- close identification of race or ethnicity with economic function and status, a legacy of the racially organised division of labour created by British colonial rule.
- while the person presiding over the Parliament is called Mr Speaker, he cannot speak. The British Adviser did not merely advisr and the Malay Rulers did not rule. They both just did the opposite. And in the Commonwealth, the wealth is not common.
- by the early twentieth century an ethnic social stratification had emerged in the Straits Settlements and the Federate States, with the white officers at the top, followed by Eurasians, the Ceylon Tamils, the Indians, and the Chinese. at the bottom of this ladder were the Malays. That was the price of not getting a good education(!).
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