like your people dont care what religion the minorities are when you do. Stop being a hypocrite. What u r going through is exactly what we went through. Only difference is, u have the worst type of immigrants where they are nothing but losers. We were FORCED to take in a race that is just too good for anybody to handle.
NEP is not an easy subject to talk about. Back then in the 80s and 90s this can even get you jailed without trial. The NEP is an entanglement of racial politics, socioeconomic disparities, ethno-nationalism, conspiracy theories of state terrorism, elitist politics and many more. It is still a very touchy subject in Malaysia till this day, and in schools we are instructed not to talk about such subjects to avoid distrupting social harmony and stability. There are a few interesting topics about how the NEP is implemented, such as the establishment of the Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB). Instead of having the state redistributing corporate stocks by force, the ASNB is set up as a fund manager to invest in companies using capital from selling Bumiputera-only trust units. Another entity that operates in the same way is the Tabung Haji savings fund for Hajj pilgrims. Investing into these entities is as easy as opening an account in any post office or banks, which allows even a rural farmer to get access into financial markets. Pretty sophisticated for a developing country. Another thing is due to it's racial-oriented policies, the NEP had prevented Malaysia from getting any financing from the IMF (not a bad thing actually) and can't bring itself to sign the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), which makes us one of the oddball countries out there.
@@iamgreat1234 did you know that the 2/3 requirement was to protect the East from being railroaded by the Peninsula. When Singapore was booted out, that proportion fell to just 1/4 (Sarawak's 31 DR seats, Sabah 25, out of a total of 222). The Federation has failed the East.
@@RUHappyATM The funny thing is how the East had always voted for MPs that sided with the West election after election, and yet they complain about being sidelined by the West.
@@YoonLeeKok yes, I agree. Look at the demographics of the East. One race dominates the politics when they are the minority. I guess there are a lot of sheep in the East.
Politically they talk about protecting the rights of the bumiputra because they were the original natives of the land but the truth is it actually a racist policy protect the majority malay race. You see, by definition the natives of the land would include the aboriginal tribes of the country called the Orang Asli. However it well known that the malay government themselves have been taking over the ancestral lands of the Orang Asli. You should also mention the malay reserve land policy where large swathes of rural agricultural land reserved only for the Malay race which cannot be owned by other races. Whereas Chinese in the agricultural sector seldom have the right to own the land they farm. They are only given temporary licences which can be taken away by the malay government at any time. There have also been instances where successful Chinese farmers are chased away from their farms after several years of cultivation by being accused being illegal squatters.
Exactly. Malays are not the original people, but a breed that emerged from repeated colonizations in history of various different races. Much like Mexicans are not the original people but are part foreigners.
Mmalays from not indigenous wtf r u joking 😂. Malaya borneo and indonesia have a same blood austronesian. This region is called malay archipelgo for a reason. Ppl in malay archipelego have same blood. Each of the people live in their region have its own civilisation. Malaya have sultanate kingdom same goes to brunei in borneo. Indon have hindu-buddhist kingdom called majapahit. Why cant yall chinese accept the reality that u guys really from mainland china. Same goes to indian. Aren't chinese in taiwan immigrant too. Bcos indgineous in taiwan is austronesian ppl.
Another thing is this issue hidden away from the rest of the world. The Malays are brave in implementing their racist policies because Malaysia is an unknown country that nobody knows. People know about BLM in America blah blah. But nobody else gives two hoots about the apartheid system in Malaysia.
You pronounced the word "bumiputra" spot on; kudos to you. And you've done a very decent job indeed in summarising the political and economic history of the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia.
The first goal of the NEP (@5:20): "Eradication of poverty for ALL", was just a fig leaf. The true goal of the NEP was the second goal: Enriching/ empowering/ favouring the bumiputera. The difference was between a "Malaysian Malaysia" or a "Malay Malaysia". The NEP may have been formally launched in 1971, but the push for a "Malay Malaysia" was evident even in the early 1960s. And led to the Separation (independence) of Singapore. BUT.... I can sympathise and empathise: To be a Malay in Malaysia, and to find your country OWNED by the Chinese must be disenfranchising. Surely something can be done. Must be done. To protect the Malay rights? Except that one criticism of the NEP/Bumiputera policy is that by favouring the Malays, by protecting the Malays, by pampering the Malays, the policy had actually weakened the abilities of the Malay. Instead of learning to succeed in business, with the right connection, a Malay could "succeed" by riding the coat-tails of a Chinese-run business. Instead of strengthening the Malays, the NEP pampered and soften the Malays. And the Chinese and Indians found that they had to be twice as good to succeed. And they became stronger. And if they could, they emigrated.
Seems like the NEP, while it did somehow managed to achieve what it set out to do (particularly second goal), there's also several consequences to that. Brain drain causing loss of capital and making the Bumiputra increasingly dependent.
The situation lead to its policy are more complicated than what you have just stated. It involve disruption of the religious way of life among Malays in general that lead to the formation of NEP. But the social contract is mutually understood by both side as a measure to reduce inequality among ethnic groups. It somehow worked eventhough Chinese are still at the top. But the system has already ended in 1990 and it were replaced by national development policy that set its target to make malaysia a high income nation by 2020. The failure was not during its 70s but after 2000s onwards because there are corrupt politician want gained vote by instill the NEP while many educated malay want an end of this system and move forward to save the economy but it seems doesnt work because of particular corrupt politician used religous dogma on general native population to influence voter to vote for them. That is what happen to the country right now. Its not because of the policy, it is due to inadequate education level of Malays voter and its corrupt dogmatic politician lead to this dead end.
@@TheJohnnyJohnny Yes, it is complicated, and trying to explain the complication in the comment section of a youtube video is going to be a career. Yes, corruption is responsible for a lot of Malaysia's problems. It does not seem like it will be addressed anytime soon. "Dogmatic politician", "Religious dogma" and "religious way of life" all touch on religion, and it seems to me, an outsider, that often the politicians try to be more religious leader than actual religious leaders. Which causes some religious leaders to try to be politicians. or at least political. This creates problems. It is best if there is a separation of state and religion. Otherwise you don't know if you are voting for a political leader or one appointed by god. And the separation of ethnic groups politically is a mistake. it politicises ethnicity. One analysis of Malaysia is that the Chinese have Economic Power, while the Malays have Political Power. I do not know what the Indians have. But this is inherently unstable. If I were a Rich Chinese in Malaysia, I'd say, "let the Malays play at politics, and just let me make money." Is that tenable? Even if it is, it is divisive. As for the failure "not being in the 70s", I think you have to consider what mentality did the "success" of the 70s engender in Malaysians - Malay (bumi putera) Malaysians, Chinese Malaysians, and what sort of politics did it perpetuate? Did corruption erupt spontaneously after 2000, or was it "cultivated" over time? Before 2000. But, I am not a Malaysian, and my views are that of an outside observer. I assume you lived the experience. This gives you a participant's view, but it may also colour your views.
@@angeluscorpius "And the separation of ethnic groups politically is a mistake" - Singapore has a formal division of the population into ethnic buckets that also is institutionalized in its policy, yet they don't have much issue with it. On the contrary it's been highly successful in creating ethnic harmony, most notably by explicitly preventing the kind of ghettoization that is so common to ethnic enclaves all over the world. Rather than being divisive, it's actually reduced divisions substantially by deliberately mixing the populations amongst each other (especially via housing and zoning laws), something which almost never happens naturally.
You can take the word "seems" out of the statement. It was and is an economic apartheid. And it's led Malaysia to an economic dead end of which we're now witnessing the beginning. Valuable natural resources that have stood Malaysia in good stead over more than a century (tin, rubber, petroleum and to a far lesser extent, palm oil) have now been exhausted or replaced globally by other large volume producers or substitute commodity. Yet, in that time, the coddled bumiputra class have little to show in terms of their economic and skills development and still relying on government handouts at a time when the government is no longer in a position to reap windfalls from said commodities. That's why Bloomberg recently liken Malaysia to a failed state. There's no positive way to spin this but to agree with Bloomberg.
@@kindface The Malays have made a lot of progress. To say little is an understatement. There are way too many Malay Engineers, IT professionals, Doctors, etc. And their work are not so disastrous that its putting companies at jeopardy. It used to be that all Malays only want to work with the government in the 60s & 70s, in the 80s & 90s many starts joining private sector, in the 00s & 10s, many Malays started their own businesses but they usually failed. This is a race that really has no experience in doing business collectively speaking. Moral of the story is, every 20 years or so. This is a huge major change. From government sector - private sector - below average business owners. In the future I bet more and more Malays will learn from their ancestors mistakes over how to run a business. Among the younger generation Malays, we have heard the saying "If a Chinese business owner have extra money, they will reinvest it into their business. If its a Malay, they will use it to buy cars" way too many times. It is through obsetvations and listening to the older generations that the Malays have improve generations after generations. In the next 20 years, more and more Malays will be skilled at doing business. U have to remember China is a civilization that has existed for thousands of years. The Malays had such a minor civilizations, they knew nothing about science or trading. To catch up u need time. I am not saying its the right thing to do. But if every countries with multi racial populations (other than Singapore) have their own version of Affirmative Actions. Maybe there is a reason why such policy exist.
@@kindface meh that bloomberg article was a huge exaggeration. basically every country rich or poor faced a surge in poverty and unemployment during the peak of covid, with Malaysia currently on the road to recovery (among the biggest GDP growth this year in Asia) plus, if you actually read that article, (im assuming you only read the headline) it actually mentioned how the NEP Policy has been beneficial for Malaysia’s speedy growth during the 80s and 90s in terms of broadening the malay middle class out of poverty. and if you think the bumiputera are “coddled”, i suggest taking a look at the gulf states and how they treat their natives. now THATS coddling, or even how Norway gives a huge pension fund for their citizens from profits of their oil, although the Norwegians do have to pay fairly high tax. But trust me, if Malaysia is a failed state, then 60-70% of other countries on this planet (with lower GDP per capita, higher debt and lower HDI than Malaysia) are failed states as well. And that just sounds silly.
Concerning your comment about manufacturers hiring bumiputera workers, the manufacturing sector in Malaysia has been partially "hollowed out" in Malaysia with many foreign-owned factories (esp Japanese) who used to hire thousands of local workers having already left for other places such as Vietnam or Batam. They are replaced by a new generation of factories that hire mostly foreigners (from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal etc). Malaysia is now a leading manufacturer of medical gloves hiring tens of thousands of such foreigners. During the past 12 months, they made billions due to Covid but also have thousands of their workers infected due to poor housing. Such is the situation in Malaysia now with several million foreign workers (both legal and undocumented).
@@chengmunwai in countries abroad there are news that in Malaysia are certain latex gloves making factories that use forced labor. As such certain Malaysia manufactured latex gloves are banned from entering overseas.
@@frankyong2607 Some of those factories are a driving distance from where I live. They are not forced laborers. They are employed on a one-year renewable working permit. However, they can only leave the country after being cleared by Immigration and their (former) employer. Some of them are stuck in the airport now because the bureaucracy might be slower during the current lockdown.
Please do a follow up to this video. From a Chinese Malaysian's point of view, the affirmative action hasn't been addressing those that need it most, except concentrating the wealth in the Malay elites through their affiliation with UMNO.
The tallest twin towers in K.L.were built by Japanese and Koreans engineering construction firms with their own nationals, one set of them building one tower. The "richest politicians" are also the most corrupt and crooked.
@@frankyong2607 So by your logic, the Egyptian pyramids were built by Hebrews (Jews) and not Egyptians. Most people consider the financing and ultimate responsibility of a project to be the builder.
It's very sad that Malaysia's inequality issues have caused race to be a major factor in politics. One problem with race-based policies is there's so much difference within each racial group. In America, the black or Asian children of wealthy doctors might go to the best school districts are clearly in a very good position. While there are poor rural whites living around drug addicts in a trailer park in West Virginia, poor blacks in a violent inner-city school district, or the multi-generationally poor descendants of refugees who fled Cambodia in the 1970s. Using the limited tax payer money to improve the lives/education/opportunities of those with the most dire socioeconomic circumstances (regardless of race) is the best approach. In Malaysia of the 1970s (and probably 2020s), even policies blind to race would be helping the ethnic Malays more as a ratio of the population, but it would mean the poorest ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians would also have more opportunities to escape poverty. It takes political leadership to convince a country to adopt policies blind to race. But I think even the ethnic Malays voting blocs could be convinced: much of their privileged positions would be preserved (because as far as I understand Malays continue to be poorer than other races in Malaysia), and it would definitely improve the country's international image and long-term racial harmony.
2nd para is spot on , but sometimes its also worthwhile thinking that despite so many programs launched and massive availability of funds the rural white and inner city black populations still remain poor
Until to day, the non Malays are still being marginalized in business opportunities, education, tenders and contracts too. Top non Malays students are not given sits in the public universities on their wishes course such as doctors, engineers but they are give courses such as agriculture because the government are using quota systems that are very unfair to this top students. This force many top non Malays students to go oversea to do their university’s studies as this country don’t practice merit but more of skins color. Luckily many countries appreciate this talented students and provides them with scholarships. Singapore are definitely one of the country that helped many Malaysia students. Thats why many Malaysia students who graduated from this universities in overseas reluctant to return to Malaysia because they know they will continue to be marginalized in everything if they were to work here. That why Malaysia brain drain will continue as long the government are pushing for race card policies. Even after 60 years, the government are helping the Malays but they just failed to improve to the standards that they targeted and they will continue to failed as long they are still using race based policies. In fact, I think Malaysia are moving backwards if compared to Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, China and Singapore. Many foreign investors are moving away from Malaysia as they can easily find better choice of countries for their investments. Even many factories are shifting their operations to Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and others place as Malaysia are not attractive anymore. Can’t blame them because Malaysia just can’t compete with this countries as they are better in their approach and they give more fair and attractive deals.
Because it is easier to have a boogeyman for the ruling class. Just blame everything on the non-malays and non-muslims, and take stuff for themselves while the people are being misled by their stories. If they truly believe that majority of malays are poor and majority of chinese are rich, they wouldn't mind going for a race-blind policy because the malays would still benefit from it nonetheless.
@@albertchu7926 I think to retaliate, the non-Malays do the same approach to hire the employee too (Mandarin speaker only even though the work requires that in professional settings). I'm a Malay-Chinese mix and I do feel like this policy a bit much if I dont understand what it is. Though some of the Malays tend to abuse this policy. I do think this policy should gradually being work towards equality for all before 100 years independence (or 99 years like the water deal with Singapore). Truth be told, it is not easy and you cannot just willy nilly get all the benefit you know (my friend told me). Also, PhD owner job in Malaysia is not as lucrative and the working environment and the admin of handling things is just unprofessional......worked in the UK before and again soon. Also, you need to know that Bumiputera is not only just Malays. There are others like the orang Asli, the Bidayuh, Kadazan, all the native in Sabah and Sarawak. And seeing their living condition, seems like they need it more, as they lack knowledge and even access to the policy. The only thing that I get perks of being half-Malay is going to a school that is sponsored by the royalty of Perak (stipend every semester only if you keep you grades up) and my dad is from Perak. That is the only extend of it. Please dont go to homogenous school, it is bloody boring and lack competition. The investor possibly move away because the other country has the workpower (cheaper), low currency and not as chill pace as Malaysia. Malaysia do have lots of holiday which is not what investor like when you want to make money.
@@daisuke910 It is not the same, bumiputera privileges/ affirmative action for bumiputera is a national policy implemented by the government so it is institutional discimination against the non-bumi who pay taxes to government as well. Private companies run by non-malays which require mandarin speakers is not institutional discrimination as they are private enterprises funded by private interests. And this argument may be used against the Chinese, but how about the Indians? Bumiputera policies do disproportionately favour Malays as there's usually employment preference for muslims in Civil Service and most GLCs as well.
On the one hand I think it's unfair that the ethnic minority communities are treated like 2nd-class citizens. On the other hand, I also understand the Malays. They were colonised by the British, and the British allowed massive immigration. When Malaysia became independent in 1957, even though the Malays were the majority, the Chinese and Indians dominated the economy. If I was Malay, I would also (as the native community) want to take control, and ensure that Malays remained the majority in the country, and that the core values and laws reflected their preferences. No ethnic majority wants to give way - the same applies to the white majority in the United States. They want to stay the majority - this is understandable. Same applies to Singapore- the govt has actually said that the ethnic makeup (Chinese : 75%; Indians: 10%; Malays: 15%) works for Singapore, and should not be changed. At the end of the day, the Chinese Singaporeans want to stay in the majority- that is why the govt encourages Chinese (and to a lesser extent) Indian immigration, to make up for the delta in fertility between Malays on the one hand, and Chinese and Indians on the other
The Malays were actually not the outright majority race during independence of Malaya. The Chinese were the largest racial segregation if you include Singapore. That was the reason why they consequently joined up with the British colonies in Borneo which was way across the South China Sea with their Bumiputra majority population; to increase the percentage of Malays. Don't you think that the country is so strangely set up where an entire country is divided into two by an entire sea. In any case, over the years, the Chinese population decreased in percentage because of lower birth rates and migration due to this racial economic policy, whereas the Malay birth rate increased. The mirror image of Singapore. And of course, the Malaysian government made no effort chnage this because this is the scenario they wanted. I might add that it's joke to claim that the Indians also dominated the economy because right now the Indian race is probably the poorest race in Malaysia. Ask them if they have seen any government policies made to alleviate their economic status. Of course not. This racial economic policy is to enrich the majority race which holds the political power in the country, not to bring equilibrium to the economic state of the races like they claim.
@@hailyrizzo5428 and do you reckon the non-malays "bumis" of the East enjoy the same economics and political benefits as the Malay "bumis" of the West?
In the seventies, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore were at par economically. And look at Malaysia today, she has to compete with Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines.
@@hankeat that is sadly true. It takes a special kind of drive to push forward. Most cultural groups lack that, Singapore was lucky to have the right leadership at the right time in history pursuing the right policies(atleast the most forward thinking and functional policies) in society that valued certain aspects of the cultural triats of its dominant majority with a deep understamding of its own geopolitical conditions.
Malaysia was actually richer than Germany(Federal Republic of) in the early 50s, was richer than South Korea in the 60s, was richer than Taiwan in the 70s, was richer than Russia(SFSR) in the 80s, was richer than China(Mainlanders) in the 90s, was richer than Chile(now an OECD member) in the early 2000s and now merely surpasses Indonesia(slightly, but the Javanese have been catching up fast).
There is a reason why minorities in Malaysia keep leaving Malaysia over the years. People are not stupid, they ultimately vote by their own feet at the end of the day. What Malaysia implemented was not about economic redistribution or inequality reduction. You were deceived. If they care about helping the poors, the policies should be apply broadly to all the poors regardless of race. There are many poor ethnic Chinese and Indians in Malaysia but they did not receive the same helps as for the Malays. The policies were racist, implemented in guise of inequality reduction. Hence, I am very sensitive and highly aware nowadays whenever politicians say “inequality reduction”, as to whether they really mean helping the poors, or just siding a certain race.
It's good luck that there is such a thing allowed as emigration and immigration for the Chinese Malaysians. Or else they would suffer like those under the Communist Bloc did in Eastern Europe. As you so rightly pointed out, the proof of the unfairness/bad policies of Malaysia is the high emigration of the ethnic Chinese.
I've always thought the best way to uplift an ethnic group that's fallen behind others is to just go for educational and economic opportunity, starting from the womb. If you wait until someone is seeking higher education or in the workforce, it's already too late. Their mothers have to be able to provide for the kid in a way that allows them to grow healthy and properly and have time for school. They have to go to school and receive a good education that isn't reduced by poverty (in the US this would be things like being too poor to do extracurricular activities or go on field trips. I know most of the personal growth I had in high school happened after the school day). Then finally, higher education needs to be accessible to them, not based on affirmative action, because if you did the above they won't need it, but based on the whether they can afford it, especially merit based scholarships should be available. The problem of course is, in a growing economy, those already with assets will keep getting richer, likely faster than those without assets can join them. I'm not sure redistribution is the right answer here. In the US, we skipped over this problem for several generations by slowly expanding who's considered white. If you look at the numbers, most white groups are richer based on the longer they've been here. More recent immigrant groups are going to be underrepresented at Yale and Harvard. You'll see more White Anglo-Saxon Protestants at an Ivy League school than Irish, and you'll see more Irish than Italians, and more Italians than eastern Europeans...that is if you can access that data. As these groups have intermarried for several generations and are all considered "white", with many of their descendants not even knowing where their ancestors are from. So this tendency of the rich getting richer at least as fast as the poor get rich wasn't entirely visible in America based on ethnic lines until the past century or so due to ethnic lines constantly getting blurred. What is to be done? I don't know. Nothing might be an answer. Just make it so that all newcomers to economic success can eat as much pie as they want. It might not be a perfect solution, but I think it works.
@12:50, these Bumiputra policies(NEP) have led to an emergence of a large Malay middle class at the expense of an ever shrinking population of Chinese ancestry which is the primary source of massive brain drain. The ringgit to pound(UK) could better explicate the social economic repercussions of the Bumiputra policies: MYR has depreciated over -80% in comparison to the pound over the course of nearly 70 years after independence. Your personal portfolio would vastly outperform the Malaysian economy had you bought and held gold in 1957.
@@hdjfjd8 It's actually quite analogous to the reverse apartheid in South Africa today as Afrikaners have been on an economic flight to ANZ that even Canberra has designated a special purpose visa for these Cape Bushmen.
@@hdjfjd8 Singapore has a formal division of the population into ethnic buckets that also is institutionalized in its policy, yet they don't have much issue with it. On the contrary it's been highly successful in creating ethnic harmony, most notably by explicitly preventing the kind of ghettoization that is so common to ethnic enclaves all over the world. Rather than being divisive, it's actually reduced divisions substantially by deliberately mixing the populations amongst each other (especially via housing and zoning laws), something which almost never happens naturally.
Non sense. The US dollar never suffered from a large depreciations after decades of their failed affirmative actions policy. The NEP was a success and it brought stability to a country that was going through horrible racial flare ups. I love how everybody just love to hate and trash the Malays. But do u really know what led to the May 13th, 1969 incident and what led to the late Tun Razak having to take such drastic meassures to lift the Malays income ASAP? Prior to Tun Razak the Malays was granted special rights on paper, but it was hardly practiced. There was a reason why the late Tun Razak had to take such drastic actions. The Chinese arent as innocent as u think. Plus it isnt fair. White people in America was scared of competition from Chinese because they knew the Chinese will destroy them, so they came out with the Chinese exclussion act. They were given the choice to discriminate and choose only people they want to come to their country. Malaysia was never given a choice. The British imported millions of Chinese into this country, which we never wanted. And then here comes some White guy trying to insult the Malays as if we are such losers. When we all know if millions of Chinese comes to the UK or any European countries right now and make up 20-30% of the population. White people will get their asse* kicked, and they would start getting angry, and they will have their European version of "Affirmative Actions" or NEP.
Pointing out an error on your part. "Bumiputera" does not translate as "Sons of the soil". It's basically a portmanteau of the word "bumi" (roughly translated as "earth") and "putera" (meaning "prince"). The "Sons of the soil" translation seems to be more to soften external perceptions of what is basically a ideology of racial supremacy. (Calling your self the "Princes of the earth" is a dead giveaway.
According to PRPM, bumi can also mean "permukaan bumi, tanah" and putera "anak atau anak laki-laki". In fact, the Sanskrit originals (bumi and putera are loans from Sanskrit) mean "soil" and "son" respectively, although the word bhumiputra itself is used in a different sense (to either mean the planet Mars or a legendary figure in Indian mythology called Narakasura, who was the son/putra of another legendary figure called Bhumi). Therefore, it's not an error. Fun fact: 'Putra' is a cognate of 'puer', the Latin word for boy.
I don't mind having them called by any fancy names. Imagine, you can employ one of these ethnic princes to wash your toilets, sweep the roads or deliver food to you. 😆 🤣
@@jarjarbinks3193 The term is derived from the Sanskrit which was later absorbed into the classical Malay word bhumiputra [Sanskrit "भूमिपुत्र"], which can be translated literally as "son of the land" or "son of the soil". In Indonesia, this term is known as "Pribumi".
This is great. But for one thing. If only you had asked a Malaysian, spelling out UMNO everytime is just weird. Yes it is an abbreviation. Yes it is frequently capitalized. But no UMNO member, no Malaysian, would spell out the letters everytime. Think NASA.
It's funny that you label the NEP as a "communist-style" move, when it's really soft-fascism in practice. The very conception of bumiputra is basically malay supremacy, as in, they literally call it that. And the NEP merely ended on paper, but its policies are well-entrenched and alive to this day. Also, while a malay middle class had emerge through the NEP, the majority of its beneficiaries are UMNO cronies. The NEP essentially empowered and expanded the post-colonial plutocracy and kleptrocracy. I'm Malaysian, btw.
The majority of its beneficiaries are not UMNO cronies. There are millions of Malay middle class in Malaysia. Are u telling me all those millions are UMNO cronies? I worked at a company where its owned by a Chinese but there are thousands of Malays here. Majority of us are middle class, are we all UMNO cronies too? Get real.
@@secrets.295 the truth is you’re both right, the NEP managed to expand the Bumiputera middle class, grant a huge population access to better education and careers, speed up economic growth but at the same time siphoning tons of cash into the pockets of corrupt cronies of the ruling party. the difference now is that the NEP has run out of steam as Malaysia is stuck in upper-middle status, struggling to break out of the trap to reach high income or developed status like Singapore and South Korea managed to do, which made all the corruption more visible to the public eye as the country isnt seeing speedy progress that it enjoyed in the 80s and 90s. This is why the NEP needs to be replaced with something better, it has ran its course.
I think this shows the dangers of race-based wealth redistribution policies and affirmative action. Government shouldn’t decide winners or losers in regard to race, nor should they implement economic policies that benefit one race over another. Let people make their one wealth.
What say you about the Philippines’ own constitutional provisions on the 60-40 requirement? Seems to me it failed just looking at the state of affairs. It inadvertently shields oligarchs in the country from much foreign competition.
Most of the Gaian World is sharing your interest in resource allocation in a restricted and responsible way. It is do and/or die for individuals who have to sacrifice a degree of personal liberty if only to raise children, and limit profligacy in others who threaten the shated responsibility for children and Planet.
I think you have disregarded the minorities living in east malaysia in sabah and sarawak where Malays are not dominant but speak same language. Economy planned from the top normally will not be successful. It will never achieve its target unless the money is spent building a strong foundation at the bottom in the form of good education and stimulus to encourage entrepreneurship. There is no example of a successful planned wealth sharing country.
You're mispronouncing UMNO, you don't spell it out as U-M-N-O when you pronounce it, it's just pronounced as a single word with 2 syllables, Umno, the UM makes the same 'um' sound as the um in thumb and NO, well it's the same as the word 'no.' Also, at 14:12, you talk about Chinese discontent triggering a brain drain, and then you talk about Malays leaving Malaysia. I'm confused, did you make a mistake and mean to say Malaysian Chinese leaving Malaysia? Because some foreigners incorrectly call all Malaysians Malay even if they're Chinese. And from the statistics I've looked at, most Malaysians leaving the country are Chinese.
The Scandinavian model for equality. That is something that I as a Dane with mental handicap can stand by. I am getting compensated for my lag of ability to hold a part time job, while I am studying. Getting 8800DKK a month. (Before taxes) The Danish poverty line is 2080USD a month of disposable income.(after taxes) And so on. I believe it to be a well rounded model that can benefit the greatest part of society. Ow, yeah and we have free universities(covering 50,000DKK each semester if we want to study outside of Denmark)
No. The entire Scandinavian model simply the welfare state. Individuals simply become leeches on the society, no self-worth, no contribution, and no assets. A model for equality is about giving individuals the ability to achieve, not making their outcome equal whether or not they do a chief. A society which pays garbage collectors the same as surgeons is a society which is headed for catastrophe, especially if there's no external source of plunder or Revenue to cover the loss of performance from people not being rewarded for their extra work. In the case of Scandinavia, the export of Natural Resources is largely the methodology of covering this Gap. While opportunity will not solve all problems, as their issues that individual May face with support from his family unit that the state cannot overcome, it is the best way to see equality in a society. Although no one wants to talk about it, for all the so-called inclusion and diversity measures in the western world for invisible ethnic minorities these are little more than window dressing. A qualified minority, whatever his Merit, we'll have less opportunity than a member of the majority society as opportunities are first and foremost about the perception of the person and their fit for the organization, for which a member of the majority will be seen as a better candidate always.
Tbh a lot of Indians are malaysia are more attached to Malaysia and their home state in India than India itself. For me I'm Malaysian first, always. Then I'm proudly Malayalee and proudly Dravidian. Maybe after that I'm Indian
You pronounce bumiputera really well, just like a local. UMNO is pronounced Uhm-noh. No one pronounces it by spelling out the individual letters U.M.N.O. The original party actually died with the Malaysian Constitutional Crisis of 1989 due to Mahathir. The party split into two camps. After winning the party war and forming his own new UMNO, he pretty much hijacked the judiciary making it subservient to the government (no more constitutional rule of law), enabling him to become somewhat of a racial supremacist dictator. The current UMNO is more like UMNO 2.0, it was a newly registered party during the split. But over time it took over the old UMNO's legacy.
Malaysia is one of the lost opportunity country stuck in middle income and from here on, it will slowly shrink based on dwindling oil revenues, corruption, weak institutions, this policy (NEP) that continues to this day as official government policy, brain drain of the non-Malays and nationalism that does not allow for say education systems to be in English in order to stay competitive. The people and government of Malaysia ought to be ashamed of themselves, a country down south with no natural resources and with 1/6 of the population has a far larger GDP than Malaysia - thats Singapore...In the years to come, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar (when it gets it act together and stop killing its own people) will eat Malaysia's lunch and from then on this country will degrade to a lower middle income with further spiral downwards as hungrier and more ambitious countries take over. With population growth of 1.1% (way below replacement) and with a poor education system that does not value English, the two engines that drive economic growth (favourable demographics and productivity) will further compound Malaysia's problems. Malaysia is also no longer a low cost country, so labour arbitrage to encourage foreign investment is no longer possible. The population, unlike say the US, is not large enough to have a viable consumption economy. So its ironic that Malaysia is now falling into becoming another vassal state of China with the billions of dollars of corruption money from China going into the government and politicians. That's why you don't hear much on Malaysia in international business and economic news - you hear about Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Philippines lately....so Malaysia is a sad basket case and such a waste
So what do you think about the conflict between mainland China and Taiwan? Should Taiwan be an independent country? What about the Chinese communist party? So you think it's a good thing it a bad thing? Should it be time that the CCP is replaced by a truly democratic system?
I don’t see the CCP being replaced anytime soon. It has its warts of course and most Chinese people will acknowledge that but I suspect if we were to do honest polls we would find it to be quite popular and reasonably competent.
The only way to do honest polling is with regular free and fair elections: even the Trump vote was higher than polled in 2016 and 2020 due to the famous "shy Trump voter". I'm sure there's a massive "shy CCP supporter" (and "shy staunchly anti CCP" groups too). High-ranking members of the Taiwanese government have said that Taiwan is not going to unify with China unless it becomes a full-fledged democracy compatible with Taiwan. And the Taiwanese people have been voting clearly against unification with Xi Jinping's China. Especially along generational lines (and everybody sees what happened to Hong Kong). And the most likely way that China will become a democracy is if a reformer like Taiwan's Chiang Ching-kuo makes the Chinese Communist Party a democratically competitive party and slowly loosens the restrictions like Deng Xiaoping did for the economy. It may take a few decades from the leadership to come to the realization that this is the only path forward that would see China growing. Though Xi Jinping may still be in power in 3 decades, so I doubt this will happen. If China doesn't have democratic reform it's a just a matter of time (a few short decades away) until Taiwan formalizes its status as being an independent and sovereign country for more than 150 years (since 1912) and it will formally rename itself the Republic of Taiwan. Time is ticking for China, so the next few decades are dangerous. I recommend listening to Jim Fanell's "Decade of Concern" arguments. The easiest way to do this is from episode #45 of the China Unscripted podcast, which is available on TH-cam under the titled "#45 How Big a Threat is China's Navy? | Captain Jim Fanell".
@@Asianometry "reasonably competant" despite all its flaws this is something most critics of china fail to notice, the generation that lives on in the west is mostly oblivious to the chaos and trauma the non western scoieties endured, so everything and anything that these non westerm states pursue is seen as evil/fascistic(in all honesty they are) but they fail to understand why, the injection of political correctness into public discourse has diluted the wests capacity for critical thinking primarily in the political sphere.
@@Asianometry I wonder why isn't the US criticizing Singapore as it's just as authoritarian over there(some cybersites are actually blocked in the city-state).
I lived in Malaysia for over thirty years. This video highlights some "difficulties" towards the non-Malay Muslims (those who are minorities and not ethnic Malays with Muslim religion) caused by the Malay Muslims. This video is still a sanitized condensed version that is only a tip of the iceberg. Malaysia is having a bad stagnating economy and growing unemployment even before covid-19 lockdown. Racism is widespread. Culturally many places were erased and left to rot to be Islamlized and Malaynized. Today's Malaysian Asian Indian youth are no different than those in the 1990s and 1980s. Today's Malaysian Chinese youth are more and more bad quality compare to those born in the 1980s. Worrisome was the Malaysian Chinese youth who speaks Chinese languages but growing culturally blind and both economically and financially inept. A disturbing trend of freely mingle side with Malays to bully the Malaysian Chinese who wanted to learn, work, befriend, and being Malaysian Chinese. Those bad Chinese I mention can speak Chinese and raised in a Chinese environment are no Chinese at all and the sort you can say are bullies who make life difficult for others. How am I the racist here?
Call Malay, not natives only make Malay people and politicians have excuses to bully bigotry Chinese due Malay has many ethnic among themselves how to know which group earliest and lot Chinese there just as early as Malay too.
Both Malays and the Orang Asli are considered the indigenous population. There were already many kingdoms in the malay peninsula even before the first chinese communities( Langkasuka, chih tu, pan pan, gangga negara, kota gelanggi, old pahang, old kedah, bujang valley, )
@@akalaqru4996 tons oversea Chinese had already settled long before so call Malay natives but over time they become local Malay natives too, just like Vietnamese, Kinh group but scientists trace their origins mostly from southern Chinese with big beautiful wonderful round eyes like me and tan skin tone. So you can say Vietnamese are Kinh group, just majority though, other ethnics bern in Vietnam just as long too, or you can say they're Chinese Vietnamese too. Same with Malay, some but not most, duh. Overtime they've evolved more brown skin due tropica sun and bigger noses to breath hot loose oxygen air. Same with American native Indians, for whited they are American Indians but for my Asians then America natives are Asian Americans, duh.
Cant even understand whats a BUMIPUTRA and yet complaining. Its not only org asli? Practically all of the Sarawak/Sabah tribes, Thai decendence, Javanese, Sunadanese, Bataks , Those Mamaks ..these are Bumi dude.
Malays are not native. They immigrated to Malaysia 700 years ago. Orang asli are the true natives. 60 years of 'affirmative action' and the bumi putra still need help. The word 'redistribute' is an euphemism for steal.
You're right about the Orang Asli being the true natives. However, the Malays are "thought to have migrated to the Malay archipelago in a long series of migrations between 2500 and 1500 BC."
Lol if u say orang asli is the native and malay from Indonesia. Then ppl in Indonesia came from where. China and India also have native live in jungle so chnese and India. Came from. Where? Hahaha lol malay already live here and have civilisation for thousand years. Fine if u don't like the fact malay originate in Malaysia then we can call malay originate in malay archipelago of south east Asia not 🧔🏿👲😂.
The problem is that the Malays are NOT the natives of Malaysia, the earliest Malays migrants came from Sumatera (Indonesia) in the 15th century, the first wave of Chinese immigrants (Peranakan Chinese, considered as 'Chinese" by the government) arrived after Cheng He of the Ming dynasty (from the Treasure Fleet fame) settled in the Malay Peninsula (West Malaysia) in the 16th century although most of the Chinese population migrated to Malaysia during British times. The natives of Malaysia are called Orang Asli, literally means native people in Malay, is still an impoverished class in Malaysia. The kicker is that second generation Muslim Indonesians are classified as bumiputra, one such even held a ministerial position. History of Malacca "Malacca was founded by Parameswara, also known as Iskandar Shah. He found his way to Malacca around 1402 where he found a good port-it was accessible in all seasons and on the strategically located narrowest point of the Malacca Straits." The first Chinese immigrants to settle in the Malay Archipelago arrived from Guangdong and Fujian provinces in the 10th century C.E. They were joined by much larger numbers of the Chinese in the 15th through 17th centuries, following on the heels of the Ming emperor's reopening of Chinese-Malay trade relations in the 15th century."
The Malacca Sultanate wasn’t the first Malay Kingdom. Never heard about the Malay Kingdom of Langkasuka (Kedah)? The kingdom is believed to have been founded in the 2nd century.
@@sambaltempe5970 "Langkasuka was an ancient Malay (Hindu-Buddhist) kingdom located in the Malay Peninsula.[1] The name is Sanskrit in origin; it is thought to be a combination of langkha for "resplendent land" -sukkha for "bliss". The kingdom, along with Old Kedah, is probably among the earliest kingdoms founded on the Malay Peninsula. The exact location of the kingdom is of some debate, but archaeological discoveries at Yarang near Pattani, THAILAND suggest a probable location." balik Thailand loh
@@brainwashington1332 lol. it’s just an example to prove that Malay didn’t necessarily originated from Sumatra. we are really the indigenous people of Malay Peninsula. btw you can also read about the the Kingdoms of Gangga Negara & Old Kedah.
@@sambaltempe5970 Old Kedah used to be a domain of Siam too, go back to Thailand. unless u are Orang Asli, u are not native to the Malay Peninsular. if Malay peninsula belongs to the malays, then South China Sea belongs to China
@@brainwashington1332 you messed up dude. relax. i’m just trying to prove to you that malays are really the indigenous people of malay peninsula. well, whether you can accept it or not, but that’s the fact.
Other than the wealth being distributed too elites rather than the ethnic Malay population, I believe the policies are fair. I'm sorry but you can't move to a country (colony or not) and not adopt the culture or religion. In Islam worshiping and creating idols is a major sin and takes you out of the fold. Many Chinese and Indians hold this idol worship in their beliefs and as such causes major problems with integration. If you don't like it just move out of the country they already snatched singapore.
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As a Malaysian Chinese that have been involved in government programs and seeing the ups and downs of Malaysia I’ll have to say it’s amazing how you got most of the details correct
Thanks for making this video in an objective way
As a Chinese it's disturbing that Indians are usually left out when people talk about Malaysia. They are an important part of our society and their ancestors were sent here to defend our country from the Japanese back in WW2, and now they're treated as if they're second class citizens because they're an ethnic minority.
I agree. My fellow indians are tough.
Communist Chinese or Taiwan ROC Chinese?
Lol say what? It's malay soldier who fought the Japanese and pkm chnese 😂
@@jonaspetethey're malaysian chinese, duh
You give the impression that with the end of the NEP, everything went back to normal. NEP was simply replaced with functionally similar policies, up till today.
You've taken up a lot of topics that i've found to be extremly interesting, this being one amongst them. Explainations of TSMC's creation was really compact and informative, you briefly mentioned national champions in one of your other videos and really appreciate it if you would do more on Japan's and South Korea's economies preferably the zaibatsu and chaebol models.
P.S- Loved the one on TSMC and their dutch supplier.
It’s on the plan to do so. Thanks for watching!
dude these vids are high quality af you're going to be huge this is one of my fav channels on here keep up the good work my man
Punctuation, my dude!
Bro needs to work on his grammar and speaking in a consistent cadence. Too herky jerky
Just watched like 6 of your videos straight. I’m an analyst myself and this is real high quality content. Keep it up !
In paper the NEP goal is to raise Bumiputra 's corporate shareholding to at least 30%, but during implementation stage, much of it go to Umno's Malay and their party leaders , so in reality, many decades had passed, the goal has yet to be achieved according to government feedback. 🙄🙄
That part was a disaster. But u cant argue that the Malays didnt make a lot of progress, they make enormous progress to be honest. In fact, it is probably the best "affirmative action" policy in the world based on the results. The ones they did in America (Which btw, heavily discriminate Chinese), India, some African countries are 20x worse than Malaysia.
Your videos are always on such interesting and underexplored areas! Keep working on the quality and I think you'll do incredibly well
Great video!
By the way, UMNO is usually pronounced as one word "Umm noh"!
Thanks for the info. I wasn’t familiar with this previously.
@@Asianometry No problem buddy, it's not immediately apparent. You nailed the pronunciation of "bumiputera" though which is amazing
lol "umm, no" as in "thanks but no thanks"?
the correct pronunciation of UMNO is: CORRUPTION
@@Aggrofool and FASCIST
Very interesting video. I've seen the brain drain first hand, having worked with a fairly large number of Malaysian expats who have explained they love Australia because they are only judged by the work ability, not their race (though some racism does exist, it's a drastic step up in life quality for them)
Like many of these systems, it has the problem that is just takes one group as a winner and one as a loser. But if you don't apply poverty as a major additional criteria, what will often happen is the wealthy in a group just take all the advantage and the group that is seen as "already the winners" will have their poor members hurt by the system and to escape will just leave the country if they can.
People voting with their feet show the reality of the situation and is the only score card that shows success or failure. The emigration of Chinese from Malaysia to greater success in Australia clearly shows how bad it is in Malaysia and how good it is in Australia for the ethnic Chinese.
Its a very odd case to have the minority rich and the majority poor. Only other case i come up with in my head is South Africa.
Like in my nation we prop up minorities. Like an immigrant can get a car license that cost 5000 dollars from the state. But an norwegian has to pay for that him/herself.
So the immigrant has more job oppurtunities (Having a car license is really a must in alot of Norway except the capital, specially if you are to get a good job etc)
The majority allready has so many advantages compared too the minority. So aslong as you dont over do it, you can keep poverty in balance.
However when you mix religion into things aswell like is the case with Malaysia. Things get very complicated. And not all economic motivated. Here in Norway, our support is 100% economic motivated. State does not give a flying fuck which invisible friend you worship.
@@MrDanisve It isn't all that odd as it's often done by autocratic rulers to favor their ethnic faction, or by colonial rulers to help reward obedient native populations over restive ones (as well as facilitate their divide-and-rule tactics for maintaining control).
@@MrDanisve In Norway, the reverse discrimination is for the minority. In Malaysia, the reverse discrimination is for the majority. Big difference.
@@MrDanisve What is the difference between propping up the minorities or the majorities? I dont see what is the issue here? If you choose to prop the minorities, I dont give a fuck, if we choose to prop the majority why should u gve a fuck?
U have the right to set your own IMMIGRATION POLICIES. Malaysia never did. The Malays never wants millions of Chinese coming here but the British forced it upon us. Do you honestly think if 20-30% of the population of Norway are Chinese, White people can survive? Sorry to say, coming from a race (Malay) who are supposedly lazy and having experienced living in Europe and the US, White people are even lazier than the Malays. You telling me if you have such large Chinese populations you can compete with them? I dont buy it. For sure there will be racial flare ups and whatever. Even in America, back in the 1900s the Chinese were destroying all competition from White people. It got so bad that America has to boycott immigrations from China called the Chinese exclussion act.
White people CANNOT COMPETE WITH THE CHINESE. Nobody can, only Japanese & The Koreans can. The Chinese will work 2-3 times longer hours than you do.
As far as religion. If your country doesnt give a fuck. Great. But why should u GIVE A FUCK if we care. And dont say stuff like Europeans dont care about religion. There are wide spread anger in Europe over the millions of muslim refugees. If Europe doesnt care about religion why souch anger?. I understand the anger, but dont say stuff like your people dont care what religion the minorities are when you do. Stop being a hypocrite. What u r going through is exactly what we went through. Only difference is, u have the worst type of immigrants where they are nothing but losers. We were FORCED to take in a race that is just too good for anybody to handle.
I wish you didn't make it seem like the NEP ended when in fact it's basically still the status quo today
high quality and well researched content 🔥
NEP is not an easy subject to talk about. Back then in the 80s and 90s this can even get you jailed without trial.
The NEP is an entanglement of racial politics, socioeconomic disparities, ethno-nationalism, conspiracy theories of state terrorism, elitist politics and many more. It is still a very touchy subject in Malaysia till this day, and in schools we are instructed not to talk about such subjects to avoid distrupting social harmony and stability.
There are a few interesting topics about how the NEP is implemented, such as the establishment of the Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB). Instead of having the state redistributing corporate stocks by force, the ASNB is set up as a fund manager to invest in companies using capital from selling Bumiputera-only trust units. Another entity that operates in the same way is the Tabung Haji savings fund for Hajj pilgrims. Investing into these entities is as easy as opening an account in any post office or banks, which allows even a rural farmer to get access into financial markets. Pretty sophisticated for a developing country.
Another thing is due to it's racial-oriented policies, the NEP had prevented Malaysia from getting any financing from the IMF (not a bad thing actually) and can't bring itself to sign the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), which makes us one of the oddball countries out there.
@@iamgreat1234 did you know that the 2/3 requirement was to protect the East from being railroaded by the Peninsula.
When Singapore was booted out, that proportion fell to just 1/4 (Sarawak's 31 DR seats, Sabah 25, out of a total of 222). The Federation has failed the East.
@@RUHappyATM The funny thing is how the East had always voted for MPs that sided with the West election after election, and yet they complain about being sidelined by the West.
@@YoonLeeKok yes, I agree.
Look at the demographics of the East.
One race dominates the politics when they are the minority.
I guess there are a lot of sheep in the East.
Asianometry quickly becoming my favorite channel on TH-cam
Politically they talk about protecting the rights of the bumiputra because they were the original natives of the land but the truth is it actually a racist policy protect the majority malay race. You see, by definition the natives of the land would include the aboriginal tribes of the country called the Orang Asli. However it well known that the malay government themselves have been taking over the ancestral lands of the Orang Asli. You should also mention the malay reserve land policy where large swathes of rural agricultural land reserved only for the Malay race which cannot be owned by other races. Whereas Chinese in the agricultural sector seldom have the right to own the land they farm. They are only given temporary licences which can be taken away by the malay government at any time. There have also been instances where successful Chinese farmers are chased away from their farms after several years of cultivation by being accused being illegal squatters.
Exactly. Malays are not the original people, but a breed that emerged from repeated colonizations in history of various different races. Much like Mexicans are not the original people but are part foreigners.
kinda looks like a sad attempt to not look like foreign workers tbh. Just call yourselves malaysians and stop trying so hard to call us "not natives".
Mmalays from not indigenous wtf r u joking 😂. Malaya borneo and indonesia have a same blood austronesian. This region is called malay archipelgo for a reason. Ppl in malay archipelego have same blood. Each of the people live in their region have its own civilisation. Malaya have sultanate kingdom same goes to brunei in borneo. Indon have hindu-buddhist kingdom called majapahit. Why cant yall chinese accept the reality that u guys really from mainland china. Same goes to indian. Aren't chinese in taiwan immigrant too. Bcos indgineous in taiwan is austronesian ppl.
If I am not mistaken, the Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia are not classified as Bumiputra.
Another thing is this issue hidden away from the rest of the world. The Malays are brave in implementing their racist policies because Malaysia is an unknown country that nobody knows. People know about BLM in America blah blah. But nobody else gives two hoots about the apartheid system in Malaysia.
You pronounced the word "bumiputra" spot on; kudos to you. And you've done a very decent job indeed in summarising the political and economic history of the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia.
The first goal of the NEP (@5:20): "Eradication of poverty for ALL", was just a fig leaf. The true goal of the NEP was the second goal: Enriching/ empowering/ favouring the bumiputera. The difference was between a "Malaysian Malaysia" or a "Malay Malaysia". The NEP may have been formally launched in 1971, but the push for a "Malay Malaysia" was evident even in the early 1960s. And led to the Separation (independence) of Singapore.
BUT.... I can sympathise and empathise: To be a Malay in Malaysia, and to find your country OWNED by the Chinese must be disenfranchising. Surely something can be done. Must be done. To protect the Malay rights?
Except that one criticism of the NEP/Bumiputera policy is that by favouring the Malays, by protecting the Malays, by pampering the Malays, the policy had actually weakened the abilities of the Malay. Instead of learning to succeed in business, with the right connection, a Malay could "succeed" by riding the coat-tails of a Chinese-run business.
Instead of strengthening the Malays, the NEP pampered and soften the Malays. And the Chinese and Indians found that they had to be twice as good to succeed. And they became stronger. And if they could, they emigrated.
Seems like the NEP, while it did somehow managed to achieve what it set out to do (particularly second goal), there's also several consequences to that. Brain drain causing loss of capital and making the Bumiputra increasingly dependent.
Ah, yes, the Ali Baba system. Read all about it.
The situation lead to its policy are more complicated than what you have just stated. It involve disruption of the religious way of life among Malays in general that lead to the formation of NEP. But the social contract is mutually understood by both side as a measure to reduce inequality among ethnic groups. It somehow worked eventhough Chinese are still at the top. But the system has already ended in 1990 and it were replaced by national development policy that set its target to make malaysia a high income nation by 2020. The failure was not during its 70s but after 2000s onwards because there are corrupt politician want gained vote by instill the NEP while many educated malay want an end of this system and move forward to save the economy but it seems doesnt work because of particular corrupt politician used religous dogma on general native population to influence voter to vote for them. That is what happen to the country right now. Its not because of the policy, it is due to inadequate education level of Malays voter and its corrupt dogmatic politician lead to this dead end.
@@TheJohnnyJohnny Yes, it is complicated, and trying to explain the complication in the comment section of a youtube video is going to be a career. Yes, corruption is responsible for a lot of Malaysia's problems. It does not seem like it will be addressed anytime soon. "Dogmatic politician", "Religious dogma" and "religious way of life" all touch on religion, and it seems to me, an outsider, that often the politicians try to be more religious leader than actual religious leaders. Which causes some religious leaders to try to be politicians. or at least political. This creates problems. It is best if there is a separation of state and religion. Otherwise you don't know if you are voting for a political leader or one appointed by god. And the separation of ethnic groups politically is a mistake. it politicises ethnicity. One analysis of Malaysia is that the Chinese have Economic Power, while the Malays have Political Power. I do not know what the Indians have. But this is inherently unstable. If I were a Rich Chinese in Malaysia, I'd say, "let the Malays play at politics, and just let me make money." Is that tenable? Even if it is, it is divisive. As for the failure "not being in the 70s", I think you have to consider what mentality did the "success" of the 70s engender in Malaysians - Malay (bumi putera) Malaysians, Chinese Malaysians, and what sort of politics did it perpetuate? Did corruption erupt spontaneously after 2000, or was it "cultivated" over time? Before 2000.
But, I am not a Malaysian, and my views are that of an outside observer. I assume you lived the experience. This gives you a participant's view, but it may also colour your views.
@@angeluscorpius "And the separation of ethnic groups politically is a mistake" - Singapore has a formal division of the population into ethnic buckets that also is institutionalized in its policy, yet they don't have much issue with it. On the contrary it's been highly successful in creating ethnic harmony, most notably by explicitly preventing the kind of ghettoization that is so common to ethnic enclaves all over the world. Rather than being divisive, it's actually reduced divisions substantially by deliberately mixing the populations amongst each other (especially via housing and zoning laws), something which almost never happens naturally.
this policy seems like a Malaysian economic apartheid
You can take the word "seems" out of the statement. It was and is an economic apartheid. And it's led Malaysia to an economic dead end of which we're now witnessing the beginning. Valuable natural resources that have stood Malaysia in good stead over more than a century (tin, rubber, petroleum and to a far lesser extent, palm oil) have now been exhausted or replaced globally by other large volume producers or substitute commodity. Yet, in that time, the coddled bumiputra class have little to show in terms of their economic and skills development and still relying on government handouts at a time when the government is no longer in a position to reap windfalls from said commodities. That's why Bloomberg recently liken Malaysia to a failed state. There's no positive way to spin this but to agree with Bloomberg.
Is closer to Zimbabwe but less extreme.
@@Al-ng2wn Its similar to the US affirmative actions, but the Malays are doing much better than Black Americans
@@kindface The Malays have made a lot of progress. To say little is an understatement. There are way too many Malay Engineers, IT professionals, Doctors, etc. And their work are not so disastrous that its putting companies at jeopardy. It used to be that all Malays only want to work with the government in the 60s & 70s, in the 80s & 90s many starts joining private sector, in the 00s & 10s, many Malays started their own businesses but they usually failed. This is a race that really has no experience in doing business collectively speaking. Moral of the story is, every 20 years or so. This is a huge major change. From government sector - private sector - below average business owners. In the future I bet more and more Malays will learn from their ancestors mistakes over how to run a business. Among the younger generation Malays, we have heard the saying "If a Chinese business owner have extra money, they will reinvest it into their business. If its a Malay, they will use it to buy cars" way too many times. It is through obsetvations and listening to the older generations that the Malays have improve generations after generations. In the next 20 years, more and more Malays will be skilled at doing business. U have to remember China is a civilization that has existed for thousands of years. The Malays had such a minor civilizations, they knew nothing about science or trading. To catch up u need time. I am not saying its the right thing to do. But if every countries with multi racial populations (other than Singapore) have their own version of Affirmative Actions. Maybe there is a reason why such policy exist.
@@kindface meh that bloomberg article was a huge exaggeration. basically every country rich or poor faced a surge in poverty and unemployment during the peak of covid, with Malaysia currently on the road to recovery (among the biggest GDP growth this year in Asia) plus, if you actually read that article, (im assuming you only read the headline) it actually mentioned how the NEP Policy has been beneficial for Malaysia’s speedy growth during the 80s and 90s in terms of broadening the malay middle class out of poverty. and if you think the bumiputera are “coddled”, i suggest taking a look at the gulf states and how they treat their natives. now THATS coddling, or even how Norway gives a huge pension fund for their citizens from profits of their oil, although the Norwegians do have to pay fairly high tax.
But trust me, if Malaysia is a failed state, then 60-70% of other countries on this planet (with lower GDP per capita, higher debt and lower HDI than Malaysia) are failed states as well. And that just sounds silly.
I'm from Malaysia. You pronounced 'Bumiputera' correctly but 'UMNO' is pronounced here as 'arm-no' but without 'r' sound in the first syllable.
Ha, my bad. It’s clear I’m not from Malaysia at all.
Concerning your comment about manufacturers hiring bumiputera workers, the manufacturing sector in Malaysia has been partially "hollowed out" in Malaysia with many foreign-owned factories (esp Japanese) who used to hire thousands of local workers having already left for other places such as Vietnam or Batam. They are replaced by a new generation of factories that hire mostly foreigners (from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal etc). Malaysia is now a leading manufacturer of medical gloves hiring tens of thousands of such foreigners. During the past 12 months, they made billions due to Covid but also have thousands of their workers infected due to poor housing. Such is the situation in Malaysia now with several million foreign workers (both legal and undocumented).
@@chengmunwai in countries abroad there are news that in Malaysia are certain latex gloves making factories that use forced labor. As such certain Malaysia manufactured latex gloves are banned from entering overseas.
@@frankyong2607 Some of those factories are a driving distance from where I live. They are not forced laborers. They are employed on a one-year renewable working permit. However, they can only leave the country after being cleared by Immigration and their (former) employer. Some of them are stuck in the airport now because the bureaucracy might be slower during the current lockdown.
@@chengmunwai thanks for your clarification.
Please do a follow up to this video.
From a Chinese Malaysian's point of view, the affirmative action hasn't been addressing those that need it most, except concentrating the wealth in the Malay elites through their affiliation with UMNO.
5:46 thats actually the exact pronunciation haha. Good job 👍🏻
Until today if you go to any kopitiam, ah peks uncles are still angry at the unfairness of the affirmative action
Results of NEP. Some tallest building and richest politicians in the world.
The tallest twin towers in K.L.were built by Japanese and Koreans engineering construction firms with their own nationals, one set of them building one tower. The "richest politicians" are also the most corrupt and crooked.
@@frankyong2607 So by your logic, the Egyptian pyramids were built by Hebrews (Jews) and not Egyptians. Most people consider the financing and ultimate responsibility of a project to be the builder.
I know literally nothing about Asia. I love your stuff
0:34 i bet this KL pic is 20 years ago. Nostalgic.
It's very sad that Malaysia's inequality issues have caused race to be a major factor in politics. One problem with race-based policies is there's so much difference within each racial group. In America, the black or Asian children of wealthy doctors might go to the best school districts are clearly in a very good position. While there are poor rural whites living around drug addicts in a trailer park in West Virginia, poor blacks in a violent inner-city school district, or the multi-generationally poor descendants of refugees who fled Cambodia in the 1970s.
Using the limited tax payer money to improve the lives/education/opportunities of those with the most dire socioeconomic circumstances (regardless of race) is the best approach.
In Malaysia of the 1970s (and probably 2020s), even policies blind to race would be helping the ethnic Malays more as a ratio of the population, but it would mean the poorest ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians would also have more opportunities to escape poverty.
It takes political leadership to convince a country to adopt policies blind to race. But I think even the ethnic Malays voting blocs could be convinced: much of their privileged positions would be preserved (because as far as I understand Malays continue to be poorer than other races in Malaysia), and it would definitely improve the country's international image and long-term racial harmony.
2nd para is spot on , but sometimes its also worthwhile thinking that despite so many programs launched and massive availability of funds the rural white and inner city black populations still remain poor
Until to day, the non Malays are still being marginalized in business opportunities, education, tenders and contracts too. Top non Malays students are not given sits in the public universities on their wishes course such as doctors, engineers but they are give courses such as agriculture because the government are using quota systems that are very unfair to this top students. This force many top non Malays students to go oversea to do their university’s studies as this country don’t practice merit but more of skins color. Luckily many countries appreciate this talented students and provides them with scholarships. Singapore are definitely one of the country that helped many Malaysia students. Thats why many Malaysia students who graduated from this universities in overseas reluctant to return to Malaysia because they know they will continue to be marginalized in everything if they were to work here. That why Malaysia brain drain will continue as long the government are pushing for race card policies. Even after 60 years, the government are helping the Malays but they just failed to improve to the standards that they targeted and they will continue to failed as long they are still using race based policies. In fact, I think Malaysia are moving backwards if compared to Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, China and Singapore. Many foreign investors are moving away from Malaysia as they can easily find better choice of countries for their investments. Even many factories are shifting their operations to Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and others place as Malaysia are not attractive anymore. Can’t blame them because Malaysia just can’t compete with this countries as they are better in their approach and they give more fair and attractive deals.
Because it is easier to have a boogeyman for the ruling class. Just blame everything on the non-malays and non-muslims, and take stuff for themselves while the people are being misled by their stories. If they truly believe that majority of malays are poor and majority of chinese are rich, they wouldn't mind going for a race-blind policy because the malays would still benefit from it nonetheless.
@@albertchu7926 I think to retaliate, the non-Malays do the same approach to hire the employee too (Mandarin speaker only even though the work requires that in professional settings). I'm a Malay-Chinese mix and I do feel like this policy a bit much if I dont understand what it is. Though some of the Malays tend to abuse this policy. I do think this policy should gradually being work towards equality for all before 100 years independence (or 99 years like the water deal with Singapore). Truth be told, it is not easy and you cannot just willy nilly get all the benefit you know (my friend told me). Also, PhD owner job in Malaysia is not as lucrative and the working environment and the admin of handling things is just unprofessional......worked in the UK before and again soon.
Also, you need to know that Bumiputera is not only just Malays. There are others like the orang Asli, the Bidayuh, Kadazan, all the native in Sabah and Sarawak. And seeing their living condition, seems like they need it more, as they lack knowledge and even access to the policy.
The only thing that I get perks of being half-Malay is going to a school that is sponsored by the royalty of Perak (stipend every semester only if you keep you grades up) and my dad is from Perak. That is the only extend of it. Please dont go to homogenous school, it is bloody boring and lack competition.
The investor possibly move away because the other country has the workpower (cheaper), low currency and not as chill pace as Malaysia. Malaysia do have lots of holiday which is not what investor like when you want to make money.
@@daisuke910 It is not the same, bumiputera privileges/ affirmative action for bumiputera is a national policy implemented by the government so it is institutional discimination against the non-bumi who pay taxes to government as well. Private companies run by non-malays which require mandarin speakers is not institutional discrimination as they are private enterprises funded by private interests. And this argument may be used against the Chinese, but how about the Indians? Bumiputera policies do disproportionately favour Malays as there's usually employment preference for muslims in Civil Service and most GLCs as well.
On the one hand I think it's unfair that the ethnic minority communities are treated like 2nd-class citizens. On the other hand, I also understand the Malays. They were colonised by the British, and the British allowed massive immigration. When Malaysia became independent in 1957, even though the Malays were the majority, the Chinese and Indians dominated the economy. If I was Malay, I would also (as the native community) want to take control, and ensure that Malays remained the majority in the country, and that the core values and laws reflected their preferences. No ethnic majority wants to give way - the same applies to the white majority in the United States. They want to stay the majority - this is understandable. Same applies to Singapore- the govt has actually said that the ethnic makeup (Chinese : 75%; Indians: 10%; Malays: 15%) works for Singapore, and should not be changed. At the end of the day, the Chinese Singaporeans want to stay in the majority- that is why the govt encourages Chinese (and to a lesser extent) Indian immigration, to make up for the delta in fertility between Malays on the one hand, and Chinese and Indians on the other
Problem is 50 years ago and 50 yrs from now they still same lah. Always lagging behind
The Malays were actually not the outright majority race during independence of Malaya. The Chinese were the largest racial segregation if you include Singapore. That was the reason why they consequently joined up with the British colonies in Borneo which was way across the South China Sea with their Bumiputra majority population; to increase the percentage of Malays. Don't you think that the country is so strangely set up where an entire country is divided into two by an entire sea. In any case, over the years, the Chinese population decreased in percentage because of lower birth rates and migration due to this racial economic policy, whereas the Malay birth rate increased. The mirror image of Singapore. And of course, the Malaysian government made no effort chnage this because this is the scenario they wanted. I might add that it's joke to claim that the Indians also dominated the economy because right now the Indian race is probably the poorest race in Malaysia. Ask them if they have seen any government policies made to alleviate their economic status. Of course not. This racial economic policy is to enrich the majority race which holds the political power in the country, not to bring equilibrium to the economic state of the races like they claim.
2 wrongs don't make one right though
@@TheDavidLiou bumi policies, outright racism by malaysian government isn't right at all
@@hailyrizzo5428 and do you reckon the non-malays "bumis" of the East enjoy the same economics and political benefits as the Malay "bumis" of the West?
In the seventies, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore were at par economically. And look at Malaysia today, she has to compete with Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines.
The difference between Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore is she isn't led by Chinese.
@@hankeat that is sadly true. It takes a special kind of drive to push forward. Most cultural groups lack that, Singapore was lucky to have the right leadership at the right time in history pursuing the right policies(atleast the most forward thinking and functional policies) in society that valued certain aspects of the cultural triats of its dominant majority with a deep understamding of its own geopolitical conditions.
Malaysia was actually richer than Germany(Federal Republic of) in the early 50s, was richer than South Korea in the 60s, was richer than Taiwan in the 70s, was richer than Russia(SFSR) in the 80s, was richer than China(Mainlanders) in the 90s, was richer than Chile(now an OECD member) in the early 2000s and now merely surpasses Indonesia(slightly, but the Javanese have been catching up fast).
@@heinrichklaus5717 Indonesia is not just javanese you know.
@@abcddef2112 Ugh, my bad...I literally mean all islanders within the Indonesian archipelago.
This is why my parents left Malaysia in the late 70s. They had both studied in the UK and felt Malaysia was not a fair society to start a family.
not just dozen death during that riot. we even go for "Darurat" during that time.
thx
There is a reason why minorities in Malaysia keep leaving Malaysia over the years. People are not stupid, they ultimately vote by their own feet at the end of the day. What Malaysia implemented was not about economic redistribution or inequality reduction. You were deceived. If they care about helping the poors, the policies should be apply broadly to all the poors regardless of race. There are many poor ethnic Chinese and Indians in Malaysia but they did not receive the same helps as for the Malays. The policies were racist, implemented in guise of inequality reduction. Hence, I am very sensitive and highly aware nowadays whenever politicians say “inequality reduction”, as to whether they really mean helping the poors, or just siding a certain race.
It's good luck that there is such a thing allowed as emigration and immigration for the Chinese Malaysians. Or else they would suffer like those under the Communist Bloc did in Eastern Europe. As you so rightly pointed out, the proof of the unfairness/bad policies of Malaysia is the high emigration of the ethnic Chinese.
@@prst99 For the malay dominated UMNO in a race-based political environment, emigration of their main competitor racial block is just a feature.
I've always thought the best way to uplift an ethnic group that's fallen behind others is to just go for educational and economic opportunity, starting from the womb. If you wait until someone is seeking higher education or in the workforce, it's already too late. Their mothers have to be able to provide for the kid in a way that allows them to grow healthy and properly and have time for school. They have to go to school and receive a good education that isn't reduced by poverty (in the US this would be things like being too poor to do extracurricular activities or go on field trips. I know most of the personal growth I had in high school happened after the school day). Then finally, higher education needs to be accessible to them, not based on affirmative action, because if you did the above they won't need it, but based on the whether they can afford it, especially merit based scholarships should be available.
The problem of course is, in a growing economy, those already with assets will keep getting richer, likely faster than those without assets can join them. I'm not sure redistribution is the right answer here. In the US, we skipped over this problem for several generations by slowly expanding who's considered white. If you look at the numbers, most white groups are richer based on the longer they've been here. More recent immigrant groups are going to be underrepresented at Yale and Harvard. You'll see more White Anglo-Saxon Protestants at an Ivy League school than Irish, and you'll see more Irish than Italians, and more Italians than eastern Europeans...that is if you can access that data. As these groups have intermarried for several generations and are all considered "white", with many of their descendants not even knowing where their ancestors are from. So this tendency of the rich getting richer at least as fast as the poor get rich wasn't entirely visible in America based on ethnic lines until the past century or so due to ethnic lines constantly getting blurred. What is to be done? I don't know. Nothing might be an answer. Just make it so that all newcomers to economic success can eat as much pie as they want. It might not be a perfect solution, but I think it works.
@12:50, these Bumiputra policies(NEP) have led to an emergence of a large Malay middle class at the expense of an ever shrinking population of Chinese ancestry which is the primary source of massive brain drain. The ringgit to pound(UK) could better explicate the social economic repercussions of the Bumiputra policies: MYR has depreciated over -80% in comparison to the pound over the course of nearly 70 years after independence. Your personal portfolio would vastly outperform the Malaysian economy had you bought and held gold in 1957.
this whole Bhumi putra policy Seems a bit like economic apartheid
@@hdjfjd8 It's actually quite analogous to the reverse apartheid in South Africa today as Afrikaners have been on an economic flight to ANZ that even Canberra has designated a special purpose visa for these Cape Bushmen.
@@heinrichklaus5717 It's pathetic in both cases . Any form of apartheid or racism by any racial group shouldn't be tolerated
@@hdjfjd8 Singapore has a formal division of the population into ethnic buckets that also is institutionalized in its policy, yet they don't have much issue with it. On the contrary it's been highly successful in creating ethnic harmony, most notably by explicitly preventing the kind of ghettoization that is so common to ethnic enclaves all over the world. Rather than being divisive, it's actually reduced divisions substantially by deliberately mixing the populations amongst each other (especially via housing and zoning laws), something which almost never happens naturally.
Non sense. The US dollar never suffered from a large depreciations after decades of their failed affirmative actions policy.
The NEP was a success and it brought stability to a country that was going through horrible racial flare ups. I love how everybody just love to hate and trash the Malays. But do u really know what led to the May 13th, 1969 incident and what led to the late Tun Razak having to take such drastic meassures to lift the Malays income ASAP? Prior to Tun Razak the Malays was granted special rights on paper, but it was hardly practiced. There was a reason why the late Tun Razak had to take such drastic actions. The Chinese arent as innocent as u think.
Plus it isnt fair. White people in America was scared of competition from Chinese because they knew the Chinese will destroy them, so they came out with the Chinese exclussion act. They were given the choice to discriminate and choose only people they want to come to their country. Malaysia was never given a choice. The British imported millions of Chinese into this country, which we never wanted. And then here comes some White guy trying to insult the Malays as if we are such losers. When we all know if millions of Chinese comes to the UK or any European countries right now and make up 20-30% of the population. White people will get their asse* kicked, and they would start getting angry, and they will have their European version of "Affirmative Actions" or NEP.
Pointing out an error on your part. "Bumiputera" does not translate as "Sons of the soil". It's basically a portmanteau of the word "bumi" (roughly translated as "earth") and "putera" (meaning "prince"). The "Sons of the soil" translation seems to be more to soften external perceptions of what is basically a ideology of racial supremacy. (Calling your self the "Princes of the earth" is a dead giveaway.
I still consider sons of the soil as racial supremacy and a sense of entitlement.
According to PRPM, bumi can also mean "permukaan bumi, tanah" and putera "anak atau anak laki-laki". In fact, the Sanskrit originals (bumi and putera are loans from Sanskrit) mean "soil" and "son" respectively, although the word bhumiputra itself is used in a different sense (to either mean the planet Mars or a legendary figure in Indian mythology called Narakasura, who was the son/putra of another legendary figure called Bhumi). Therefore, it's not an error.
Fun fact: 'Putra' is a cognate of 'puer', the Latin word for boy.
I don't mind having them called by any fancy names. Imagine, you can employ one of these ethnic princes to wash your toilets, sweep the roads or deliver food to you. 😆 🤣
5:50 It’s good, don’t worry about it. Even if it wasn’t, it’s not a big deal.
Since u come from the United States. I wonder what your thoughts are on Affirmative Actions? Which is a far more disastrous policy than the NEP.
Love your quality insights.
Bumiputra translated into English means Prince of Earth
Boomi - Earth
Putra - Son(s)
@@jarjarbinks3193 The term is derived from the Sanskrit which was later absorbed into the classical Malay word bhumiputra [Sanskrit "भूमिपुत्र"], which can be translated literally as "son of the land" or "son of the soil". In Indonesia, this term is known as "Pribumi".
Man, I am requesting you the evidences for your research, how could I have them for my university assignment?
This is great. But for one thing. If only you had asked a Malaysian, spelling out UMNO everytime is just weird. Yes it is an abbreviation. Yes it is frequently capitalized. But no UMNO member, no Malaysian, would spell out the letters everytime. Think NASA.
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Wealth owned by Chinese. Politics by.malays and labour by indians.thats one hell.of a good policy
Correction, labour by the banglas. The Indians have nothing now other than managing car parking lots
It's funny that you label the NEP as a "communist-style" move, when it's really soft-fascism in practice. The very conception of bumiputra is basically malay supremacy, as in, they literally call it that. And the NEP merely ended on paper, but its policies are well-entrenched and alive to this day. Also, while a malay middle class had emerge through the NEP, the majority of its beneficiaries are UMNO cronies. The NEP essentially empowered and expanded the post-colonial plutocracy and kleptrocracy.
I'm Malaysian, btw.
The majority of its beneficiaries are not UMNO cronies. There are millions of Malay middle class in Malaysia. Are u telling me all those millions are UMNO cronies? I worked at a company where its owned by a Chinese but there are thousands of Malays here. Majority of us are middle class, are we all UMNO cronies too? Get real.
@@secrets.295 But one thing remains the same. Fuck corrupt politicians, they are the source of the problem in Malaysia. It just goes without saying.
@@secrets.295 the truth is you’re both right, the NEP managed to expand the Bumiputera middle class, grant a huge population access to better education and careers, speed up economic growth but at the same time siphoning tons of cash into the pockets of corrupt cronies of the ruling party. the difference now is that the NEP has run out of steam as Malaysia is stuck in upper-middle status, struggling to break out of the trap to reach high income or developed status like Singapore and South Korea managed to do, which made all the corruption more visible to the public eye as the country isnt seeing speedy progress that it enjoyed in the 80s and 90s. This is why the NEP needs to be replaced with something better, it has ran its course.
Blacks or Ebony are not Bumiputra in USA, it was Navajo, Cheyenne, Sioux....
I think this shows the dangers of race-based wealth redistribution policies and affirmative action. Government shouldn’t decide winners or losers in regard to race, nor should they implement economic policies that benefit one race over another. Let people make their one wealth.
maybe bankrupting ur country so ur wife can go shopping should be off the list lol
bumi putra = earth's son
Collective rights are an easier pill to swallow for collectivist societies ig
What say you about the Philippines’ own constitutional provisions on the 60-40 requirement? Seems to me it failed just looking at the state of affairs. It inadvertently shields oligarchs in the country from much foreign competition.
Most of the Gaian World is sharing your interest in resource allocation in a restricted and responsible way. It is do and/or die for individuals who have to sacrifice a degree of personal liberty if only to raise children, and limit profligacy in others who threaten the shated responsibility for children and Planet.
Malaysia is an alternative for Singaporeans 😊
NEP only helps rich people instead people in need of help.
I think you have disregarded the minorities living in east malaysia in sabah and sarawak where Malays are not dominant but speak same language.
Economy planned from the top normally will not be successful. It will never achieve its target unless the money is spent building a strong foundation at the bottom in the form of good education and stimulus to encourage entrepreneurship.
There is no example of a successful planned wealth sharing country.
The idea of the public sector creating a private one.
You're mispronouncing UMNO, you don't spell it out as U-M-N-O when you pronounce it, it's just pronounced as a single word with 2 syllables, Umno, the UM makes the same 'um' sound as the um in thumb and NO, well it's the same as the word 'no.'
Also, at 14:12, you talk about Chinese discontent triggering a brain drain, and then you talk about Malays leaving Malaysia. I'm confused, did you make a mistake and mean to say Malaysian Chinese leaving Malaysia? Because some foreigners incorrectly call all Malaysians Malay even if they're Chinese. And from the statistics I've looked at, most Malaysians leaving the country are Chinese.
I think the video intended to say Chinese Malaysian.
Sounds like New Extortion Program.
Actually the joke by some is that NEP stands for Never Ending Policy 😀
The Scandinavian model for equality.
That is something that I as a Dane with mental handicap can stand by.
I am getting compensated for my lag of ability to hold a part time job, while I am studying. Getting 8800DKK a month. (Before taxes)
The Danish poverty line is 2080USD a month of disposable income.(after taxes)
And so on. I believe it to be a well rounded model that can benefit the greatest part of society.
Ow, yeah and we have free universities(covering 50,000DKK each semester if we want to study outside of Denmark)
No. The entire Scandinavian model simply the welfare state. Individuals simply become leeches on the society, no self-worth, no contribution, and no assets. A model for equality is about giving individuals the ability to achieve, not making their outcome equal whether or not they do a chief. A society which pays garbage collectors the same as surgeons is a society which is headed for catastrophe, especially if there's no external source of plunder or Revenue to cover the loss of performance from people not being rewarded for their extra work. In the case of Scandinavia, the export of Natural Resources is largely the methodology of covering this Gap.
While opportunity will not solve all problems, as their issues that individual May face with support from his family unit that the state cannot overcome, it is the best way to see equality in a society. Although no one wants to talk about it, for all the so-called inclusion and diversity measures in the western world for invisible ethnic minorities these are little more than window dressing. A qualified minority, whatever his Merit, we'll have less opportunity than a member of the majority society as opportunities are first and foremost about the perception of the person and their fit for the organization, for which a member of the majority will be seen as a better candidate always.
Soon, Malaysia victory and success is because of Indian Men potential......Jai Hind
Tbh a lot of Indians are malaysia are more attached to Malaysia and their home state in India than India itself.
For me I'm Malaysian first, always. Then I'm proudly Malayalee and proudly Dravidian. Maybe after that I'm Indian
You pronounce bumiputera really well, just like a local.
UMNO is pronounced Uhm-noh. No one pronounces it by spelling out the individual letters U.M.N.O.
The original party actually died with the Malaysian Constitutional Crisis of 1989 due to Mahathir. The party split into two camps. After winning the party war and forming his own new UMNO, he pretty much hijacked the judiciary making it subservient to the government (no more constitutional rule of law), enabling him to become somewhat of a racial supremacist dictator.
The current UMNO is more like UMNO 2.0, it was a newly registered party during the split. But over time it took over the old UMNO's legacy.
Malaysia is one of the lost opportunity country stuck in middle income and from here on, it will slowly shrink based on dwindling oil revenues, corruption, weak institutions, this policy (NEP) that continues to this day as official government policy, brain drain of the non-Malays and nationalism that does not allow for say education systems to be in English in order to stay competitive. The people and government of Malaysia ought to be ashamed of themselves, a country down south with no natural resources and with 1/6 of the population has a far larger GDP than Malaysia - thats Singapore...In the years to come, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar (when it gets it act together and stop killing its own people) will eat Malaysia's lunch and from then on this country will degrade to a lower middle income with further spiral downwards as hungrier and more ambitious countries take over. With population growth of 1.1% (way below replacement) and with a poor education system that does not value English, the two engines that drive economic growth (favourable demographics and productivity) will further compound Malaysia's problems. Malaysia is also no longer a low cost country, so labour arbitrage to encourage foreign investment is no longer possible. The population, unlike say the US, is not large enough to have a viable consumption economy. So its ironic that Malaysia is now falling into becoming another vassal state of China with the billions of dollars of corruption money from China going into the government and politicians. That's why you don't hear much on Malaysia in international business and economic news - you hear about Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Philippines lately....so Malaysia is a sad basket case and such a waste
Singapore was expelled from Malaysia on 9 August 1965
So what do you think about the conflict between mainland China and Taiwan?
Should Taiwan be an independent country?
What about the Chinese communist party? So you think it's a good thing it a bad thing? Should it be time that the CCP is replaced by a truly democratic system?
I don’t see the CCP being replaced anytime soon. It has its warts of course and most Chinese people will acknowledge that but I suspect if we were to do honest polls we would find it to be quite popular and reasonably competent.
The only way to do honest polling is with regular free and fair elections: even the Trump vote was higher than polled in 2016 and 2020 due to the famous "shy Trump voter". I'm sure there's a massive "shy CCP supporter" (and "shy staunchly anti CCP" groups too).
High-ranking members of the Taiwanese government have said that Taiwan is not going to unify with China unless it becomes a full-fledged democracy compatible with Taiwan. And the Taiwanese people have been voting clearly against unification with Xi Jinping's China. Especially along generational lines (and everybody sees what happened to Hong Kong).
And the most likely way that China will become a democracy is if a reformer like Taiwan's Chiang Ching-kuo makes the Chinese Communist Party a democratically competitive party and slowly loosens the restrictions like Deng Xiaoping did for the economy. It may take a few decades from the leadership to come to the realization that this is the only path forward that would see China growing. Though Xi Jinping may still be in power in 3 decades, so I doubt this will happen.
If China doesn't have democratic reform it's a just a matter of time (a few short decades away) until Taiwan formalizes its status as being an independent and sovereign country for more than 150 years (since 1912) and it will formally rename itself the Republic of Taiwan.
Time is ticking for China, so the next few decades are dangerous. I recommend listening to Jim Fanell's "Decade of Concern" arguments. The easiest way to do this is from episode #45 of the China Unscripted podcast, which is available on TH-cam under the titled "#45 How Big a Threat is China's Navy? | Captain Jim Fanell".
@@Asianometry "reasonably competant" despite all its flaws this is something most critics of china fail to notice, the generation that lives on in the west is mostly oblivious to the chaos and trauma the non western scoieties endured, so everything and anything that these non westerm states pursue is seen as evil/fascistic(in all honesty they are) but they fail to understand why, the injection of political correctness into public discourse has diluted the wests capacity for critical thinking primarily in the political sphere.
The political discourse is kinda analogous to something in between UK-EU relations and Québec-Ottawa.
@@Asianometry I wonder why isn't the US criticizing Singapore as it's just as authoritarian over there(some cybersites are actually blocked in the city-state).
I lived in Malaysia for over thirty years. This video highlights some "difficulties" towards the non-Malay Muslims (those who are minorities and not ethnic Malays with Muslim religion) caused by the Malay Muslims. This video is still a sanitized condensed version that is only a tip of the iceberg. Malaysia is having a bad stagnating economy and growing unemployment even before covid-19 lockdown. Racism is widespread. Culturally many places were erased and left to rot to be Islamlized and Malaynized. Today's Malaysian Asian Indian youth are no different than those in the 1990s and 1980s. Today's Malaysian Chinese youth are more and more bad quality compare to those born in the 1980s. Worrisome was the Malaysian Chinese youth who speaks Chinese languages but growing culturally blind and both economically and financially inept. A disturbing trend of freely mingle side with Malays to bully the Malaysian Chinese who wanted to learn, work, befriend, and being Malaysian Chinese. Those bad Chinese I mention can speak Chinese and raised in a Chinese environment are no Chinese at all and the sort you can say are bullies who make life difficult for others. How am I the racist here?
sons of the soil hahahahah 🤣 i think prince of the land is much more suitable
Call Malay, not natives only make Malay people and politicians have excuses to bully bigotry Chinese due Malay has many ethnic among themselves how to know which group earliest and lot Chinese there just as early as Malay too.
Both Malays and the Orang Asli are considered the indigenous population. There were already many kingdoms in the malay peninsula even before the first chinese communities( Langkasuka, chih tu, pan pan, gangga negara, kota gelanggi, old pahang, old kedah, bujang valley, )
@@akalaqru4996 tons oversea Chinese had already settled long before so call Malay natives but over time they become local Malay natives too, just like Vietnamese, Kinh group but scientists trace their origins mostly from southern Chinese with big beautiful wonderful round eyes like me and tan skin tone. So you can say Vietnamese are Kinh group, just majority though, other ethnics bern in Vietnam just as long too, or you can say they're Chinese Vietnamese too. Same with Malay, some but not most, duh. Overtime they've evolved more brown skin due tropica sun and bigger noses to breath hot loose oxygen air. Same with American native Indians, for whited they are American Indians but for my Asians then America natives are Asian Americans, duh.
Cant even understand whats a BUMIPUTRA and yet complaining.
Its not only org asli? Practically all of the Sarawak/Sabah tribes, Thai decendence, Javanese, Sunadanese, Bataks , Those Mamaks ..these are Bumi dude.
Malays are not native.
They immigrated to Malaysia 700 years ago.
Orang asli are the true natives.
60 years of 'affirmative action' and the bumi putra still need help.
The word 'redistribute' is an euphemism for steal.
You're right about the Orang Asli being the true natives. However, the Malays are "thought to have migrated to the Malay archipelago in a long series of migrations between 2500 and 1500 BC."
Lol if u say orang asli is the native and malay from Indonesia. Then ppl in Indonesia came from where. China and India also have native live in jungle so chnese and India. Came from. Where? Hahaha lol malay already live here and have civilisation for thousand years. Fine if u don't like the fact malay originate in Malaysia then we can call malay originate in malay archipelago of south east Asia not 🧔🏿👲😂.
The problem is that the Malays are NOT the natives of Malaysia, the earliest Malays migrants came from Sumatera (Indonesia) in the 15th century, the first wave of Chinese immigrants (Peranakan Chinese, considered as 'Chinese" by the government) arrived after Cheng He of the Ming dynasty (from the Treasure Fleet fame) settled in the Malay Peninsula (West Malaysia) in the 16th century although most of the Chinese population migrated to Malaysia during British times. The natives of Malaysia are called Orang Asli, literally means native people in Malay, is still an impoverished class in Malaysia.
The kicker is that second generation Muslim Indonesians are classified as bumiputra, one such even held a ministerial position.
History of Malacca
"Malacca was founded by Parameswara, also known as Iskandar Shah. He found his way to Malacca around 1402 where he found a good port-it was accessible in all seasons and on the strategically located narrowest point of the Malacca Straits."
The first Chinese immigrants to settle in the Malay Archipelago arrived from Guangdong and Fujian provinces in the 10th century C.E. They were joined by much larger numbers of the Chinese in the 15th through 17th centuries, following on the heels of the Ming emperor's reopening of Chinese-Malay trade relations in the 15th century."
The Malacca Sultanate wasn’t the first Malay Kingdom. Never heard about the Malay Kingdom of Langkasuka (Kedah)? The kingdom is believed to have been founded in the 2nd century.
@@sambaltempe5970 "Langkasuka was an ancient Malay (Hindu-Buddhist) kingdom located in the Malay Peninsula.[1] The name is Sanskrit in origin; it is thought to be a combination of langkha for "resplendent land" -sukkha for "bliss". The kingdom, along with Old Kedah, is probably among the earliest kingdoms founded on the Malay Peninsula. The exact location of the kingdom is of some debate, but archaeological discoveries at Yarang near Pattani, THAILAND suggest a probable location."
balik Thailand loh
@@brainwashington1332 lol. it’s just an example to prove that Malay didn’t necessarily originated from Sumatra. we are really the indigenous people of Malay Peninsula. btw you can also read about the the Kingdoms of Gangga Negara & Old Kedah.
@@sambaltempe5970 Old Kedah used to be a domain of Siam too, go back to Thailand. unless u are Orang Asli, u are not native to the Malay Peninsular. if Malay peninsula belongs to the malays, then South China Sea belongs to China
@@brainwashington1332 you messed up dude. relax. i’m just trying to prove to you that malays are really the indigenous people of malay peninsula. well, whether you can accept it or not, but that’s the fact.
Other than the wealth being distributed too elites rather than the ethnic Malay population, I believe the policies are fair. I'm sorry but you can't move to a country (colony or not) and not adopt the culture or religion. In Islam worshiping and creating idols is a major sin and takes you out of the fold. Many Chinese and Indians hold this idol worship in their beliefs and as such causes major problems with integration. If you don't like it just move out of the country they already snatched singapore.
move to a country??? they have been living there for few generations now. also i bet if a western nation did this it would be called racist
Chinese DAP can leave 🇲🇾
👲🧔🏿 the one who came to our land here so they must follow the rules la. If not they can migrate back to china and india
malays dominate "malaysia" (lit. land of malays)
It’s Malaysia
Read the name
It’s thier land
I suppose Israel not racist Islam