'What do Malaysians look like?'


Despite so many people around the world who insist on retreating into supposedly pure ethnic groups, people are mixing more and more, due to migration, studying and working abroad as well as in the arts like January Low and Orkestra Tradisional Malaysia (above). — OTM

A Malay, a Chindian and a Eurasian took a blind American woman to dinner.

If that sounds like the start of a joke, I’m sorry to say it’s not. Nor is it a particularly sad story. But it is instructive.

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Marina Mahathir , Musings column

   

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