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May 26, 2009 • 3:18 pm 0
Pan-Melayu Unity
People confuse race, ethnicity, and nationality. Race is based on shared genetics, lineage, physical description and geography. Ethnicity is based on culture and perceived similarities. Nationality is based on political status….Hokulani78
Filed under: History Reveals , Astronesia
May 19, 2009 • 12:50 am 0
The Truth about Hang Kasturi
So I watched Silat Lagenda, P Ramlee’s Hang Tuah, Puteri Gunung Ledang and all sort of film that involves Hang Tuah. Not enough with that, I went to Perpustakaan Negara did some research about this. Rupa-rupanya, all the Hang Tuah’s films in Malaysia are based on the Hikayat Hang Tuah, which a book that basically add in some of the mystical thing in the background story so it is look more attractive.
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May 4, 2009 • 10:52 pm 2
Henry the Black: Magellan’s Malay Slave
Enrique de Malacca, cunoscut si sub numele de Henry the Black (Henry cel Negru), a fost servitorul personal si in acelasi timp traducatorul lui Ferdinand Magellan. Magellan l-a cumparat pe cel care avea sa fie botezat mai tarziu Enrique in anul 1511, de la un targ de sclavi din Malacca. Enrique avea sa devina insotitorul stapanului sau, in numeroasele expeditii pe care le intreprindea. Henry the Black ar putea fi considerat primul circumnavigator din istorie a fost autorul primei circumnavigatii culturale, calatorind prin lume, pana la gasirea unui popor vorbitor al aceleiasi limbi ca si el. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: History Reveals , Enrique de Malacca, Lapu Lapu, Panglima Awang
April 25, 2009 • 7:47 pm 1
Why Malays Eat with Their Hand?
The Chersonese with the Gilding Off is usually described as a companion volume to Isabella Bird’s better-known The Golden Chersonese , published in 1883 and also available as an Oxford Paperback. Starkly written and with a wry sense of humour, it is vastly different to Isabella Bird’s rather idyllic account. Seeing the Malayan country `under totally different circumstances’, Innes’s describes her lonely and uncomfortable life as the wife of a minor government official, and her reluctant participation in the pettiness of colonial society, and in the life of the kampung around her.
In her book, she briefly described her story meeting a Malay aristocrat, Tengku Kudin.
Filed under: Customs & Etiquette, History Reveals , Tengku Kudin
April 7, 2009 • 10:38 pm 0
Buried Without a Tombstone
The Utusan strike was a turning point in the development of Malay and Malayan journalism as well as a turning point for press freedom in the country because there was never a struggle for press freedom until 1961. This of course was not given proper publicity and people did not know much about it because it was confined to a small circle of newspaper people who knew about it but dared not write or could not write about it. And even among the Malay community, only a small portion of people understood the reason.” Read the rest of this entry »
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February 25, 2009 • 10:11 pm 2
The Malay, ‘king of slaves’
At the other extreme was the Malay, described as the ‘king of slaves’. More quickly than any other group, the Malays learnt the skills of almost all the trades practiced at the Cape. When freed, many prospered commercially. Against this, however, they were regarded as temperamental and dangerous. ‘Running amok’ was something to be feared.
Filed under: History Reveals, Malay Descendants , cape malay
February 11, 2009 • 12:52 pm 0
No less of a Malay
“Sebenarnya aku bukanlah pemimpin wanita Parti Komunis Malaya atau seorang tokoh wanita yang terkemuka. Aku hanya seorang pejuang wanita yang berjuang melawan British untuk kemerdekaan tanahair dan untuk emansipasi (kebebasan) wanita.”- Memoir of Shamsiah Fakeh
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February 7, 2009 • 11:23 pm 0
A New Guide to Trace Malay Local Wisdom
Again, the scholarly Malay world will own an invaluable guide to trace its cultural heritages, in this case old Malay manuscripts, through the most recently publication of Catalogue of Malay and Minangkabau Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands (July 2007, 512 pp.) by Edwin P. Wieringa.
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