rising/reddit-malaysia-rising-2023-12-30.jsonl

{"title": "Are those people calling for donation from National Cancer Society, National Kidney Foundation, etc by the roadsides and malls legit?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u64x2/are_those_people_calling_for_donation_from/", "num_comment": 4, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["If you want to donate, check out their website and donate directly to them."], ["Legit. But they are middle people, not direct. Which means, they take a certain percentage from what you donate and give the rest to what organization hired them. That percentage is the problem. Some years back it became an issue. Those companies takes high percentage of the donation.\nYou give rm10, maybe rm1-2 actually goes to the organization."], ["Those MLM agents must be making a killing or the public is still this naive if they're more of them! Don't ever layan if they ask for your card details, they can easily take more than what's promised. If you have a busy life, you won't realise they've been siphoning you for years, going by some Google reviews.\nIf you call them to cancel, they'll make life difficult or manipulate you into a 'discount donation' to get you to stay on. Some even rage or beg to guilt trip you (\"Why did you agree to the plan then?\") The only way is to quietly change your card although it's a hassle.\nWe're not advising against donating to charity. Just not through middlemen. But if you really want to check how legit a charity is, look for the most recent financial statement or a proper customer careline instead of one general email (both of which I did not find with NCSM). Some NGO's donations might not even be tax claimable, despite what the agents say."], ["Anyone can rent a spot at the mall.\nAnyone can create a website too. Check for the registered company and license, and their representatives/ physical location too.\nFor bank-in, should go into a registered company account etc."]]}
{"title": "Want to climb mount Santubong but heard it\u2019s too dangerous alone, even for someone who\u2019s okay with intermediate to harder. Any packages?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u6y1p/want_to_climb_mount_santubong_but_heard_its_too/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": [], "comments": []}
{"title": "Penang mum hopes to be reunited with missing toddler", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u4vcf/penang_mum_hopes_to_be_reunited_with_missing/", "num_comment": 4, "flairlabel": ["Mildly interesting"], "comments": [["Wtf...with these Indian men kidnapping their own children(at least those made it to news). We have few trash convert Indians Muslims who made highlight the last decade. I mean I am all for men chivalry caring for the child and all, but this ain't it. Hopefully this one don't have religion involved, one less complication and legal issue.", "Yes that's true. Hopefully, religion doesn't become just a tool for this sort of behavior. Marriage seems to be a game for men like this."]]}
{"title": "A Malaysian Tesla Model 3 customer receives mismatched door panels", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u38k1/a_malaysian_tesla_model_3_customer_receives/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": ["Science/ Technology"], "comments": [["This is the Tesla experience."]]}
{"title": "Malay Racism by local Chinese", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u4epl/malay_racism_by_local_chinese/", "num_comment": 190, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["Leave an honest review"], ["You were unlucky to have met such a driver. I hope you take action and report/leave a review to him. It's not Okay to take racism straight to the face like this.", "It's good if he/she does reveal the name or even better if there is a video because I don't want this to be a rage bait post.", "While I get what you\u2019re trying to say, that last sentence kind of reads like \u201conly racism straight to the face is not okay, but racism behind people\u2019s backs is okay\u201d, or maybe it\u2019s just me. I just think it could be worded better like racism is just unacceptable.", "You and I both know what I meant la, don't nitpick on gammer or sentence like that la comeon"], ["As a former grab driver, many hired drivers didn\u2019t land in that profession due to their intellectual prowess."], ["There are racist in every race."], ["I'm non but I can imagine being in your place and already felt disgusted by the driver's behaviour. Also felt a secondary embarassment for your friend."], ["It's just a fact that there are hella lot of racist people in the country, regardless of their race. It's the inevitable outcome of using race as the determining paradigm for policies, politics etc from the formation of the country until now. People are shaped by their lived realities -- doesn't excuse their behavior but does at least help us understand.", "Not an excuse .. he\u2019s a racist.", "Agree. He is racist. All those blab aboutMalay supremacy, just come to Penang and hear those Penang Lang talk about Chinese Supremacy there in Penang. Same all bullshit. It apply to both.", "Chinese have privileged special right and special pass malay are currently enjoying?", "We do, it\u2019s called economic power. But the affirmative action policy is corrupt at its core as well, instead of helping the bumiputera it only serves to benefit the politicians", "Does it provided free by the government? Also any chinese that isn't poor = stole land and resources from malay forefather since british era for these kind of group , its their coded response when you try to say chinese economics in here , its not a plus and don't use it.", "Chinese help chinese, that means we had rich colonial era chinese hand down their knowledge and resources to other chinese. Notice how chinese SRJKC are generally bigger and better funded? Some employers are also quite racist, or just rather speak Chinese than speak other languages, so you see Chinese SME mostly filled with other Chinese. Education and resources trickle down from the colonial forefathers. Plus we work hard and we have a culture of prioritizing material wealth (Ang Pau, 8888, Fatt Fatt, Gong Xi Ni, Toto Magnum 4D, Genting).\nAll these combined have put Chinese in another tier economically compared to the rest. It will take time to equalise. But bumi special rights is making you racist, and because you are racist, you make them hate us and label us \u201cracist Chinese\u201d.\nThis is why I say bumi special rights only benefit politicians. Because it makes people like you racist against Malays, and it enforces the dislike that Malays have against the Chinese. It was just a bandage solution to prevent more killings.", "Yeah for the top 1% big crocs maybe ,and nobody is stopping them learning chinese , it has nothing to do with the average joe of lower or middle income regular people , but instead of hating them big crocs they decide to label chinese= rich and hate all the chinese instead\nDon't forget this is a place where a \"melayu malas\" gets you in jail while cina babi pendatang penjajah penipu gets your a fuck tons of likes.", "Nobody is stopping the employer from learning Malay either, they just chose not to.\nI agree there are many poor Chinese as well, and this has affected them just because of their race.\nDo you not realise that bumi rights have made both Chinese and Malay racist against each other? How can you not realise that? How can you blame them but not the 1% big crocs that implemented this policy in the first place? Why are you so hypocritical and not realise you are doing the same thing and label malay = racists and hate all of the Malays?", "You seems to agree with the policy in the first place by saying chinese also have the privileged rights by dominating the economics imply we are equal and suddenly claim i hate all malay , i don't, but i can't blame people for being racist when one privileged side can get away scot free with being racist and other side goes to jail", "Yes. It is call over sympathy. Malay are too soft hearted. These are the specialities that have been benefits for some time.", "That sounds like a privilage both parties enjoy", "https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Boi7KNsUTT4aEfqCYkWgxeM5LKExgsVz7J2Fpuvfe3EHSu89nEueenW7TsSwwSKol&id=100002268614992&mibextid=Nif5oz\nNothing looks too softhearted for me , i guess you're the gosok parang type , pls do it asap.", "Not the gosok parang type. The constitution is a social contract, breach it off means an act of war. It is better every one keep quit and just act according to the social contract. One less thing to worry about and let PMX do well in his Primeship", "The constitution is a social contract, breach it off means an act of war.\nThe constitution can be ammended, it's not something set in stone", "Something that we can Agree. We should change it. A nation needs to have only one strong identity. A one country rules by one government and one ruler.", "You literally said its over sympathy for letting minorities have what they having rn , that means you think they shouldn't have any rights at all while they already a second class citizen. PMX who? The guy who literally just have the K-world pass?\nIm voting for pas next elections.", "Somehow it's all crickets among the toons who voted him in. He's only gonna get worse, this is just the cinematic trailer\nPas can easily win if they just stop saying idiotic things. These guys are practically handing it over to pn with their mismanagement but I guess it's a race to the bottom in Malaysia all day everyday since 2008", "Pas literally gain more vote by saying stupid thing , sembelih all kafir , x suruh cina potong lanjiao even humiliated sultan yet it becomes the reason wins the biggest, we are on a high speed lane of right with no return and anyone that doesn't think so is delusional.", "Far right and far left are both bad. How can be stable if the government itself wobble from left to right and vice versa.", "Owh. A PAS supporter. No wonder", "Just to bring everything down faster.", "I do think that is not an excuse to justify the racism displayed by the drivers. It is more like a sad reality on why this happens and how is this still happening. It is not going away any time soon, all race will come to face this problem.", "How exactly does fighting fire with fire solve the problem?"], ["Should leave a comment or review on his fb account."], ["That driver might be one of the monyets here lol", "True, if there was a bingo card for typical r/malaysia redditor comments, he would have gotten bingo twice"], ["I mean, the part about puasa month being the best month to go out without large crowds or traffic is true \ud83d\ude02"], ["A lot of Chinese people are just as racist. Difference is just that they're not backed by the government so they had to do it in a more clandestine manner", "The fact that indians would prefer to be friends with malays more (even with all the insitutionalized racism) over the \"not racist people\" , tells you all you need to know about how racists these people are.\nMalays are racists to other races because of power. Give them that and they'd shut up.\nThese \"not racist people\" are racists purely because they hate you\nMalays say shit like \"they want to steal our country\" or \"kafir cabar islam\"\nThey say shit like \"backwards 10anak pedos\" or \"apunene will kidnap you\"", "Exactly. Everyone should really learn mandarin and Hokkien and go to Penang for a weekend to listen in on what they say behind your back when they assume you don't understand. They're just unnecessarily mean and vicious even if they don't know you from Adam. Just walk around queensbay mall, get into a lift, or browse some mid tier shops (~300-400 dollar shoes/clothes).", "Imagine there is some form of racism backed by the government /s"], ["You can find them here too, lurking always ready to jump in and unleash their closeted racism on certain topics and comments :29091::29091::29091::29091:", "I kena attacked many times already by them.", "Agreed, sometimes this subreddit Chinese (I am Chinese myself) is too aggressive in seeking out racism and kiasu, ends up being racist themselves", "Yeah perhaps because the ground was never equal to begin with , and the privileged keep asking for more ground", "Nothing worse than having to skirt around issues that would label one a race traitor. There are those who are happy to coexist together and forge ahead, and those who don't."], ["I had this Indian lady who mistakenly thought my worker had given her the wrong change. It was the correct one.\nBut the interaction is somewhere along \u201cInilah orang Islam\u2026\u201d right to her face."], ["Poor guy probably doesn't have any Malay friends.", "By whose fault if not his own. A grown man can think."], ["The amount of excuses people make here for being racist just because he is Chinese, this sub is just full of hypocrite Chinese racists", "I grew up online (Gen Z) as a Malay and I've always been vocal IRL and online about abolishing bumi rights, affirmative actions, and fighting against racism etc.\nBut now that we have Ktads from LYN pouring in and other average Malaysians trolling this sub I realized that it's just an issue not worth caring about because I see how they are. I've been attacked many times simply because of my username. Abu Nawas is not even my name, he was a philosopher.\nBe pro-equality, still have Chinese people being racist at you.\nBe pro-bumi, same shit.\nWhy bother?\nEDIT: I talk about online experiences because it's something we all can relate to but I myself have also experienced a lot of real-life racism from Chinese people.", "Unfortunately it will take some time for newer generations to change the status quo. I feel sad for my racist friends and family. The bumi policy isn\u2019t helping assimilation at all, and PAS/DAP politicians also keep making the racial divide even larger to serve their own interests. Reading the comments in this sub has brought to light the true situation on the ground now about racism in Malaysia, it doesn\u2019t seem like we are truly that united, everything just on the surface for show only. We actually have a lot of work to do.", "agree lah. I used to preach about abolishing bumi rights and shit but I realize whats the point anymore? will abolishing bumi rights make all malaysian learn malay? Will ablolishing bumi rights make cultural assimilation a thing?\njust like you said why bother anymore.", "pls la. special bumi rights should be abolished because it helps the malays - yeah that's right, how's that for an out of the box take.\ndon't do it because you want to do virtue signalling", "Again, as I said, I don't bother about bumi rights anymore. I never benefitted from it anyway. People crack it up to be something bigger, while in reality, it's not life-changing.", "Chinese are not just racist in Malaysia, unfortunately.", "So is this generalisation? How all muslim are terrorist sounds to you?", "hilarious", "They even have a lot of in-fighting. North vs. South. Taiwan vs. Mainland. Diasporas vs. Mainlanders. Etc.", "Yeah they also have Sunni vs Shia, Indonesia vs Malaysia", "If you're trying to bait me, I am a Malay who's not a Muslim and I am part-Indonesian.\nIn my opinion, most people are awful regardless of creed.", "Well at least have some nuance then instead of generalising that Chinese as a people have a lot of infighting \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f you want unity? Don\u2019t la throw fire on hate \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\nBtw bro, how are you a non muslim Malay in Malaysia? I\u2019m curious, did you go through official channels or just senyap senyap don\u2019t practice? Any backlash? I asking coz my friend married into muslim", "What does unity look like? The USSR? Pol Pot's regime? Marxism? It doesn't exist and it never will. Me making a comment about Chinese in-fighting doesn't mean that I don't think the same about Africans or Arabs or even Europeans.\nI am non-Muslim because I decided to be non-Muslim. Who cares what my documents say? If I leave Malaysia, it will stop being relevant anyway.\nYes there is backlash, by baboons who never think for themselves.", "Unity looks like Sabah", "You mean poverty.", "Bro just said Kota Kinabalu = poverty \ud83d\udc80"], ["This is probably where the sentence \"kamu balik china lah\" would be justified cuz since he hate malays so much and thinks all chinese are oh so good then pindah to china lor\nIm saying this as a chinese ok,we all are born here so the most basic mindset is to just idk not hate each other because of race ok? :26558::26558:"], ["Somwthing off topic, if you are to post this in bolehland, i wonder what will be the replies like.", "The exact same replies as the comments in this post i would bet, just with different race."], ["In this community only Malay racist other race no racist /s", "Versa to you bolehlanders , privileged and government backed majority vs suppressed discrimination minorities was being asked to give up more rights"], ["Bruh... that's just fucked up. I'm sorry you had to go through that, and I seriously, honestly wish I was in that car with you so I could just lay it back on the dude. Nobody should be allowed to be that rude and racist and be allowed to walk away unscathed."], ["Give him negative 5 stars if you could. Elaborate the situation briefly in the reviews. Fuck racism."], ["Racism is everywhere if you see it.\nIt\u2019s a pity that he chose to live his life around it.\nI can\u2019t blame him and I won\u2019t condone this kind of behaviour, we live in a country that has institutions and open racism to the non and what you experienced is daily life of the non more or less.\nI hope we can one day break from this vicious cycle of hatred."], ["Unfortunately, racism still happened in Malaysia and it's not only by specific races."], ["Is he a boomer generation?\nIMO, quite common among this generation."], ["So many comments here are just ridiculous.\nFirst things first, racism is never justified. It is pure discrimination, plain and simple. What that driver did, is sadly, a rather common occurrence and I am always disgusted by it. You could argue he was \"joking\" but based on OP, it has clearly went past any benefit of the doubt for it to be a \"joke\".\nHalf the comments here trying to justify the racism with things that mainly boil down to. -paraphrasing A) There's institutionalised racism in the other way. B) Nons have no special right\nIt makes the anger / negative attitude UNDERSTANDABLE, but not JUSTIFIED. Just like how we can understand a fear of small spaces (claustrophobia), but often not justifiable.\nHalf of the comments here stating things like 'now you understand how the nons feel.' Not to discredit your personal experience, I'm sure you have your reason to say that, and it might be your own personal experience, but saying that is akin to saying 'now you know how I feel' to a covid patient after recovering from covid. How is saying that helping anyone or beneficial? You didn't choose to be the target of racism, nor did OP.\nThe other thing I noted is that quite a few Malay commented how they used to be vocal about abolishing bumi rights and so on, but have stopped because they don't see a point in doing so anymore because it's a dammed if you do, damned if you don't situation. This just proves 2 wrongs don't make a right. The civil rights movement with MLK would not gain any success if it did not gain the support of the president of that time, a white man supporting a black man. Our common enemy are the racist. The supremacist. Not based on what we put under 'kaum' when we fill in our own personal information. How are we going to move forward to true equality when we keep showing each other hostility?", "If you asked me, it's better to stop reading these kind of post and just enjoy your weekend if op him/herself can't provide any proof to what they post because it is possible he/she is just rage baiting people."], ["Sounds like your typical racist Chinese unkerr"], ["REVEAL THE NAME", "Yup, need some proof. If not it\u2019s just flaming and look at the commenters going wild.", "Yupe and people are typing alot of colourful comments when there's no proof from op side.", "And you will just believe this post by an anonymous poster? Without any evidence of such incident?", "Pls reread what I type because I want proof and not another rage bait post.", "Sry replied to the wrong comment", "Apology accepted"], ["TIL there are racist people in Malaysia /s"], ["ni mesti jenis suka hon x penyabar"], ["Report that guy, just a shameful act of racism. On Chinese social media and press, Malay on Chinese is so frequently reported and the comments are like \"oh we are bullied for being a unique small minority\",but I actually also felt that Chinese on Malay is also frequent in the form of stereotypes, just that Chinese people is known to keep their feelings to themselves and being clever about it. Seriously, if we were to achieve actual unity, this has to change."], ["Alhamdulillah, I saw the comments here and I will keep them in mind the next time I vote.", "Vote based on proposed policies not some salty comments on a reddit thread lol", "Thats not gonna be good for ph with all those new tax coming in and impending subsidy cut.", "New luxury tax and targeted subsidy if I'm not mistaken, bad for rich tycoons but good for common folks no?", "All kena, rich t20 luxury tax, increased income tax,\nm40 below rm500 online purchasing tax, increased electricity tariff, no fuel subsidy\nB40=Win with increased br1m, fuel subsidy.\n2024 gonna be a smashing year.. no wonder Chinese says 4 is suwey.", "You got me at the last part \ud83d\ude02 take my upvote", "b40 definitely kena also.. business owned by M40 and T20.. if these people are hit, the goods that B40 buy is gonna get hit too.", "Who cares who you vote, go ahead hahahahahahah", "So you just gonna believe some random reddit post."], ["finally understand how minority feel in this country?", "yala cina cannot be rasis only malay only", "More like privileged goverment backed majority prohibited a supressed discriminated minorities to talk back while they can freely do so without consequences", "prohibited a supressed discriminated minorities to talk back? what minorities cannot talk balk ke? tak paham le", "Blh , tapi masuk lokap", "Calling minority balik tongsan and K word no issue. The cambodian merchant saying M word (lazy) police involved KEK."], ["Welcome to the experience of every other non Malay in Malaysia."], ["come to penang lah, they even call you huana (barbaric people) in normal daily conversation and nothing racist about that to them.", "Huana is literally how hokkien people call malay and there is no degratory in it.", "Teochew people also, afaik there's no alternative word because that's the only word my grandma was taught growing up.", "'then the K word is how melakans call indians , theres no degratory meaning in it '\nSee how that sounds ? Huana is still an ethnic slur with deeper meaning in other places such as the philipines or taiwan", "Yeah but we are not taiwan or philipines , the other is not goverment backed , we don't purposely say it to degrate people , simply because there is no other word in hokkien to call malay people or widely know yet , you can launch a cancel culture on them , but cancelling is a west liberal thing you might want to avoid it", "What about calling them Malay or Melayu instead though?\nI'll be like me calling my dad Keling because I grew up with the word and for some insane reason, never hearing the word Tamil in my life.", "There no such word exist in hokkien yet , and educating language outside of mandarin in sjkc is illegal the teacher will cane you for even speaking one word , hokkien education is non existence how do you expect people to change, launch a cancel culture then , but then there will be people purposely use it for degratory because yall just put a degratory meaning in it by trying to cancel it."], ["your mistake was you did not shut him down when he first started talking shit. you should have told him that you are not paying him to talk, but drive. you allowed him to continue and he took that as you agreeing with what he said and so he pushed his limits and went on further. as the employer, you should have done that. you are accountable for the experience that your foreign friends are having."], ["Hey OP, wait until you learned how badly racist some Chinese are against Indian people."], ["This is why bumi rights are created", "Don't fight racism with more racism"], ["ill say ,just go back to main land", "Well, maybe u should go back to Indonesia?"], ["Funny how Malay keep saying don\u2019t paint them with one brush then proceed to paint all Chinese with one brush lol", "theh literally said that this Grab driver was the first time they had experienced such racism, they had lots of Chinese and Indian friends who were perfectly alright"], ["now you know nons feeling when malay keep \"malay here malay there\"\nracist country deserve racist treatment", "We found the private driver y'all!", "People like you hurt non-racist Malays. Wow.", "So u just paint everyone with one brush ? In your mind all malays are racist hence all Malay deserves to be treated that way ?", "Say whatever u want, but thats the reality of nons living in malaysia.\nThe 1 that konon2 non racist never speak out because they fear people call them barua cina or kafir.\nYou can say whatever to justify your belief but it wont change how real life works"], ["Racism is institutionalised, what can you do? Article 153 already proves inequality between people being okay in this country.\nYou lot like to remind us we are pendatangs and we need to go back where we come from, you leech from our hardwork, you don't appreciate us, and you slowly encroach and erode our rights slowly. You want us to not be racist?\nI feel bad for you but I don't feel surprised tbh, I can also name situations where I get abused too. But I don't make a big post here whining about something we see every 5 years.\nIn conclusion, you can't change something that's already acceptable here."], ["Hohoho don\u2019t worry. Institutionalised racism still in place. Ketuanan still rules."], ["Majority of Malays have been groomed and brainwashed from young to be racists towards the Chinese. U r just experiencing the product of the Malaysian Govt since Mahathir- the ultimate racist fuxk. 3 headed snake who betrays anyone, regardless of religion and race.\nIt is unfortunate u experienced such comments from the Chinese driver but u need to realize he has been discriminated by the Malaysian Govt and Malay society in general his entire life . As a Malay, most will feel supreme over other races coz u know th government is always on ur side. Malays even tell the Chinese they should be grateful the Malays allowed them to stay in the country .. wtf. The Chinese are treated far worse than the blacks in the US. The Chinese enterprises play a big part of Malaysia's economy but are treated as 3rd class citizens after the mamaks.", "You seriously comparing how black Americans being treated in the US to how non bumi being treated in malaysia ?\nWhat ?!!! How ?!!!!\nAs per you mention, Chinese owned business is the core of Malaysian economy. How can a group of people that have these kind of success still thinks that thy are being treated worst that blacks American in America where they have been systematically put in poverty and at one point slaves by the American whites ?\nThis is why I hate people like you ! Yes here there\u2019s racism in Malaysia. no one can deny it but for you to belittle the hardship of black Americans it\u2019s craaazyyyy to me !!! Nuts !", "Haha this guy is the supreme ultra malay tuan tanah, no use arguing with him", "Yes, non bumis are openly discriminated in Malaysia and that is an ugly fact. From Education to Businessses. It's not a country based on meritocracy. Listen, I know of non bumis with Straight As and denied entries to do medicine in local Unis but for Bumis, they could get in with lesser grades. Government scholarships given to Bumis with lesser grades than Non Bumis ( straight As) despite the non bumis parents being hawkers... wtf.\nI dont think I said anything to belittle the hardship of black Americans. Black Americans do have a louder voice in the US than the Chinese in Malaysia. Blacks face hardships due to their own work and home culture and attitudes. So u r jumping to wrong conclusions.\nI don't have data to prove that Chinese owned companies are the core of the Malaysian economy today considering many Bumi enterprises are also very large but the Chinese entrepreneurs in 70s to 90s did help build the economy. Unfortunately the Malaysian Govt does not want to give credit to them.they are constantly told to thank the Malays?? Pfft...for what? Only in Malaysia do u have Malay dominated politicians openly threatening another race. Do u think the white Americans can say \"black ppl, don't test our patience with u??\" . Even South Africa does not behave like Malaysia..pls go get ur facts right.\nMalaysia is a sad state with a divisive Govt for the past 30 yrs. A truly none progressive mindset, esp the politics and Govt.\nMalaysia would be a far more progressive country if the government stopped it's racial politics. A country so rich in natural resources but poorly developed local talent due to racial politics and discrimination is the cause of Malaysia's poor economy and quality of life. The problem is u have this small elite group of Malays who wants control of the Malays to win elections. I don't have the data but only a small elite group of Malays are reaping the rewards but more than 60pct of them are struggling financially. This is just general observation.\nIt will take generations to reverse this sick racism in Malaysia.", "As a Malay who is pro abolishing bumi rights, I don\u2019t feel welcome in this fight for equality in malaysia if on the other side are people like you who painted every Malays with the same brush.\nThe simple fact is, you need Malays on your team to win the equality fight in malaysia . This will never happen when we see what kind of sick opinion the people that want to fight for \u201cequality\u201d have on malays in general.\nTepuk dada, Tanya selera.. you wanna fight against racism, then don\u2019t be racist first \u2026\nAnd for your simpleton mind let me tell you this, Black Americans may have a louder voice now, but most of them are still in poverty. Look at facts, get off the internet. Compare the household income of Chinese Malaysian and black Americans in the context of each country\u2019s demographic la.", "I agree with u. All races should work together and push the entire nation forward. It's frustrating for non bumis to be constantly told they don't belong to Malaysia when all they know is about Malaysia. Racism is toxic and will never go away but the government should not openly use it as a tool to win votes and constantly poison the minds of Bumis that Chinese are a threat to the Bumis existence. The Chinese are not interested in taking any privileges from the Malays. They just want to earn a decent living for their families. The Govt should stop sowing hate into the minds of Malays that Chinese are a threat..it just builds this distrust amongst races. I agree that not all Malays are racist but many view non bumis as trying to take things away from them.\nIt's just disheartening to see a country with so much resources and talent to be in this state.", "If I'm malay why would I ever want it to change. I'm a privalaged race. My local politicians and religious leaders remind me everyday that I'm the superior race and everyone else is beneath me. I get free handouts in terms of welfare and bumi discounts. If I get an income of only 3k rm I am very contented. I daily look at religious and propaganda tiktok and FB telling me all the bad things other races are trying to sabotage us and they will be our downfall. While at the same time coming into major liberal cities looking for work under Chinese bosses and do gigs treating it as a full time job. Also under the management of other races. Then have to also rent from nons as well but quietly curse them inside of being a non halal abode.\nI do not ever see this nation progressing ever in the next coming century even. We are only a step or crisis away from regressing into a total taliban like Islamic state. Don't have to look far. ACEH is a good example. If tht ever comes to happen. Malaysia is gone. Malay conservatives won. All nons would desert Malaysia in droves and any hope of Malaysia ever developing into a 1st world state is gone while other aswan countries overtake us and our main import then will be security guards and maids.", "\"The Chinese are treated far worse than the blacks in the US\"\n\"As a Malay, most will feel supreme over other races..\"\nI know you are racist, but perhaps try to get out of your bubble sometimes and interact with people?\nReading your comment makes me shiver, to think there are still hardcore racist like this as Malaysians.", "Bro, in what way are Chinese Malaysians treated far worse than blacks in the US?", "Go learn history bro", "Bro, u have Malay politicians openly tell the Chinese to go back to China. Which part of Malaysia do u live in? Do u have the US government tell the blacks to go back to Africa because America.is for whites? Do u hear the American government threaten the Blacks that they were not welcome in the US altho they were born there? Duh. .I know my facts and lived thru racism there..so don't tell me bs bro. I m just stating the truth in Malaysia for the Chinese..if u can't handle it,.so be it.\nRacism in any country is bad but the sad truth is no one hides in Malaysia.", "The Chinese are treated far worse than the blacks in the US\nExcuse you? Call us woke for knowing of their slavery and in 2023, blacks still get SHOT, LYNCHED for existing. It feels good to be in control by putting another race down, doesn't it? We're not the ones being randomly stopped by the street for 'spot checks' or followed around in stores as if we're stealing.\nNo one is ignoring your first paragraph, but you really sound like an All Lives Matter apologist. \"I hate everyone equally!\"", "That's coz blacks have a higher risk of killing others due to their historical crime track record..it's unfortunate but black youths have given themselves that reputation. The police see them as high risk so they get shot. I disagree with the way the police behave but the US is actually a pretty messed up ctry now. That is the sad fact. A bunch of hypocrites and corrupted Democrats and Reps. China will overtake the US."], ["Man this guy was disturbingly comfortable with his racism.... Makes me wonder how much worse he is behind closed doors.\nFwiw, OP, this is an unfortunate reality for a lot of people where some assholes are just very comfortable with being a racist piece of shit to your face. But from experience, they very quickly back down or shut their mouths the minute you call them out on it. Most of us are just too polite in these situations, so its likely they haven't experienced anyone actually telling them off for their racist behaviour."], ["As a Malay, I wonder what Chinese who regularly engage with the foreigners or expats tell them about Malays and Malaysia in general. I studied in Europe and I was once asked by my Eurpoean classmate whether it's true in Malaysia everyone is prohibited from drinking becayse Islam dictates us. I was like, \"everyone? you sure?\". Sigh. FYI, we have Malaysian Chinese in the class too, so I kinda sus thats where they got the wrong info from. Again, not all Chinese. Chinese are like Kelantanese, well organised and unionised people, but their unity kinda annoy people around them."], ["Hey, maybe you'd meet the uncle again during the next r/Malaysia meet up session. Now got common topic."], ["Lol cina kena racism everyday never see we bark also. U go mamak as a cina see u kena or not..for us it is business as usual duh"], ["Deep down we are all racist."], ["based uncle", "Bruhh \ud83d\udc80"], ["This is what happens when you live in your own bubble and not befriending people from other backgrounds. Ignorance breeds hate.\nMost Malaysian aspire the same. To have an honest living and practice our own things.", "Did you not read that OP has\u2026foreign friends and local non-malay friends?", "I am referring to the racist uncle, iant it obvious?"], ["Maybe you are not a racist, but most of the people around you are."], ["i love malays", "", "i only got malay friends tho, maybe they can find me a cupboard to live in... like anne frank", "Not in this economy bruh ain't feeding another mouth.", "i love how this post is some chinese dude being racist to malay, then u malay dudes are doing the same where the love bro? one malaysia", "I am an equal opportunity hater. I am Malay, I hate Malays, and I hate other races also.", "Hello, this comment was removed due to being in breach of Rule 1: Bigotry and hate speech. Because of our history Malaysia talks about certain issues such as race very differently from Western countries. We acknowledge this on the subreddit but do draw some boundaries to keep discussions healthy.\nDefinition of bigotry: The act of treating the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.\nBasic principle: If it's an attribute of a person that is out of their control and extremely hard or impossible to change, it's not nice to dump on them or their group just for that attribute.\nSome categories this applies to: Race, religion, sexuality, disability, national origin.\nSlurs: Use of slurs on the above categories is not encouraged on this subreddit and may be subject to warnings and bans.\nExample: Religion: It's okay to discuss and criticise aspects of the religion itself, but it's not okay to attack people because they are members of that religion (e.g.: Islam but not Muslims).\nPlease treat this as an official warning - further such activity may result in a ban, thanks."], ["feels great on the receiving end huh? I'm sorry that you had to experience racism, the driver's behavior is inexcusable, but not out of the ordinary as a Malaysian, so... shake it off, I guess? like so many nons and minorities in the country", "Thanks, OP feels better now. /s"], ["Generally the older generations can be very racist, they're mostly the product of their time and don't think being racist is a big deal. For Gen Z onwards there's absolutely no reason to be racist piece of shit. These people mostly just wanna be edgy or going all out to be an asshole because it's cool. Otherwise, they are people who grew up in an echo chamber and never go out their comfort zone when socialize. And I'm speaking of people of all skin colors."], ["The Europeans or Westerners have poor geographical knowledge. They make a huge assumption that includes racism as well to gauge whether Malaysia and Indonesia are Islamic lower economic countries within the Asia region and whether Singapore belongs to China.\nAlthough it is dying down, racism simply messed up within Malaysia and Singapore. Most Chinese who felt that Malays had a privilege and advantage in Malaysia came to Singapore decades ago. Whatever racial trauma brewed in them, has caused them to be racist.\nThere are two types of Chinese, the ones who are verbally reactive to Racism by advertising their racism like the one the OP faced. The second, which is common in Singapore, is covert racism. They set the rules to make Singapore a pro-Chinese state, so even if they advertise racism, they make it legally right. Forcing minorities to be suppressed and making them feel that are a victim due to their name and skin colour nothing to Chinese privilege.\nNot all Chinese are racist but most are oblivious to the privilege system they have in Singapore. It's a vicious circle we will see within Malaysia and Singapore. So in the end the Malays are oblivious in Malaysia which leads the Chinese to be racist and the the Chinese are oblivious in Singapore which leads the Malays to be racist."], ["You ain't a racist if you are Chinese.\nEdit: calm down guys not all Chinese ok. Only some."], ["Use your special privilege to ask him back tongsan, chinese are minority am i right."], ["Dude. We are all racist to some degree.\nJust unlucky you met uncle who could keep quiet..\nDid you tell him directly you're uncomfortable and for him to just be quiet?"], ["Literally nothing he said was racist against Malay, you are too sensitive bro and need a thicker skin"], ["Two sides of the same coin unfortunately"], ["We\u2019re Malaysians. We\u2019re racist to each other."], ["1st time?"], ["He is a redditor."], ["Racism is not unique to any race. It is more prevalent among the uneducated. So a boomer driver? Not surprised."], ["Thx to our great government that been playing racism cards n promote \"bumi rights\" which rose unfairness n equally questions in the sunlights.\nPlus they purposely brainwashing people to be racism , so we Jeep fighting between ourselves while the politicians sitting on top enjoying our ripped off taxes money n corruption.\nBe awake people, be clarity of mind, knowing what causes all these n walk yourself away from this."], ["Blame it on the individual, his up bringing has led him to this path as fate we would have called it. Just let it be. Racism a worldwide problem, since the dawn of men."]]}
{"title": "The view of Kuala Lumpur in April 1992.", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18t8uxa/the_view_of_kuala_lumpur_in_april_1992/", "num_comment": 85, "flairlabel": ["History"], "comments": [["As someone who lived through the 90s, times were just different back then\u2026\nMcDonald\u2019s for like 3-5 bucks\nWay more draconian authority because of Dr M (as he was known before Tun M)\nKids played outside more\nOverall feeling of positivity. Malaysia was growing at a faster rate and modernising (also thanks to Dr M in many ways)\nThe worst haze in our history happened during this time\nNo security at the airport. Could just go right to the gate at Subang Airport (before KLIA)\nPeople didn\u2019t eat out as much in these days, a lot of home food\nNo social media or phones- simpler times.\nIf any other 90s kids thinks of any add on more! I miss this time a lot.\nTraffic was WAY worst back then\nGovt services were slower and more inefficient during this time compared to now", "traffic was also due to Tun M.\nblame him for the improper city planning that has led KL to the car centric shithole it is today.", "KL has to be carcentric. If not who will want to buy Geetons/Perutduas?", "mfw (Mahathir's face when) cronies profit by kelentong the rakyat", "I mean, isnt that why he made Putrajaya? To avoid fucking up KL more? I remember that in his memoirs btw", "he made putrajaya, even car-centric...", "The traffic was worse?! Holy cow", "Yup. Think Bangkok/ Jakarta levels of jam.\nHappy cake day btw", "I remember being stuck in a stand still jam at cheras. Good times", "Apart from the draconian law and haze, the rest of the points apply to almost every other city globally", "People also judge others less back then, not like the society today where people just find it impossible to mind their own business", "No bangla and rohingya or pinoy. Back then the only issue we had was with indonesian pati.", "Was hoping for more fun stuff about the 90s rather than a xenophobic answer", "And theres no words like xenophobic or easily offended people that can get offended on behalf of other people.", "I am not sure it is the \"offended\" part that people take away from your comment.\nIt is mostly your comment on foreign immigrants that irks people. There is a time and place for these comments. Not everything needs to be seen in terms of us vs them, in this case our underpaid exploitative labour.\nJust like how politicians see everything through racial lens - which we know is flawed and divisive - your focus need not be on foreign immigrants on this topic.", "Well, like it or not, we do have a problem with pati immigrants now. And as I pointed out, in the past, it was only indonesian pati, but now we have other pati from different countries.\nYou want to sugar coat it however you want, but this is a fact. Only racist people will see this through a racial lens. While my point is on pati.", "Yup. And no snowflakes who always starting culture wars like you.", "Im gen x. And we say what is, and how it is. If you say you lived through the 90s and act like this, you actually bring shame to our gen.", "Ah, so you're just a racist fossil. Got it, just know that your way of mindset would be soon irrelevant.", "I dont think it will go away anytime soon. As i see, most of the sjw like you are mostly hypocrites.", "Ok, fossil.", "Calling names wont change facts you know. Go out more.", "I bring shame to a generation because of one comment I made on Reddit. Ok.", "Low class mentality like yours is why shit happened in the first place la. You lived 4 decades already but still no self-awareness. Malu sial", "What the hell are you talking about? I actually feel more malu reading this kind of reply.", "I don't expect a xenophobic 40 y/o to understand. \"Can't teach old dogs new tricks\" as they say.", "Oh. Ok. Good for you.", "Please leave the rest of us gen x out of this", "Didn't we have a full blown riot at the Vietnamese war refugee camp at Sg Besi?", "If im not mistaken, they were kept in camps. The infamous pulau bidong was 1 of them. They were not moving around freely. And they were sent back in late 80s.\nSo, I wouldnt put them as the same problem as the pati we have now.", "Jacky Chan shot part of his movie above the Dataran, that was my first thought.\nCommonwealth Games and \"Standing in the Eyes\" on heavy rotation. Was just an ok song to me but the heavy rotation embedded it into my memory.\nLRT just started becoming a thing.\nBefore Astro, there were only 3-4 channels (remember Metrovision?) and MegaTV.\nGila-Gila, Ujang, Galaxy, Lat\n\"Now That's What I Call Music\" cassette series\nKids played outside more\nNot sure if I agree with this, I still see many parents bring their kids to the parks."], ["Me (non-existent) whispering to my father in 1992: buy a property in Bangsar NOW", "Dad please buy land surround Bukit Bintang Girl School", "reminds me of mom sayin her friend's friend had land in sepang which was then hulu banat (so priced dirt cheap/ orang tak pandang pun). then KLIA happened & their land got sold for millions.", "then KLIA happened & their land got sold for millions.\nDamn they got lucky \ud83c\udf40\ud83e\udd11", "itu pasal. some peeps fate just flipped 180\u00b0 \ud83d\udcaf"], ["Music was definitely better and yes religion was personal and Malaysia was riding high on economic growth. Everyone felt like they had a piece of the pie.\nLess overhead highway to destroy the view", "Music was definitely better\nEvery generation will say their music is better. Apparently there is even sturdy that shows we become less open to new music as we grow older.\nhttps://www.iflscience.com/we-stop-discovering-new-music-at-a-certain-age-heres-why-48187", "I've read this before and I don't entirely agree with it. Also the way it's written seems to suggest if you're not \"open\" then you're just a \"narrow old sod\", without considering the nuances. I could say the reverse about kids suddenly discovering Eminem and saying it was horrible old music, for example.\nSome reasons why \"music openness\" peaked in the teens is due to peer influence and media exposure. Most by mid 20s should have formed their personalities and tastes, and are simply more selective in what they want to listen to. I still go on a random search for new music, just not accepting everything shoved to me on heavy rotation.\nSure, there definitely are people like one of my friends who seem to only listen to Gun n Roses and hates anything with a hint of electronic, but this research isn't definitive. Good and shit music appears across all decades.", "Ok boomer"], ["Man we really did better than most 3rd world countries judging by photos of 80s and 90s", "No wars for sure, decent in terms of economy too, compared to the rest of the world like former Yugoslavia"], ["Compared to today it was ahead of its time. Just couldnt keep on track with the growth", "Mahathir is sure one double-edged sword to our country, isn't he?", "He definitely aided in the country becoming more islamic and conservative even when it was naturally headed to be more liberal like singapore. The Klang valley at least.\nBut then again who knows what would have happened with another Government. Malaysia is still a winner compared to other countries in southeast asia.", "Not great, not terrible. At least our country are relatively stable but not ahead enough to move up to the developed status."], ["The view of Kuala Lumpur in April 1992.\nI was just 8 years old.\nstill thinking of flying cars will exist in 2020, 3 years after Dr. Mahathir announced his Vision 2020 plan.\nKLCC was still on plan paper by Cesar Pelli in Dr. Mahathir's room (groundbreaking starts March 1993).\nNot many Banglas, Myanmarese around KL. Indonesian migrant worker isn't that many in 1992.\nProton Saga Iswara will be launched in August 1992.\nKL Tower was just started its construction (started on October 1991).\nSailor Moon anime just premiered a month ago in Japan (March 1992).\nMalaysia will win the Thomas Cup a month after (May 1992).\n...what else happened in 1992 Malaysia that I missed?", "Wasn\u2019t there some sort of huge fireworks factory in Sungai Buloh that caught fire around that part of the 90s?\nBack then Subang Parade was cool (especially toys r us).\nWas the North South Highway even completely built yet?\nAnd McD burgers were served in styrofoam boxes.", "When Subang Parade opened, it was the longest mall in Asia", "The Bright Sparklers factory in Sungai Buluh burst out in May 1991.\nPLUS Highway was completed in 1994. So in 1992, some highways still being build.\nYess...I remembered the McD burgers was served in styrofoam boxes!\n...and up until now, I never been to Subang Parade \ud83e\udd72\ud83e\udd72\ud83e\udd72\ud83e\udd72\ud83e\udd72", "Yeah around the early 90s the big crime/ tragedy news that really stood out in my Memory was the Bright Sparklers tragedy in \u201891 (thanks for digging that up), there was the highland towers tragedy in \u201893 and the Mona Fandey crime case and the victim who was chopped up into 18 pieces or something like that.\nOh yeah and the school had a government milk program to help kids from a less privileged background\u2026. IIRC\nYeah and before the PLUS was finished I remember car trips to Singapore had to go through trunk roads in Johor where everyone played a game of chicken when overtaking."], ["1992 already jerebu:26554:", "Something never changes"], ["There was a time when we could see the mountains in the background."], ["I guess that was the time when the wild bas mini wilayah roamed the streets of KL."], ["Menara Maybank standing tall as the highest building in Kuala Lumpur. Nowadays it's just another office building.", "Crazy just how many skyscrapers have been built since then that the Maybank building doesn't even look stand out anymore."], ["April 1992, I was 4 months old \ud83d\ude02", "a true 90s baby \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udc4c"], ["watching these photos makes me realized that smartphone cameras nowadays had gone so far that i cant believe this picture came from a camera before looking at the date."], ["Also 2 months later Police Story 3 is released in the theaters. The whole 3rd act of the movie takes place in KL."], ["Quick observations as there are many familiar areas.\nPic 1: From Petaling Street vicinity overlooking Maybank Tower @ Jalan Tun Perak and Bukit Nanas (now dominated by KL Tower but at the time, most associate Bukit Nanas with St John Institution and the convent girl's school).\nPic 2: On the left, is the old KL Railway station and the KTMB offices across from it. On the bottom right should be the national masjid, with the KL Jabatan Agama in the back. Interestingly, the green area in the back is where KL Sentral is now. This is facing south and wow how green KL was (and probably still is in some places).\nPic 3: Should be familiar to all which is Dataran Merdeka and the Sultan Abdul Samad building which was active as a courthouse in those days. This view would be north-facing and dominated by offices nowadays.\nPic 4: Looks to be facing south east with the Stadium Negara (indoor) and Stadium Merdeka in the back, with Petaling Street/Chinatown area in the foreground. Interestingly, a look at the Chinatown area and you can see how sad the buildings looked. Happy that there's been some restoration works over the years. Today, this view would include Merdeka/PNB 118, right behind Stadium Negara.\nOverall, love the photos and love KL."], ["this can be on /r/PastAndPresentPics if we put up some current view :)"], ["We had M'sian English series, Kopitiam."], ["You know in the present 2023 is quite a lot for KL and klang valley, all the new elevated highways completed(DASH, SUKE, DUKE), MRT3, TRX and merdeka 118 completed exterior. I could come just few years ago and it will look quite different."], ["And then 97 happened and the country started adopting the 2 steps forward 1 step backward mantra.\nLawl."], ["Life was a lot more simpler. We played sports in school. Went cycling around the taman by ourselves. Met up at friends house. PLayed video games, music etc. Instead of learning about life on youtube... we experienced it. We could still go out, walk to town. Came back home by ourselves. At least where I lived in Penang.\nWe had to buy music. And what we listened to meant so much more to us. It was as much about who we were than just about whats popular. Grunge scene blew up. Kid's were wearing Nirvana t-shirts and wanted to start bands. Leading up to also local grunge scene later on.\nStreet Fighter 2 was the biggest ting in the world. Everyone wanted to play that in the arcades. On the PC side of things people were playing Ultima and the first grand daddy of the FPS Wolfenstein 3D was released, basically creating a whole new genre."], ["Dope!"], ["Someone should have taken the same pics now from the same spot and compare."], ["I\u2019m less than a month old lol"], ["the roads are nicer, less double parker", "Mini buses helped solve some of the public transport issues. People didn't really need cars as mini buses went to most areas within Klang Valley.\nNot to mention how expensive cars were."]]}
{"title": "Hannah Yeoh\u2019s ministry report card for 2023", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18tnl3y/hannah_yeohs_ministry_report_card_for_2023/", "num_comment": 11, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["Still a better report card than \"lawat kenduri\".\nActually.. anything is better than that."], ["Oi u/Marathonjohns. Nah. Kasi lu :26554:", "A mans gotta eat!"], ["Why does number 6 count as pencapaian?\nAnd skrin besar for sport event has been done many times before no?\nThe rest is good", "Mostly for jawatan2 belia i think and allocated budget for the deserved group. Like KJ was head of belia umno and he was 40 yo. 40 yo head with 20 yo head too much difference. But if you\u2019re 30, will have the same fire and desire as 20 yo. This will make a good team to move the belia group.\nAlso most importantly, less people to claim e-belia rm200."], ["and just like that, ministry report card are viewed as admirable, act of transparency by the ministers:26554:"], ["none of those related to me, why even bother?", "It's almost as if the government is supposed to help the whole population and not just you"], ["On socmed u get ppl calling her eh amoi, leng lui or just cina. That's just disrespectful."], ["ministry report card jer.\nMana MP report card? Cries as Segambut district citizen."]]}
{"title": "How to get out of hardselling?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18ts3fc/how_to_get_out_of_hardselling/", "num_comment": 29, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["Ask your family member to go with you. Let them speak for you and just say NO", "Or a friend. This is likely the best short term solution. Long term, you best talk to a psychologist/coach. Small investment to not get shafted again."], ["Young lady you just have to say no. Do it a coupler of times and one day you won't feel guilty at all saying that."], ["\u201dI can\u2019t afford to continue these payments\u201d\nIt is that easy", "that was the FIRST thing i tried.. and guess what they decreased the price to \u201cstudent price\u201d so i can \u201cafford it\u201d\nbelieve me\u2026 i\u2019ve tried that way.", "Then keep saying, I still cannot afford it. Until they shut up. At some point in life, you need to learn to be shameless and keep saying no to things you do not want."], ["Smack them with some honest google maps reviews"], ["smile n say no, keep repeating"], ["Easiest way is to tell them you don\u2019t have money. Ask them if 15RM a session is okay cause that\u2019s all you can afford.", "Hahaha, uno reverse low ball"], ["They don't like charge your card once a month or anything, right? Only when you go for the session? Then block the number to save yourself the stress.", "no no, only during sessions. i dont have a credit card lol i dont wanna get into debt when i barely make money"], ["The earlier you learn to say no, the better, because this won't be the only time this happens to you in your life.\nOne thing to remember dealing with hardsellers:\nNEVER EXPLAIN WHY\nExplaining just gives them an opportunity in to sway you.\nJust say \"No thank you.\" If they ask why just repeat \"No thank you\" but offer no explanation until they get the message. Or if you're like me and ran out of fucks to give, I just say \"No thank you. I'm done and do not call me again\" and hang up without giving them a chance to reply.\nSociety raises a lot of women to be people pleasers, and it's horrible because salespeople use that to take advantage of them. Trust me when I say the earlier you learn to recognize this and stop being a people pleaser/doormat the better.", "\u2018not explaining why\u2019 is actually great advice!!! being short and concise\u2026 i will try it!! (after i finish this damn scalp care package like if i ady paid for it might as well go\u2026 unless? lol)"], ["Let me guess, OneDoc? My gf got into something similar and I ended up scolding her kaw kaw. Get someone close to you to help you."], ["Dont say yes. Dont pay."], ["That sounds like an expensive clinic. You might wanna give Dr. Ranjit Singh of Subang Jaya a try."], ["Out of topic, but how can a shy socially awkward person works in marketing? How does that work", "im also a theater kid so during interviews i just act outgoing and super upbeat so when i get the job, i can regress back into a hermit crab\nmy marketing job is more backend than dealing with clients and influencers sooooo yea"], ["Had experienced with weight management package.\nThey kept forcing me to signup more and more package. They even coldcalling even after 6 months no longer with them.\nDo this:\nIf you schedule a session with them, don't turn up. Don't pickup their call.\nThey will keep forcing u, either you ignore them or block them."], ["Here I thought only men can suffer from hair loss. Being honest about your financial situattion usually does the work for me with hardselling. You probably are too empathetic to reject them because you too are in similar line of work. But remember that just like you, they are used to get rejected. Be selfish, you go there to help yourself, not them. Pretending to talk on the phone usually works too, if they are too persistent."], ["If the payment isn\u2019t automatic or a subscription, just always say u are busy when they schedule an appointment."], ["let me go with you next time"], ["Just repeat \"No, thank you I'm not interested\". It's tiring but they have to make sales for commissions, it's okay to say no.\nTake this as an opportunity to practice \"thick face\" and say no."], ["Just say \"NO\". Actually I realize many don't realize we can say no without giving reason. Keep repeat no on every sentence the sales says."], ["Get yourself in a huge debt to motivate yourself to say no to hard sellers. Or just change clinic"], ["I set myself a rule that if they are purposely targeting your insecurities, I will not allow myself to be spoken to in that manner.\nI will not allow my money to go to anyone that feels it\u2019s appropriate to maliciously comment about my skin/weight/hair/etc. Once you understand that the salesperson are the problem, not your hair/scalp or anything else, it will be easier to say no!"], ["Just learn to say NO.\nYour world opens up after..."]]}
{"title": "Merdeka 118's Light Show", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18tmug4/merdeka_118s_light_show/", "num_comment": 3, "flairlabel": ["Mildly interesting"], "comments": [["Source:\nVisualrepublik\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/C1UUKaXSWRQ/"], ["Dull and boring."], ["haiya..."]]}
{"title": "Tun M\u2019s latest rambling after Daim being investigated", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18tdg66/tun_ms_latest_rambling_after_daim_being/", "num_comment": 101, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["That's right Tun. You and your family should be investigated too.", "", "If he legalised illegal money wouldn\u2019t that money be legal?", "I wish that the post 2003 pm were smarter than him. My problem with Najib was the way he acting damn dumb when caught in 1mdb fiasco. Even authority & rakyats couldn't blame Tun on Carrian scandal.", "If Atok and his family get investigated, all corrupt Bersatu, PKR and Umno politicians are gonna get arrested. Lmao"], ["Why is Dr. M working against Daim now? Or is his post some 4D sarcasm?", "Classic Tun M sarcasm", "If the message is reversed, he think any Tun should be above the law? And choose to ignore it at their whims? That's no different than those thugs Datos we had on the streets.", "I am just glad he lives long enough to see his own downfall. Losing to a clown in Langkawi and his closest crony being investigated for corruption", "He's just typical him in being sarcastic, kinda like in a \"come and get me if you can\" sort of way. Think it's because its always his character to be like this, and also partly arrogance cause he has never been caught before this", "Everyone except me, myself, the greatest descendant of Iskandar Kutty from Tamil Nadu is free from all criticism and any wrongdoings, I am always right.", "*narcissism", "That is only the old dynasty king can do...sarcasm & join pas", "<image>\nstopthechocolatehate"], ["8. I'm not sour Mukhriz is being sidelined.", "Even Najib and Hishamudin was able to stand on their own two feet even after daddy is gone. Mukhriz is simply too weak to be a politician.", "ye, that guy ain't got charisma. he's just simply meek.", "Perhaps he doesn't want to be one ?\nHe could be happy just being an entrepreneur, but got pushed into politics because daddy said so.\nThe above is just an opinion, and an unverified one. I do not know Mukhriz personally, of course.", "You're not wrong by the way.", "Still make him a weak one. A daddy boy in that case"], ["Ah, sarcasm from the Old Man. Funny though, you'd think he might have learnt a lesson after 20+ years of effing over the country. But noooo... He continues, except that his racism is increasingly obvious now."], ["Recalcitrant oldman forgot to add /s\nBeing his sarcastic self", "Nah adding the sarcasm label makes it less funny"], ["Says the guy who started all the political witch hunt in the country", "I'm still laughing at the \"Suspicion should be enough\" because if that was true, HE is the most suspicious one in the whole country! lol."], ["Man, no wonder this guy work so hard to stop DSAI to become PM", "But he had caused a lot of damage to our country. DSAI is having a hard time cleaning it up without getting accused to be pro-Malay."], ["Mahathir is a run too. He is tun dr Mahathir. He definitely needs to be investigated since while he himself doesn't wave supercars around his kids do. You don't magically get that rich leading companies"], ["Looks like he forgot he is the biggest Tuns of them all. Kerala Tua Mudah lupa..."], ["Please lah. He was the bloody fool who appointed the biggest crook as his successor. As always, he's sharp as a bowling ball and smooth as sandpaper.", "\"Accusations due to politics\" lol.\nDo you really believe Anwar sodomized anyone? Tun M is the biggest example of a political frame job creator and he still dares to make such a comment. It's like he's being two faced."], ["\"Suspicion should be enough\" lol.\nTun M, my man, YOU are the most suspicious one in the whole lot! lol\nNice own goal."], ["\"Don't google BMF scandal\" - CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, USA.", "You missed the area.\nLangley, USA.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-CG5w4YwOI"], ["He's gonna regret posting this tweet lmaoo SPRM are already investigating him and his family's wealth lol"], ["Salty that his buddy and most likely proxy kena, resorted to a bitter sarcastic post"], ["Lol I thought you were gonna post his tweet from today about Jews controlling America. Old man has too much time on his hands."], ["Such a wonderful stand up comedian he is. No way Harith Iskandar comes close to him."], ["Sarcasm. Plain and simple."], ["Whoosh"], ["Someone\u2019s tail got stepped upon."], ["Sigh, retirement does not suit him eh"], ["When will he die?"], ["LOL\nAzmin, you reading this? :26561:\n<image>"], ["His time is about to come up"], ["Karma's a bitch. I hope Tun M lives long enough to see his generation's wealth goes up in flames"], ["Investigate him then :)"], [": is it just me or does it seem really sarcastic?"], ["Sarcastic or not, he definitely should be the first to be investigated considering he held public office and was the PM for so long.\nAs the longest serving PM, not only must he be clean, he must also appear to be clean. Considering his kids are billionaires, he owe Malaysians an explanation.\nAnd to use one of his mind games, \"why be afraid if he is innocent?\".\nNo need to investigate all Tuns. Just start with this one."], ["The worst person you know just made a great point.", "What was the great point that Tun made?\nLets not forget this is the same tactic Najib used. He said no evidence of wrongdoing. Remember the lady that recorded him and Azrul Kanda and Ketua Setiausaha Negara agreeing to modify the audit to hide their trail. Najib nearly put her in jail. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-officer-secretly-recorded-meeting-where-najib-tampered-with-audit-court-hears\nIf not for all the brave people that brought out the evidence, the whole 1MDB thing would have been covered up and the country would just be even worse.\nIt is no surprise that LHDN chases food truck people more than they dare to chase the Daims and Mahathirs of Malaysia. They know they'll never be able to get to the evidence because there's so many tricks and murders these guys do to get rid of evidence.", "Corruption bad"], ["Why is he still calling himself a Doctor? Doctor of what? Stealing", "He is a medical doctor", "His licence was revoked 30 years ago. He is a piece of shit", "Until you can prove otherwise, it's a non-controversial fact. I mean I don't like the guy, but this kind of sentiments/statements is exactly why everyone cannot believe factual evidence anymore.", "what's your source? I can't find any story about his medical license being revoked", "In addition to the qualification, you need a license. The license has usually has requirements on minimum hours of practice and study. After he reached a degree of political success, I doubt he has continued to keep it current / updated.", "His practicing certificate has probably not been renewed for decades and is not legally allowed to practice medicine, but he is still a certified doctor unless his university revoked his medical degree.", "False. You can\u2019t call yourself a Dr like this. He needs to remove the Dr title with immediate effect", "False. I am actually a doctor and wondering what else you put in your ass to pull out next.\nalso, at the risk of sounding like a mahathir fanboy (which i am not), All of these doctorates qualifies him to be called a doctor. Just like how half our menteri got honorary dr title from some random university", "You are a doctor of what? Hentai?", "Don't be a lunatic. You can fight against corruption and cronyism without going outright crazy.\nHe graduated, the title stays with him even if he is not practicing. What does NOT stay with him is a valid licence.", "He has deceived us for long enough!", "Yes and you did not have to add yourself to the list of people that lie to us. It does you no good, you'll just be another junior Mahathir and Malaysia has enough of those kind of people already.\nFight them, don't become them.", "Wrong"], ["Normalise barring seniles from politics"], ["I\u2019m counting down the days, if you get what I mean."], ["These apes in the comments dissing the most influential and productive leader this nation has ever seen. We are the only nation that doesnt appreciate their own successful leader. Other countries appreciate him more than us. What loser we are.\nName me one other person that has benefitted the nation for all races other than Tun. Ill wait.", "These apes in the comments dissing the most influential and productive leader this nation has ever seen. We are the only nation that doesnt appreciate their own successful leader. Other countries appreciate him more than us. What loser we are.\nName me one other person that has benefitted the nation for all races other than Tun. Ill wait.\nlol. Many Malaysians not only drank all the koolaid Madey made, but even swallowed the bottle itself.\nhoot hoot or whatever ape sounds you think us losers make.\nNext time, maybe check your facts. I'll give a simple thing which you can try to think about.\nSingapore started off worse off than Malaysia. Their PM cried on TV when Singapore got kicked out of Malaysia because he thought all of his country and all the people (of all races) would end up worse off. But then Razak Madey gangsters overthrew Tunku and took power in Malaysia and look where we are today.\nMalaysia had more oil than Norway and started off with around similar GDP in 1970. But look how Norway has become a fully civilized high quality of life country while Malaysia.... well, has people who \"Ill wait\".... lol\nAll the shit that Mahathir did is fake bullshit.\nHere's top 3.\nEconomic Growth\nIt is easy to get fake growth when you take the nation's oil money and stuff it your son's sapura pockets and build 2 big penises to show off to other Middle Eastern nations who love comparing dick size buildings. Do we need to talk about the shitty motorcar company that ended up being sold to China. What about the shitty airline? How many billions of bailout the rest of us paid for these shitty companies.\nLegal system\nCompletely destroyed. Ops lalang.\nVision 2020\nOh look at that. What happened? Kebutaan rakyat.\nBut it is okay. Just claim it is DAP that blocked the country from prospering or blame Chinese Jewish Indian communists who were working for Gorgon Soros. The 'ill wait' community will accept that as sacred words of truth. lolz", "Just to be clear, you meant to say it is shameful for people in this country to dislike Tun M?", "You can dislike anyone you wan bud. The reasons on why you are disliking him makes no sense. You would only like dislike him if you lived in the a world past his time, where you dont see the difference in Malaysia from before he was in power vs after he stepped down.\nEveryone has faults but to discredit all he done , which ways and beyond more than any of the other failures after him by some assumptions that you make is beyond me. Comparatively every other pm after him is completely incompetant and most of them didnt even get into office legitamately.", "Damn bro, assume much eh? When I studied Dr M, he was still the first PM, and he is the most interesting and powerful person. I don\u2019t mean to be rude but seriously go figure why he is still hated. Also, if we are gonna play the \u201cwhat-if\u201d game, I guarantee you Tun M didn\u2019t build the whole modern Malaysia on his own. Dr Lim Chong Eu probably did more than him but it is not like we are gonna read it in the textbooks.\nChill bro, you are not gonna change minds here.\nHave a happy new year \u270c\ufe0f", "What does he was still the first PM mean exactly? Also the hate on him or why he is hated is irrelevant. He has done more for the country than any other PM before or after him and yall shitting on him cause he\u2019s done some bad drops in a stream of good?\nWhy not criticize the other comparatively useless PM after him like you do with him?\nYoure brining up a chief minister that has helped Penang alot. Youre saying the changes he brought to Penang was way more than the leader that brought Malaysia to the forefront all those years ago?\nNot here to change minds. Yall not appreciating him are kinda lost and biased already. Just trying to understand the logic that goes into it so maybe It could change my mind about Tun M. So far its always about him being racist towards non-Malays. When on the Malay side he\u2019s being criticised from being more aligned to Chinese interest. Which one is it do you think?", "Erm still assume much bro. You okay? \ud83d\ude05 Maybe go read up stuff more before you comment further.", "These kind of comments are so useless. Youre assuminh Im assumine when I can do the exact same to you which Im not. Again tell me one other PM that has done more. Ill wait. Pay so much for education, and we\u2019re answering questions with , \u2018you find out yourself bro\u2019 lel", "Are you ok? I love watching people talking to themselves to be honest. It is a fetish I try my best to keep in control. But please, keep replying \ud83d\ude02", "You are replying so how is it a frtish about me replying to no one when you keep replying. Is this a quazi way of trying to insult me? Lol. You could insult me by answering the question definitively"], ["Why the fuk i read his tweet with dr. mahathir accent? :26554:"], ["Haha. He feel the heat now"], ["Luckily is from Earth. i thought Mars :26554:"], ["I am surprised there is still soooooo much stale, hot air in him."], ["Sarcasm. The hypocrisy of this man to even pen this post. We all know he is worried hence the rants. Daim is his proxy. Anwar knows this. And he knows the only way to Mahathir\u2019s heart is through his wallet."], ["He must've come up with this in Langkawi. I just saw him and his entourage driving through Pantai Tengah yesterday. He's probably pissed of what's become of this place too."], ["You first"], ["I agree and Mahatits should be the first to be investigated"], ["I'd say pot kettle etc, but this is like the original cauldron"], ["He knows he and his friends are untouchables. It's more like touch us if you DARE"], ["Even though I don't agree with him, this is very well written."], ["lol the original black kettle trying to drown with every other kettle .."], ["TDM and Daim have a love-hate relationship throughout knowing each other."], ["\"Just STFU old man. Your time is over\"\nHis entire business n involvement with maybank should have in depth investigation for the past 50 years."], ["His entire business n involvement with maybank should have in depth investigation for the past 50 years."], ["Isn't he a Tun himself?"], ["Next will be Tun M"], ["Wah a post by him without mentioning cina, nons and DAP"]]}
{"title": "Genuine Question: Why restaurants like these suddenly appear all over Malaysia?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u5fo3/genuine_question_why_restaurants_like_these/", "num_comment": 28, "flairlabel": ["Food"], "comments": [["Mostly established by Chinese nationals from China; competition in China is tough; some may not have a chance to create or earn a respectable living in China, so they relocate to Malaysia for Business.\nThere will be some loopholes as well, as some of them wanted to diversify their investment and money, and as we all know, China is quite rigorous about money flowing out, leaving them no alternative but to establish businesses outside of China.", "Also monopoly of targeted Chinese market share."], ["Because of the influence of China.\nIf you go Pasar Malam, many stalls are selling China street food as well.", "China street food example? I go to a Chinese pasar malam. The new thing I saw recently was some Taiwanese pinwheel pancake. Was nice but definitely foreign influence."], ["Some are shell companies/restaurants for Chinese nationals to get their family out of china.\nSetup f&b business, say you need someone to manage the business, send your family member over to manage the business.\nRinse and repeat. If they make a business out of it, great. If not, at least can get out of the country and take some money out as well", "Source: trust me bro", "It's not even a wild guess. Why do you think Chinese nationals are spreading their wealth to Australia,Canada and Singapore nowadays?", "Because rich Chinese ppl like buying nice fancy new things. Same like how rich Indian/ Middle Eastern/ insert random nationality do the same", "China restrict their people from going out of the country?", "More like they restrict capital outflow.", "China restrict their people\u2019s money from going out of the country"], ["Personal experience: So I have been traveling around southern and middle part of Semenanjung and I see these restaurants in a lot of places. The food is decent but overpriced (since I can eat a way better meal with more meat/seafood at other restaurant with the same amount of money).\nI am wondering whether they all belong to the same tauke \ud83e\udd14", "It's basically expensive chap fan.", "It's basically expensive chap fan.\nTechnically Truth, In my opinion is more cater for family size \"Chap Fan\" rather than individual.", "It\u2019s really expensive but for China nationals this is more to their preferred taste over Malaysian Chinese food. Although I\u2019m Chinese but I don\u2019t really like a lot of China\u2019s cuisine.", "Interesting"], ["F&B business is one of the riskiest things you can invest in so people tend to jump onto one fad to another to follow the crowd. From bubble tea shops, to fried stuff and finally to this"], ["The type of Restaurants where the owner are most probably from mainland China? Since the sanction from USA and big businesses all around the world are in the process of decoupling (pulling out their factories and stores from China), China's economy is now in shambles. It matters a lot when you have to feed a whole country of billions of people that suddenly out of jobs.\nLong story short, they are looking business elsewhere from mainland to survive. Since Malaysia has close ties with China, and it has existing Chinese living in it, it would be an ideal market. Same with Thailand and Vietnam.", "no bruh US is not sanctioning China like this."], ["Cause it\u2019s been proven time to time where mainland china food suits majority of chinese malaysian palettes. ie: any mala hotpot, sour fish, smelly snail noodle. By the growth of these restaurants and human traffic patronising it, I think it gives confident to f&b owner/investor, just copy paste the shit from china and it will be a hit."], ["Mamak can't always rule the night, the chinese gotta keep up"], ["I have a theory that One condition for China to invest in Malaysia we also have accept them to open business here also so that Chinese China don't be ackward when come here when looking for food"], ["Whenever I see this, it reminds me of a video about how chinese chef is able to recreate savoury pork bone soup from a whole bunch of artificial seasoning, without a single piece of bone or meat, and this give me the same vibe. Like how does one serve hot chinese or any asian meal, in fast food style?"], ["It's marketing. Package it differently, charge more. I make ownself cheaper."], ["Same like boba shops and yogurt drinks shops, it\u2019s a trend"], ["Just like how the boba tea was the crazed a few years ago and many stores keep popping up.\nThis time it's these type lo, in mainland China, they're very easy to dapao, pack and eat during rush hours. Convenient food."], ["Obviously businessman coming from china n Taiwan, they have to expand their business"], ["china Australia also like this lol"]]}
{"title": "Gerbang Alaf Restaurants has requested BDS Malaysia to retract damaging statements, post an apology to McDonald\u2019s Malaysia, and cease any actions that harm the company\u2019s reputation.", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u3h2q/gerbang_alaf_restaurants_has_requested_bds/", "num_comment": 27, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["BDS finally managed to piss off Melati Abdul Hai. She is a nice lady, but you do not want to piss her off.", "Backstory?", "She is the current Chief Marketing Officer at McDonald's Malaysia. She was put in charge back when McDonald's Corp (the global McDonald's) sold their Malaysian restaurants and the Malaysian McD license to a Saudi Investment Group. At the time the McDonald's brand in Malaysia was in the ropes and she turned it around. She is a very intelligent and nice woman until you piss her off. If you do, she will come at you with everything she has got and then some.\nSOURCE: I worked with her for many years.", "She sounds badass, any story you are willing to share?", "Only that she drove a lot of innovation on the digital advertising front. So much so that many of the other McDonald's worldwide including the US and Japan started emulating her strategies and McD Malaysia became the reference for digital advertising worldwide for McDonald's. But I don't know if that is still the case."], ["Reminder that BDS Malaysia is not formally part of the actual Palestinian run BDS movement, and that the main BDS movement does not call for a boycott of McDonald's:\nhttps://bdsmovement.net/make-an-impact", "BDSMovement\nBDSM", "It is \"endorsed\" by or at least related to the main BDS Movement, and if you actually read the website, they mention that you should follow local campaigns.\nhttps://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott#:~:text=Check%20with%20BDS%20organisations%20in%20your%20country%20for%20the%20brands%20being%20targeted%20in%20your%20community.\nhttps://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/join-a-bds-campaign?country=Malaysia"], ["Their logo says Justice, Freedom, Equality lmao. Does this include LGBT and ex-Muslims? Asking for a friend.", "They are living in a delusion society or just being a random exploited puppet.", "Selective freedom. Damn hypocrisy", "Also no mention of justice for non-muslims aka kaffirs.", "Only when theres Jews involved, there is news. For them.", "Rules for thee, not for me"], ["Ooh, this is an interesting conflict to see."], ["Oh boy, this is not going to end well.\nI can already foresee the shitstorm on Facebook comment section."], ["The opportunist in me wishes that this backfires so hard McD will further lower their price."], ["Damn Terrorist Hamas gang"], ["Finally mcd will it put a nail in their coffin or ?"], ["this is stupid, shit like this just gonna rouse more shit. should've weathered the storm.", "Let\u2019s see how it plays out first , too early to pass judgment whether it\u2019s stupid or otherwise ."], ["I literally checked BDS Malaysia website, it has not made mention of boycotting McDonald's in its statements.\nWhat is Gerbang Alaf referring to here? Which statements are they asking to retract - can anybody point me to them?", "https://bdsmalaysia.com/boycott/\nThere's literal Mcdonald's picture on there\nhttps://bdsmalaysia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/kempen-terkini-1024x1024.jpg\nhttps://bdsmalaysia.com/2023/10/15/press-statement-by-bds-malaysia-in-response-to-the-statement-by-mcdonalds-malaysia/\nWe note also that various McDonald\u2019s franchisees in countries such as Turkiye, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar have announced efforts to provide aid to Palestinians. We further call on McDonald\u2019s Malaysia to condemn Israeli genocidal policies.\nFailure to do the above will reflect McDonald\u2019s Malaysia\u2019s unconcerned stand as thousands of Palestinians are killed under Israeli bombs and may lead to calls for a boycott of all outlets here in Malaysia.\nHere they basically admits they're \"blackmailing\" Malaysia's Mcdonalds into making a statement against Israel, and also sending aid to Israel\nWhich they did within days\nBDS also said this\nJikalau McD Malaysia keluarkan kenyataan terbuka mengutuk jenayah pembunuhan beramai-ramai yg dilakukan oleh Israel terhadap warga Palestin, inshaAllah, BDS Malaysia akan keluarkan kenyataan bahawa McD bukan lagi dalam senarai sasaran syarikat utk diboikot di Malaysia.\nWhich they failed to do so even after Mcdonald's followed their threats", "There's literal Mcdonald's picture on there\nYes, but you need to read what they said about that.\nBerkenaan McD, ia bukan target utama BDS Malaysia. Ia dalam kategori Grassroots organic boycott targets. Berikut penerangan berkenaannya: McDonald\u2019s (AS), Burger King (AS), Papa John\u2019s (AS), Pizza Hut (AS), WIX (Israel), dsb. kini disasarkan di beberapa negara melalui kempen boikot organik akar umbi. Ia bukan dimulakan oleh pergerakan BDS.\nFailure to do the above will reflect McDonald\u2019s Malaysia\u2019s unconcerned stand as thousands of Palestinians are killed under Israeli bombs and may lead to calls for a boycott of all outlets here in Malaysia.\nHere they basically admits they're \"blackmailing\" Malaysia's Mcdonalds into making a statement against Israel, and also sending aid to Israel\nThey're saying that the boycott is happening, but they didn't start it. And they were suggesting McDonald's to be more aggressive in condemning Israel to be clear on their stance, rather than tiptoeing around the issue.\nWhich they failed to do so even after Mcdonald's followed their threats\nDid McDonald's send out a statement condemning Israel?\nWhich they did within days\nThis isn't condemning Israel. This is them giving aid to Gaza. It doesn't mean a lot. Even Israel is giving aid to Gaza."], ["Less burgers less fat kids. All good."], ["Boikot bukan sebab support yahudi tapi sebab harga 'yahudi' pastu lepas makan lapar balik"], ["Want to boycott, go ahead. Dont need to speak ill of other ppl. Let the masses decide for themselves"]]}
{"title": "\"Cold\" war", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18tje03/cold_war/", "num_comment": 40, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["For Malaysian memes every day of the week, please check out c/memeeveryday at our sister community monyet.cc! (why?)\nI am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns."], ["Why tf you tape the cuck oo", "In real cuck fashion, it\u2019s wearing a dick cage", "It's chastity cage/belt if anyone wondered", "Bondage :26561:", "Aedes", "You know how it feels being taped up", "my workplace also tapes the bottom.. idk why they dont want any drainage there its just water..."], ["Serious question: Is there a much cheaper filter that I can use that wouldnt cost me a lot per month but has similar benefits?", "Yes. Like this https://shp.ee/rf6fd5q. You get 8 filters for around 150++. Installation, learn from youtube or ask seller for video or ask a reliable friend to do it for you. Just buy the tools & tube & connectors. Just change the filters periodically according the type. Btw, cuckoo & coway has only 4 filters.", "Can search up Yamada Water Filter in shopee / lazada", "This things only suitable for offices where you can offload the maintenance to the vendor. But for personal/residential use, not worth it.", "I use the LG tankless one, LG puricare. It is basically the same thing with a hot/cold dispenser, and the service you just gotta do it yourself every 6 months. It's painless and none of this subscription, Bullshit."], ["Coway has better aftertaste", "Wey that is not normal at all \ud83d\ude2d", "How is there any different taste? They're both plain water \ud83d\udc40\ud83e\udd28"], ["cuckoo > coway", "Sk magic > cuckoo > coway", "Isn't SK magic a little more expensive than these 2?"], ["you vs the guy she tell you not to worry about"], ["Which one is better? In terms of taste, features etc."], ["honestly i cant tell if the coway one is from 1980 or 2080"], ["question - if you operate an eating place, how much would you price a tall glass of cold water taken from this machine plus hygienic tube ice? RM3? RM5?", "Bruh, nothing more than RM1. It\u2019s water", "At most 50 Sen, RM 3/5 water better give me fucking super powers bro", "I saw a post of someone getting charged RM5.00 for water in a cup in Langkawi. Not even bottled water.", "This is why I don't like tourist areas, like jfc you'd think our economy was turning into Zimbabwe cash", "RM 0.\nExpensive food can be justified if it\u2019s good. RM 3 for ice water is just scummy AF.", "Especially because water bills in malaysia is extremely cheap", "Banyak kedai makan dekat kawasan aku kasi free flow ja kalau air kosong ais. Kalau kau tak kedekut sangat, lagi ramai orang pergi kedai kau.", "Rm3-5???? At that price, you better be serving me some premium natural mineral water like evian or something, not some filtered tap water"], ["Sigh\u2026 flick the water tap in Singapore", "It aint for me."], ["Which one the best"], ["Asked the cuckoo installer once what brand is best he said SK magic...forgot y"], ["I thought this is about students fighting over water so they had to get another one"], ["SK Magic watching from afar \ud83d\udc40"]]}
{"title": "Can we someday have a law where we report highbeam sohais for cash or have their license revoked:/ literally so fed up with these fuckers", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18tm7da/can_we_someday_have_a_law_where_we_report/", "num_comment": 142, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["<image>\nTime to do this", "I wish this is legal", "Same", "I did it on my car\u2026 so far it is safe\u2026 just be careful always turn off if not in use.", "No problem just make your break light Bright and when at traffic just hold your break light it going to be annoying for them", "...but this requires braking. Usually on the road, this happens on highways where you don't brake for extended periods of time.\nThere's really no way to win", "Alright teknik cari gaduh, let him overtake you than chase him and high beam him from behind", "Been there when young, nowadays I just mencarut and let them overtake", "Brake check him until he overtakes you, or he gets down the car and fight you.\nEither way, there's drama!", "Halo pulis, akta hasutan candidate here", "Cannot lah unless you don\u2019t plan on stopping in front of regular ppl for sure will have collateral damage as well, then u become asshole too", "A friend of mine bought a silver navara and he stick some kind of silver reflector sticker and the back of the truck."], ["I curse 7 generations of theirs to the deepest pits of hell.\nOn top of being fucking annoying, it's also extremely dangerous as the glare obscures the vision - it's especially hard to tell when motorcyclists are coming through.\nThese are the kinds of sohais I wish there was \"social justice\" for. Fucking had it with these sohais.", "THANK YOU AMEN AMIN NAMO ABUTABHI BROTHER", "Bro, u dont say. Most motor use high beam also.", "I\u2019m sorry man\u2026 try to fix it, but still if i put on low beam it goes to high beam\u2026 if i put it on high beam it goes to high beam\u2026 bike parts are not getting cheap. \ud83d\udc80", "Put tape on the top half of ur front light. Now its a low beam. Your welcome :>", "That\u2019s actually what i did yesterday", "Did it work", "Amazingly enough\u2026 yes\u2026"], ["You can email jpj. Include your details and what you believe the other car did wrong. Include the plate number of the car. Video or photo of the vehicle with the offence. Plate number must be clear.", "Was assuming jpj wouldn\u2019t give a damn even if I sent them something but if u tried it. Does it work?", "They do. Not sure about jpj, but the police traffic 1 is proven to work. A friend of mine once got a court summon because he rode his motorcycle against a 1 way street. Someone reported him.\nSo im guessing jpj also works.", "Ah I\u2019ll try it soon then", "My experience on the other hand, is that i reported some lorries driving dangerously, over speed limit and obviously overweight (like it is going to explode) to the number they always put behind the lorries (aduan sila sms blabla number). This is in the era where the sms to 5 digit number is the norm. Didnt get any response, dont know if my report is in or not, taken care of or not."], ["If you are not on the right lane (overtaking lane), then just flip the rear review mirror on your r/kereta.\nIf you are actually on the right lane, get out of the lane", "I don't think OP would dare take pic if traffic is fast. The vehicle is moving slowly that's why he is able to take a pic hahaha"], ["I will purposely slow the car to the point they cannot tahan and overtake me. No rage on both side and problem gone. Doesn't take half an hour. Works everything.", "This is what I usually do... I take my leg off the accelerator, and just let the car cruise until it crawls.. No aggressive sudden brakes since that's dangerous.", "I did once, except it wasn't a highway. It was a two lane road and I am already on the left lane. The idiot think it is funny to follow behind me with lampu so bright when the right lane is empty.\nSo I just promptly indicate left, and proceed to stop and park on the side of the road.\nIt was midnight too so there is no one else around on the road so it is so obvious when he passed me I immediately get back on the road again behind him calmly continue driving.\nYou can't argue with stupid. Best is to let them be on their way."], ["It doesn't matter what law, these sohais will always be there to announce their stupid presence... Just slow down, let them pass... & you can have your revenge if you want to... Just a waste of time to even think about them..."], ["Pullover, get behind him, revenge", "I\u2019d love to but I\u2019m a relatively new driver and Honda city brakes kinda shit", "Your tyres suck. I drive a Honda City sometimes and never had an issue. If you don't have a gear selector hope your auto gear has a selector as that helps slow the front section of your car.\nCar brakes can easily out break tyre grip. Modern cars have abs so it makes you think your brakes are terrible as they don't lock. When your tyres don't grip abs won't let you over brake and lock the tyres.\nGrab an OBD2 device and see if abs trips when braking. If it does it's a problem with your tyres.", "Too professional. Put it in words monke like me can understand. But basically what\u2019s a oBD2 and yeah idk much bout cars as well gotta say, shud I get Michelin tires?", "Michelin sucks kinda lol. Go continental.\nOBD2 is a diagnostic port. When there's no grip abs releases the brakes to prevent your tyres locking which causes flat spots and reduced braking distance. If you feel your brakes suck check your tyres. Make sure they are also filled too. When a safety feature triggers it usually gets logged which you can read from any computer plugged into the OBD2 port. In some cases your brakes may not be working properly like your fluid levels being too low however most of the time people don't realise their tyres are worn or are using terrible tyres.", "Michelin primacy and pilot sport series is actually good", "the 2 main brands are michelin and continental, and there are many sub brands or brands connected to them. The michelin side dont even last 5 years, only 2 years. Continental is about 5 years in practice.\nDespite what they say about their life time, the in practice part is down to rubber degradation not wear, based on my experience. My used car initially came with michelin, and based on the year needed changing despite 2 years. I had an accident with them, no grip then suddenly super grip and burst.\nMy mums honda city came with continentals, been stuck with them and worked great, 4-5 years between changes with the exception of the tyre bursting from very very bad pot holes. I switch my used car to one of continental sub brands and its been decent.", "Yeah I mean other Michelin maybe questionable but FWIW Primacy and Pilot Sport is actually good in my experience", "Aite noted my guy", "Pilot sports 5 is one of the best tyres ive ever used on the road and that coming from a guy who used to track a lot locally and internationally and have used slicks and semi slicks", "Yeah even their primacy tyres are good", "the problem is their life span, not initial performance. Mine caused an accident being just 2 years old. No grip, suddenly super grip, burst and crash.", "My last pilot sport 4 lasted well into its 5th year whilst i waited for the pilot sport 5 to ve released. Im not sure about cheaper offerings from them as i have always made it a point to invest in good tyres usually top of the line as i am a fast driver in a decently powerful car. I can't say much about your experience as I've not experienced it but I'd recommend using nitrogen for better lifespan, slower loss of pressure, maybe checking for uneven wear, rotate the tyres etc.", "Nitrogen part not true. Mine is an ecobox. The problem I had was rubber degrading and I have to park outside. Our affordable houses don't have garages.\nThe only place where nitrogen is used is aeronautics. The high heat can cause the oxygen to combust and the uneven gas heat capacity would be an issue. So I bet where you fill is a scam because most of air is nitrogen.\nSure mine aren't performance tyres but not everyone can afford a lot of money for high performance tyres. If the main brands regular tyres rubber last long that's the minimum. There's trade off in a lot for design though and the tyres I once had the biggest complaint was life span and was a common complaint.", "Ill counter argue that nitrogens benefits come from lower wear over time when it comes to the steel lines in your tyres which can affect longevity. It also requires less refill in general as it is more stable. Proof in case i drop 5 to 10 psi (low profile tyres) over a month compared to conventional air through gas station compressors that sees that every 2 weeks. If you like, I'll share my logs through 2023. Its minute in detail but is worth it in the long run. Again granted, very heavy driving and fast corners (empty roads only. I dont let loose when there's cars around)\nI totally get where you're coming from. I do. Ive been broke through most of this year thanks to many things affecting the business but if you dont mind my 2 cents, your tyres are the only thing connecting you to the roads. Its worth maybe saving 50 a month over 3 years for an upgrade. It keeps you safe, protect you from idiots and granted our weather, it'll minimise dangers from puddles on our shitty roads. It really does cut through the waters extremely well. Great stopping distance, handling, reliability really does go a long way to protect your investment and yourself.\nI don't mean to offend. Just sharing my thoughts as i do believe in the importance of good tyres and what it brings to your table.\nEdit: my nitrogen refills are free of charge even when i buy my tyres from elsewhere.", "You don't need to be near for high beams to work. They are literally meant to be bright far away", "The car brakes shit not cause of the brand. It's cause there's something wrong with it. Get your brakes checked. If that shop say it's like that fk that shop and go another.", "It's the tyres. Abs is preventing the wheels locking so you can't tell. If tyres don't grip abs don't brake.", "can you explain 'brakes kinda shit'", "Or just change to another lane, slow down, let him pass, and change back.", "Do not revenge. Later if someone bring baseball bat, everyone in trouble. Unwanted and useless escalation. A lot of case already. Regular people suddenly become crazy.", "I like doing this when I can. I'm petty as fuck."], ["You\u2019re forgetting the best part, he\u2019s behind you which means you can drive slow af to piss him off."], ["Just flip your rearview mirror???\n<image>", "Can confirm it works for high beams from sohai drivers, but on roads where there are non-functional street lamps/street lamps that run in the day time, might be harder to see what's behind your car", "Yeah actually this is the way"], ["I put mirrors at the back and reflective tape all over the back bonnet. Get fucked highbeamer.", "Someone get this guy a YouTube channel. We need to do what he does.", "I already have one but I only make videos", "You only make videos? For YouTube? That...that'll do just fine.", "Yes I need tutorial"], ["Turn the mirror away, take the foot off the accelerator and let the car slow down to a crawl. Best done when there's car on your side and so the farker at the back can't overtake.\nIt will drive him mad while U drive peacefully in a safe speed."], ["Flip your center rear kview mirror.. that way, you just looking in the reflection. That's how I drive at night. Down side is, if you forgot to flip back and an idiot have very low or did not turn on their light, you have no idea someone is behind you\nhttps://www.v3cars.com/features-explained/day-night-inside-rear-view-mirror-irvm-feature-explained#:~:text=A%20mechanical%20switch%20under%20the,everytime%20you%20change%20the%20mode. Hope this helps..", "I can\u2019t tell if your joking but I\u2019ll take a look soon", "Not a joke. That's why you have that toggle in your center rear view mirror..\nA good driving instructor should have teach you this. I don't remember who taught me.."], ["Switch lane let them overtake switch back to original lane turn on high light"], ["I always keep a hand held mirror in my glovebox for this situation, I aim the light back at their retina :)", "HOLY FUCK YOU GENIUS I LOVE REDDIT SO MUCH"], ["A lot of people seems to be assuming I\u2019m on the right lane. I\u2019m on center lane and we\u2019re all stuck in traffic.", "Well next time put in that detail. Road hogs (babi jalanan) are a menace too.", "Yeah forgor people can\u2019t read minds will rmb next time"], ["I know a person who purposely did this every time he drives Aruz. Reason is because he points out that every suv drivers do this. Tried to argue that it is not true but stupidity wins\u2026"], ["Aim your rearview mirror toward the car... They will shut it down themselves... I used it quite a lot of time... It worked... Maybe the light reflected back to them..."], ["Same. Drove from KL to JB then back to KL few days ago and highbeam mofos are out in full force. I am already in the slow lane since i drive an older car, I even let go of the throttle to let this mofo overtake me. Nope, they wants to ride my ass with high beams and fog lights on. Even worst if I get stuck in a jam and it is downhill.\nHappened more than once too in the same drive, although with varying degrees of annoyance."], ["Dont forget rear foglamp cibais"], ["Problem really is when they put those LED lights on cars not meant for such lights."], ["That\u2019s why YB allows 100% tint for the back. Make use of it"], ["As someone with poor vision, these lights always hurt my eyes.\nThey so blind they need such bright and high lights to drive?\nI hope they all crash.", "Fr"], ["Bruh, now day there's too many white light on the road. Not the gentle factory manufactured ones, but OEM parts. Last time I check a set of them would cost 400 ringgit but at shopee only 30 ringgit a bulb. Smh no wonder lah sakit mata"], ["I hope these kind of people always have to go to the toilet when they got comfortable on their bed and their car's engine breakdown at the most inconvenient of their time"], ["lmaoo, I can relate to you. Was driving back to Ipoh on 9-10 pm , and one range rover black color headlight so bright I can see heaven already. My eyes can't even open and worse, there was jam. Can't even move to left cuz already filled with cars.", "Let\u2019s change our back car window to reflective ones like the motorcyclist helmet kind of mirror", "AHAHAH i seriously second this choice. But unfortunately I am a chicken and scared later polis tangkap me :/"], ["Every Malaysian should strive to be a sohai, since Malaysia Boleh!\nJoke aside. Malaysia tarak boleh, sebab orang malas kerja enforcement tarak buat kerja.\nSo you can report kaw-kaw, but unless you have enough wang sogok, then nothing of substance will be done.\nMalaysia Boleh!\nThat is why awhile ago someone asked if he/she should learn Cantonese or Mandarin, and I replied French or German instead. Pity me got thumbs down.\nWhy French or German leh?\nBecause someday if lucky, can migrate to a much better country mah.\nTo live in a better country needs to speak French or German. Otherwise, how? Speak Cantonese with the foreigners ah? Boleh balik Malaysia la.\nDon't dream small by learning Cantonese/Mandarin.\nDream big by learning French/German instead.\nMalaysia Tak Boleh! Saya Boleh!\nMaciam ni la.", "Ong very motivational. Bout to resign from digi customer service and go learn Myanmar language and have my organs harvested", "Then you would not be upgrading yourself to a better country. Instead, you would be downgrading yourself to a worse country.", "So wow, much motivational", "https://govisafree.com/best-countries-to-live-in/\nYup"], ["Just let him through\u2026 if you\u2019re driving on the right lane you\u2019re blocking ppl"], ["just put a mirror at back to reflect back\ud83d\ude0e", "This is the way"], ["so why u cibai dont move away and let him overtake ? ego right...typical"], ["Goes both ways.\nStop hogging the right lane if you\u2019re cruising at 40km/h. Fuck off."], ["Ahhh... Honda City driver... No wonder feeling so entitled. Haha. It depends really. If you are on the right lane, then move to the left lane. If it is a one-lane, then follow the speed limit and use the thing on your rear view mirror.", "On the center lane all the time. I\u2019m not a right lane hogger u nerd.", "You could have moved to the left lane and let him pass no?", "Haha ok2 no need to get emo. Then another option is to move to the left most lane.", "I\u2019m not surprised if u have no friends Man. U wanna look at what u wrote? I don\u2019t think u gave any valuable inputs", "Oh man I shook some feathers didn't I. Let's be friends then \ud83d\ude09", "Mmm explain it on monke mm actually u don\u2019t have to I\u2019m done here\ud83d\udc4c", "I mean, why else would the car makers come up with this feature? To shoo away reindeers is it? Nooo. It is to tell other drivers to move away. I know they won't use it lightly if it is not necessary...", "You have not been driving on the highways at night. People use high beam all the time.", "Yeah I've been there. My point is, avoid these people within your power and not crying out to have laws for it. It's a simple issue with a simple solution. And I am sure any law abiding drivers would use the high beam when the need arises.", "\"I know they won't use it lightly if it is not necessary...\"\nYou obviously don't know them.", "I thought its main purpose is to be used during very low visibility like when there is no streetlight at all, even then when there is another car in front of you or coming the opposite way we always turn it off anyway to be considerate and safe. But then, I might be wrong so feel free to correct me.\nAlso it is damn hard to change lane safely when you cannot see anything behind you other than the bright light beeming into your every mirror.\n\"I know they won't use it lightly if it is not necessary...\" Look if this is the case no one would complain also.\nAnd also I drive a small old ratty car so I never stay on the right lane or middle lane unnecessarily, but still kena this kind of driver how??\nIt is obvious that you are one of these kind of driver so my advice is to think of other people when you drive. We share the road, so try to match other's speed and be kind and considerate. Not keep beeming everyone demanding people give way to you regardless of any situation. Who the f do you think you are?.", "Woah no need to use f letter here. The lever has 2 sides, when you push it, high beam for the dark roads, if you pull it, it is for a quick second to signal something and it goes back to its natural position.\nMy point is, it is a simple problem with a simple solution. Use your own means to control the situation. You can adjust your rear view mirror so it won't be glaring as much, and then safely change lanes."], ["Usually partially blind old uncles. What to do, aging population"], ["Highbeam literally flashbanged my eyes at night. That's why I don't drive at night anymore"], ["put reflective mirror at the rear :)"], ["This is the reason why i always try to buy cars with auto dimming rear view mirror, precisely to not get blinded by these assholes\nSometimes certain things really can't be helped like if you drive a low car and the car behind is a tall SUV, but most times you can see idiots that turn on their high beam because they don't know what's the difference. Easy to spot because they'll have their fog lights on too.\nBasically they switch everything on blindly (heh) and go about their way blinding everyone", "I didn\u2019t know auto dimming morris existed I\u2019ll need one", "It's very handy, borderline essential given how ignorant our drivers are. Highly reccomend!"], ["if your car has rear fog lights turn them on", "If only I had them.. does myvi highest spec have that? I\u2019d get a myvi when I earned enuf money", "don't think so. usually only conti cars got"], ["Even if there are laws about this fat chance of ppl abiding by it and the police/jpj enforcing it."], ["I would usually let the overtake me then turn my highlights on \ud83e\udd23"], ["Buy mini spotlight and put in the back"], ["Usually I just flip that switch below my rear view mirror and proceed to slow down gradually.\nHe can over take me whenever he is ready."], ["I usually tap down on the rear view mirror leaver to have it polarized. I thought its standard in all vehicles. Although, i do agree it can be annoying to see high beam on side view mirrors."], ["Try install reflective tint on rear windshield and chrome accessories.."], ["I'm kinda guilty about this but then again, I have no idea how or why my saga headlight normal mode is like a highbeam. Been getting flashed by oncoming traffic even though it's on normal. It came out of the factory like that or something?"], ["just get out of the way slowpoke", "cry"], ["why drive infront of the dude for 30mins without letting him pass."], ["Also the light would be pointed straight to the front instead of angled downwards"], ["Driving with astigmatism even more jialat :( it's really super dangerous wth"], ["Adjust your side mirrors towards them.."], ["Next time someone's headlight is stabbing your eyes through the rear view mirror, the mirror has a little tab on it. FLICK THE TAB", "THANK YOU"], ["First get auto darkening mirror. Second, angle mirror upwards. Third, let them overtake then do the same to them"], ["They should ban white light. Revert to orange lights."], ["Just let him pass. Don't be a moving chicane"], ["we have the same problem in brunei..."], ["Let\u2019s fix the bully rempits first\u2026"], ["This is in fact illegal in many countries. You are not allowed to use your high beams in good weather because it can blind other drivers."]]}
{"title": "Driver refuses to pay RM15 to jaga kereta for public parking space in KL, comes back to a scratched car - paultan.org", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u37sd/driver_refuses_to_pay_rm15_to_jaga_kereta_for/", "num_comment": 11, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["That's why I drive shit car, people scratch also I won't notice", "Problems solved?"], ["I would park in a legal car park and walk a bit further rather than give money to these kutus. Or use public transport/Grab.\nIf everyone stops giving in to these pests, they'll be starved of their income.\nBut as most Malaysians prefer to take the easy way out, then by all means, go ahead and pay the 15 bucks extortion fee.\nThe problem will always be here because of people willing to pay out of both convenience and fear.", "It happens on legal parking spots too", "These are legal public parking spots. Usually by day pay using app and night is free but then these mofos come out to extort. Authorities unfortunately also kerja 9-5. This issue has been ongoing for over a decade, be it city centre or suburbs.", "Agree, the authorities should clamp down on this after-hours activity by the parking kutus.", "They will ask for money on a legal car park too.", "I mean parking inside a building or a closed car park space, not legal street parking."], ["I drive a cheap car but put a nice number plate. Most times they just say oh cantek nombor keta ye. I just walk away pretending not to hear because don't want them to even initiate conversations or ask for money. So far so good it worked to scare them off. I don't mind to pay for valet parking and other proper privately owner car parks but just not to touts or gangster jaga keta."], ["Pay 15 or I scratch your car! Sometimes these fellas are asking for a beating."], ["If you can afford it go take a taxi/e-taxi."]]}
{"title": "Sudden switch to meritocracy in education may cause unrest, says ex-MP Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj (PSM)", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u3fho/sudden_switch_to_meritocracy_in_education_may/", "num_comment": 27, "flairlabel": ["Education"], "comments": [["Malaysia is not ready for meritocratic practices in its education system, according to Parti Sosialis Malaysia chairman Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj.\nHe said a sudden shift to meritocracy could exacerbate political and social unrest if it resulted in professional courses being filled with an overwhelming majority of non-Bumiputera students.\n\u201cAny system must be fair to all. This is also not something that is politically feasible or acceptable. It\u2019s going to cause a lot of unhappiness,\u201d he told FMT in an exclusive interview.\nProposals for university admissions to be based on merit have arisen out of discontent with the current quota system by which non-Malays from lower economic backgrounds have missed out on opportunities for higher education.\nTo be fair, I think the Dr. is just pointing out the sad reality that many in the public sphere of Malaysia today probably won't be ready for a meritocratic education system (or as close to meritocracy as it can be), not that he's personally against a meritocratic system.\nHell, not too long ago in 2018, there was huge rally in KL because the conservative forces in this country don't agree with Malaysia ratifying a UN treaty calling for an end to all forms of racial discrimination.\nAnti ICERD rally: So, what's the estimate?\nWhat would happen if such a laudable policy was simply proposed today? The Unity government would be criticized left, right and center for being 'anti-Malay' and 'taking away' Bumiputera rights, and the gullible will believe in this narrative.", "if it resulted in professional courses being filled with an overwhelming majority of non-Bumiputera students\ni kindda agree if people have this assumption set as default. but we have done this before and it goes the other way around really badly. :26561:", "Interesting! Could I get some sources on that?", "Then it\u2019s not fair to capable nons who should rightfully fill the place. That in itself is a great disservice to the nation n much unbeneficial to bumis"], ["Pain now, gain later"], ["From free tongkats to free electric wheelchairs for generations, now you expect them to make an effort?"], ["isnt meritocracy = fairness? what's the point of graduating with tongkat?"], ["Should not have quota for certain courses that have bad consequences when small mistakes are made e.g. nuclear science, medicine, structural, geotechnical, aviation etc"], ["They know if they play fair, public universities will be dominated by Cina"], ["SMKCs: meh"], ["When will Malaysia ever be fully ready, actually?", "never"], ["The way to do it is by first starting a \"no one left behind\" policy in education.\n1st step: get a lot more teachers, like 30% more than what we have now at least.\n2nd step: You suck at studying? Failing your \"insert subject\"? You join after school class, mandatory. Qualified guidance counsellor to 1 to 1 go through what's the student's problem is and helping them to fix it. No go home loiter, we make sure you pass, by understanding why you can't understand. Move you to syllabus more suitable to your aptitude.\nThen we go towards a more meritocracy education system."], ["Sudden change, yes. Gradual change, no.\nKeep the racial quota for now, but make it b40 malay only. Need to check income tax to verify. It helps the country because families who want to enjoy this needs to declare income, more data for the government and potential higher income tax collection.\nWe can open it up to other races after the majority are used to the concept."], ["Allocate seats as per race distribution, so roughly 10% to Indians, 30% to Chinese and 60% to Malays. Use meritocracy within each category. Its not hard.\nThis way Malays are ensured allocation, while there\u2019s still a mechanism to ensure seats for the highest performers within each category.", "I was gonna agree and upvote the idea but that last sentence is distasteful.", "Well if that's the case you gotta allocate proportionately to sabah and sarawak folks as well, Iban, dayak, kadazan etc.\nMalaysia isn't just peninsula", "Agreed.", "Not a fan of this. My perceived aim of public university education is to give lower income students to affordable venue to better themselves and improve social mobility. Instead of making the distribution based on race, we should make it based on socioeconomic level and academic performance. High performers from a high income family don't need public university ecudation because their family can afford private university education for them.", "That would be the ideal situation. I completely agree. My comment was trying to be realistic and ensure a proportionate level of malay seats.", "You made a valid point that I felt was worth looking into deeper and definitely one for discussion, until...\nIf you don\u2019t agree with this you\u2019re a racist.\n...because apparently this isn't a discussion and if I find a flaw in it I'm a racist lol. Sorry, get over yourself.", "or distribute based on familial income."], ["So ? How to increase its country economy? Will it be continue of 500 years of being bully by other nation or prosperity after 100 years ?"], ["Survival of the fittest, scared is for the weak"], ["I don't get it. Are we not using meritocracy in tertiary education except for UITM/Matriculation?"], ["There\u2019s a white horse in the room thats never talked about. The average IQ of Malays(and Indians) fall substantially behind the Chinese. This will be reflected in academic performance. This is not easily corrected and will take generations. So mediocracy will not work for Malays for the longest time."], ["Isu is not about competition at all for Malays. Its about having the unis opened but sjk/smjk still being there."]]}
{"title": "Is this scam in Georgetown?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u4qbf/is_this_scam_in_georgetown/", "num_comment": 9, "flairlabel": ["Tourism & Travel"], "comments": [["if those who come and ask for money giving you sad stories then yea its a scam.\nAs for inviting you for tea or a drink at a nearby coffee stall, so far in malaysia we dont have such scam yet, thry cant bring you to a kopitiam and get you charged for rm50 for a coffee. But still, just reject for your own safety."], ["I just read a thread in r/travel by a woman who was traveling in Barcelona and was asked out to tea by a random stranger. She declined, but someone mentioned it\u2019s a scam where you go out and are eventually presented with a huge bill.", "\"She was about to get teabagged in Barcelona...\""], ["Dude\u2019s so ugly his camera thinks his face is NSFW and blurred it out."], ["Most likely you\u2019re targeted because you don\u2019t look like a local."], ["Scam and vigilante more\nSorry it happen to you\nU probably stand out a lot since it is foreigner and u are soloing travelling , best be careful and dont go out at 11pm onward"], ["If anybody looks to you for money or randomly asking you out for tea, it's most likely a scam. They'll put on sad face, wear dirty clothes and look pitiful to play with your emotions. Locals don't entertain random strangers like that, do be careful."], ["The second one is probably a scam. It happened to me too. A man on a bike asked me if I'm a foreigner and speak English and I said yes. He said he needed money because he forgot his wallet. He only has his phone. I asked him why doesn't he use his phone to call a friend to help him? Or he can use his bike and ride back home. Then he left angry."]]}
{"title": "Georgetown and Balik Pulau", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u630f/georgetown_and_balik_pulau/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": [], "comments": []}
{"title": "Singapore jails man for 20 weeks over use of fake Malaysian passport", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u2vvm/singapore_jails_man_for_20_weeks_over_use_of_fake/", "num_comment": 2, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["Screencap of the article\n<image>"], ["Mirror"]]}
{"title": "For Malaysian, time to plan your leaves for 2024! Here\u2019s a list of the long weekends of the 2024.", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18tng88/for_malaysian_time_to_plan_your_leaves_for_2024/", "num_comment": 9, "flairlabel": ["Tourism & Travel"], "comments": [["Planning my fishing trip"], ["Hmm... would there be a jam on the PLUS highway on the 25th (Thaipusam)? Feels like I might want to visit my parents in Penang if there's no jam.", "Think most will save their leaves for CNY and Raya. Too early in the year to use up the leaves. LoL", "Thaipusam have 2 days, combine saturday and sunday = 4 days. So, dont even need to take leave to spend time in penang.\nAnd from my experience, every long holiday the traffic to penang will be jam packed. I had faced it 2 times. I forgot which holiday it was, but imagine from kl to penang 8 hours."], ["Thanks OP!"], ["OP kasi flair yg elok jgk. Aku stim sia :26554:"], ["Thank you for this"], ["Raya is 10th April?! I thought it was 9th???"], ["i do want to add that on September since prophet muhammad birthday and malaysia day happened on the same day (16th sept), thus 17th sept also a national holiday."]]}
{"title": "Why malaysia categorize people like minangkabau or javanese or bugis as malay ?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18tsdke/why_malaysia_categorize_people_like_minangkabau/", "num_comment": 114, "flairlabel": ["Culture"], "comments": [["Do you know that even Malay have their own \u201ctribe\u201d?\nBtw, there\u2019s no stealing or anything going on. As a Sarawak Malay, I can\u2019t and wouldn\u2019t claim Kelantan/Terengganu/N.Sembilan/etc Malay culture as my own.", "Fr. There are similarities by having the same roots but in the end we have different dialects, mindset and clothing though minor", "One of the reason why federal assistance for West Malaysia felt more of a compulsory than voluntary for the past decades.\nGotta coat sugar on federal daddy by supporting their policies or else no funds for you."], ["That would just make bumiputra complicated.", "Then what about sarawak/sabah bumiputra? Theres plenty of chinese in sarawak that is bumiputra", "There are instances of chinese being labelled as bumis back in the older days cuz sometimes chinese peeps got kids and gave them away for adoption to tribes due to not being able to care for them. Then they make ic just claim bumi la cuz grow up with bumis. But that shit stopped like decades ago tho", "Can confirm bc my mom is exactly this.", "Same here my Muslim kampung adopted a ton of children (not all became Muslim) regardless they all got bumi status.\nThis isn\u2019t the case anymore tho."], ["It's just like malay call cuttlefish, octopus and squid all as sotong. Its just easier.", "Cuttlefish: Sotong katak,\nOctopus: kurita,\nSquid: cumi-cumi.\nHope that helps.", "Thank f\u2019n you!\nYou are forever blessed in all your endeavours relating to clan sotong-sotong.", "Isnt octopus called gurita not kurita?", "Both can be used.", "I've never seen it spelled with g before, always k", "Yes.", "I remember being a kid wondering why I have 3 different friends who look like 3 different races called Malay, none of them mixed btw. All their parents just are 100% \u201cMalay\u201d\nWhile I\u2019m a chindian who has at times been told to go back to \u201cmy country\u201d\nI still don\u2019t know exactly how it works but it\u2019s stupid", "Oh that. That's called Racism my boy :28915:", "It makes you feel better.\nGoing to have to drop the majority of my ethnic classification to a single ethnicity due to how mix many of east Malaysians are by government laws recently to simplify our ethnicities.\nI am an orang asal and yet very mix.\nI was always harassed unironically by people of immigrant descent or immigrants to go back to my own country LoL.", "Use bi-generation (Doctor Who reference)", "it's not just easier- it's an erasure of identity."], ["There's a difference between Melayu Jati and Melayu Anak Dagang among the Orang Melayu Malaysia\nMelayu Jati refers to the Malay tribes that established kingdoms in the land. Melayu Kelantan, Pahang, Kedah, Terengganu, etc.\nMelayu Anak Dagang are the Austronesian tribes who are Muslims, migrated and settled in the land that would become modern day Malaysia, intermarried and become assimilated, and eventually became Malayized (this is where the term \"Masuk Melayu\" comes in play). They wear Melayu clothes, habitually speak Bahasa Melayu, and practice budaya Melayu. So much so that they are considered as Melayu also. Although they might retain some aspects of their original heritage.\nThe modern day constitution does not differentiate between who is a Melayu Jati and who is a Melayu Anak Dagang.", "Please dont destroy our belief!\nAll malays import from Indonesia\n/s", "This is correct. This what I learn at my Uni.. already forget what subject it is.", "Where is this referred from", "There's three actually Melayu Jati, Melayu Anak Dagang and Melayu Peranakan, Melayu that are mixed with others like Melayu Cocos, Cape Malays and Melayu Betawi (although this one only in Indonesia)"], ["I'm just sharing a poem by Usman Awang, a Johorean. Probably it has to do with how Malays in the peninsular view the concept of race during the early Malay nationalism period.The was even an attempt by leftist Malays like Burhanuddin Helmi to form Melayu Raya (along with Indonesia) after the end of Japanese Occupation. British put a stop to that."], ["They aren't counted as malay, \"officially\" but they can change their race as Malay since Malaysia constitution refers the Malay as: \" orang Melayu itu mestilah beragama Islam, mengamalkan adat budaya Melayu, bertutur menggunakan bahasa Melayu dan (a) lahir sebelum hari merdeka sama ada di Persekutuan atau Singapura, atau pada hari merdeka telah bermastautin di Persekutuan atau Singapura\", so, most of the people from the races you stated (+ siamese) already changed their identity to Malay to gain \"bumiputera\" status and its privileges, or else their identity would just be \"keturunan Indonesia\".\nBut socially, people are still calling javanese, \"orang jawa\" most of the time, not happening to minangkabau and bugis tho, people will just call them malay", "Actually, it's just this current generation that doesn't. The previous generation would actively identify by their ancestors, whether bugis or minang or what not. My uncle-in-law would stand by the term of \"orang Bugis\" whenever got people asking our family \"orang mana dia tu?\" in earshot. Heck, even a slightly older friend of mine would call herself orang Minang.\nSo if you wanna blame someone for not referring to their ancestors, probably blame this generation instead.\nP/s: on paper, of course they would still be labeled Malays, it's easier that way for them. But vocally, they'd stand by whatever they are."], ["I'm surprised no one brought up the 1998 riots or the 60s genocide yet to flame OP", "I believe the demographic of this sub is predominantly innocent to that knowledge, and history book didn't mention at all.", "Welp we had our own may incident tho not as tragic as the one happened in Indonesia"], ["need to prop up the Malay numbers. cannot show that Malay is lesser than 50%", "\ud83d\ude05\ud83d\udc4d"], ["Racial politics is different here"], ["The concept of Bumiputra is a scam when you know there's a tier even for Bumiputra. Thumbs up to the generation that votes the parties that screams Bumiputra whole year long /s\nThe party that screams the another card buys expensive cars and will let a newspaper company goes bankrupt by not paying will 100% be worse.", "Shallow minded people think racial class is everything. Reality is when you realize it's economical class that really separate people apart"], ["Easy ; put all under once category and then claim they are the majority and slowly rot away their original name, background and identity with one created by the ruling elites.", "Sounds like what the so called Communist, USSR did in their whole existence and failed.", "But I see a lot of people are coming to be more individualistic; they will claim their bugis/jawa roots then calling themselves malays.", "It's better if Malaysians starts recognising their heritage. We're a mixed pot of ethnicity. Don't let rulers divide us using the laziest excuse: RnR"], ["Broadstroke categorization invented by the colonial brits when doing population surveys back in the days. We just inherited it and believed it lol.", "Inherited it, and continue to use it as a political tool to keep the \"majority\" numbers.\nBased on the Federal Constitution of Malaysia, Malay is a person who professes the religion of Islam, habitually speaks the Malay language, and conforms to Malay customs.\nBy that, anyone can become constitutionally \"Malay\".\nAlso, think about why they make it hard for converts to revert.", "You missed out one important context to the definition of Malay - they should also be a person who is born before independence day. So anyone born after that will follow their parents\u2019 race.", "Farish A Noor has a chapter about this in his book What Your Teacher Didn't Tell You. He shows our original census having like 9 races for what we consider as \"Malay\" today. Great book 10/10 read.", "I see it as similar to classification of race and ethnicity in North America vs Europe. In Europe, Europeans identify as their respective ethnicity while in North America, Europeans identify as white. The white identity was crucial for Europeans to distinguish themselves from natives and Black people who they deemed inferior to them. Similarly, in Malaysia, the Malay identity was important to distinguish themselves from migrant races and possibly also because they view other races as inferior to them.", "The controversial ones don\u2019t see the other races as \u201cinferior\u201d but rather as a threat to their lifestyle, wealth and religion as their leadership would have them believe."], ["IMO there isn't much tribalism between Malays. Even the Mamak Malays. In the North there's lots of Mamaks but are Malays. They'll look 100% like any other South Indian but will be Bumiputera. This is because lots of Malays in the north had intermixed with Malays from Myanmar and Southern Thailand. This is why Northern Malays are diffrent from Southern Malays.\nIn the South, the food is more Southeast Asia toned such as Tempeh,Rebung,Rendang\nIn the North, our food is influenced by Indian Food such as Curry,dalca,roti canai,chapati,bihun sup,sup tulang.\nMalays in Kelantan create their own language,food and culture. For example akok cake,etc. Kelantanese Food is like a long lost Jungle Kind Malay Food with their own version of cheese.\nThis also kinda explains the election results.\nNo matter how Indian looking, white looking(me personally), if your dad/mom(citizen,etc many factor for mom) is a Malay, then you are MALAY."], ["Hello cultural genocide, nice to see you again :29091:", "To be fair it isn\u2019t exactly a cultural genocide.\nFrom east Malaysia and from a \u201cclan\u201d of orang asal that was is partially malaynised. Our orang asal community tend to be very mix anyway so we often combine different cultures.\nThe vast majority of Bumi adopted part of Malay culture or some in full due to brotherhood. (In the east at least)\nFor my people, it was more brotherhood with east Malaysian Malays (indigenous Malays) and also more to integrate with west Malaysia.\nWe are way to mix of all ethnicity from European to etc so every has a sub section of something really different but in our core we have our orang asal culture and orang Melayu culture", "Elaborate what cultural genocide means specifically", "Indonesia is well known for their force assimilation policy. Chinese cant even have Chinese name or use Chinese language in everyday life in public sphere.", "This was abolished about 25 odd years ago so people can speak Chinese and use Chinese names now. But then again Chinese Indonesians still use Indonesian names and speak Bahasa Indonesia out of habit and convenience.", "They still do to this day? No apparently"], ["To be fair, anyone can be a Malay and Malay loves that. You can be a non-Asian but still be a Malay if you adapt the culture and live like a Malay.\nOf course, the final ingredient would be marrying a Malay.\n\u201cBut you won\u2019t get bumiputra benefits!\u201d\nThat\u2019s where you\u2019re wrong kiddo. I have seen multiple scenarios where non-Malay was identified as Malay just because they look like it. Some of them included a pure Chinese who just happened to look a lil bit darker & speak fluent Malay.\nHonestly, I\u2019m not even mad.\nIf this is what it takes to unify Malaysia, so be it.", "I always see people said that among bumiputera, Malay are first class while others are second class\u2026 but if you think about it a second, it\u2019s weird. Anyone can legally become a Malay. That\u2019s mean the so called first class is actually open while the second class is an exclusive\u2026 That\u2019s doesn\u2019t make sense.", "The root of the problem is the mandatory religion, and it is a one-way street, you can't get out; however, you may choose not to practice, but still subject to some laws.", "People no longer see religion as a belief, they see religion as component in a system. Something that can be swap anytime. Unlike components, belief is hard to change. It\u2019s either get stronger or weaker but not outright forgotten. That\u2019s why the constitution placed Islam first in the definition of a Malay, because belief is the core of any human.", "My Uncle was a high ranking police officer and was Chinese. He was very tan and looked Malay also having great Malay obviously."], ["Numbers politics n identity politics. Without it their numbers are not enough"], ["I think it's just political will back in 70s. My late dad was categorized as Javanese in his death certificate but was Malay in my birth certificate. I know someone who was of arab descent are also \"Bumiputera Malay\" in their IC and then proud that they only have Malay grandmother or something."], ["I am of Pagaruyung descent.\nPagaruyung was called Malayupura at one point... did you know? Arguably, the true Malays are Minang and Riau people, from West Indonesia. We started with the kingdom of Malacca, founded by a Sumatran.\nFYI, Javanese are often NOT regarded as true Malays. They're often called Orang Jawa here. They still look Javanese (tanned skin, squared jaw, short). They cook and eat and sell Javanese food even to this day. Same goes for Bugis but most Bugis tend to drop their heritage and assimilate because they look less distinctive. Even to this day, we worship Hamka etc., still relevant culturally, and we have a lot of roads and places named after prominent Sumatrans who developed Malaysia in the early days."], ["Mencapai definisi melayu; Islam, bertutur bhs Melayu, mengamalkan adat Melayu. Eventho they\u2019re from different culture, they assimilated well with the malays. Ask any malaysian javanese what\u2019s their breakfast today, or better \u201cisuk tadi mangan opo?\u201d Instead of pecel they ate nasi lemak.", "", "Bit harsh tbh. The person you're replying to didn't make those rules", "Your take is stupid, narrow and lacking forethought.\nI'm not the person you're insulting and I'm not Malaysian, but I think it's a bit less upsetting when you understand that all identities are partly made up and deeply contextual....\nto make a whole religion take an identity\nIndonesia does exactly the same thing in its own ways, as all countries do. For example, it doesn't matter what you believe, you're forced to accept one of the official religions on your identity card.\nI'm not defending how Malaysia uses religion and ethnicity in constructing its national identity, but its easily understood in historical context.", "Yeah they are not Malay in the blood. But have you read his comment properly? Malay is just an umbrella term for people of the same behaviour, religion, language and shit. Let's take your example, say you are an Indian but grew up in Germany, practice german culture, speak german and eat german food. People will consider you German but not ethnically German.", "That's the short version of what is legally malayu/bumiputra. It's not biological, but rather recognises cultural similarities. Same religion, same language, tradition, etc. As long as it's 70%+ similar at the time of independence. You can legally call yourself Malay/bumiputra status. Since this was fairly new after the war. Where most people lost their documentation and don't really have education on biology/race. So they basically round up most Muslim as melayu and any other orang asli group as bumiputera.\nNow it's base on parents bloodline. That's why melayu technically don't have freedom of religion and some don't look Malay due to mix with other race Arab/cina/Indian/etc.", "Hello, this comment was removed due to being in breach of reddiquette, specifically because it contained personal attack, insult, or threat. While opinions of all kinds are welcome under our shared roof, reddiquette sets the expectation that everyone speaks to each other with basic civility and respect:\nDon\u2019t: Conduct personal attacks on other commenters. Ad hominem and other distracting attacks do not add anything to the conversation.\nDon't: Insult others. Insults do not contribute to a rational discussion. Constructive Criticism, however, is appropriate and encouraged.\nDon\u2019t: Be (intentionally) rude at all. By choosing not to be rude, you increase the overall civility of the community and make it better for all of us.\nPlease treat this as an official warning - further such activity may result in a ban, thanks."], ["I heard a taxi driver in Batam speaking Malay like Malaysian accent, he claimed to come from somewhere in Sumatera. I think he is a pure Malay.", "yes there are Malays in Batam. Batam, Lingga and Riau used to be part of Johor empire not long ago.", "Southern Sumatran provinces of Riau Islands, Riau, Palembang, Jambi are the original Malay heartlands. Remember Parameswara came from Palembang, and he was from a long line of ancestors of the Srivijaya- a Malay empire.\nConversely the Majapahit was a Javanese empire."], ["Racial politics and required inclusivity. When politicians are trying to invoke racial prejudice against the minority, it's easier to use the term \"Malay\" to include all the above mentioned groups. Being Malay is a privilege and has constitutional perks, so it's a win win situation for the politicians and the ethnic groups involved. Tun Mamak has been one of the fiercest champions of Malay rights, him being a Mamak of course.", "There's nothing wrong with being Mamak. Even PMX have Indian ancestry. We accept all kind in Malaysia", "Learn to read. Did I say there's anything wrong with being Mamak, Bugis, Minangkabau? I was answering the OP on why the tendency to include all \"tribal groups\" under the general umbrella of ethnic Malay, and why such groups overwhelmingly self identify as being Malay. If you think using the term Mamak is derogatory, that's on you, not me."], ["Ek eleh dia ni. Still have the mentality:\n\"Indonesia is the centre of the universe and the world should follow us\".\nIndonesia this Indonesia that...\nPshhhhhhh"], ["Thanks to British Segregation, I guess?", "Nah. Just racism. Even Indo discriminates against full on Chinese since the old Dutch East Indies company days."], ["Just like what most malaysian think indian=tamil and by default people that celebrates deepavali", "Nah, most Malaysians do not think that. Many are aware of the difference between north and South Indian.", "That's confusion only exist in western countries by westerners.", "Nope, Malaysians are guilty as well for being ignorant with the different groups of people who call Malaysia their home. I find it a pet peave with Malaysians who are oblivious with this than some westerners.", "That sounds more like an issue of the people you surround yourself with.\nSkill issues. Yikes."], ["If you don't know, during 16xx there's a kingdom names Malay kingdom of Johor riau, in which consist of, Johor, riau,Jambi and kepri. This is why those decent from minang and javanese or bugis decent are considered as malay. They are in the Malay realm.", "and basically they speak the variant of the same language family"], ["So that the \u201cmajority\u201d is. So\u2026"], ["I know that this question is rage bait, and OP is a bad faith arguer and not for actual discourse. But Indonesians need to realise the history of Malaysia, and the history of Indonesia are very different.\nAs per your example the Minang people, the Bugis and the Java people are still minang and still java in essence, but those tribes in Malaya has been \"malayanised\" to a point where their culture has been adopted and absorbed to the the greater Malayan Malay identity.\nThen, there came the colonial history. Unlike in Indonesia, the racial demographic of the local populace and immigrants brought in by the colonial authority wasn't as drastic as in Malaya during the same period. If we used the British census of 1911, the \"Malays\" made up 46.8 percent, while the Chinese and Indians were 34.7 and 10.1 percent of the population, respectively. This means the total amount of \"Malay\" and the total amount of \"Non-Malay\" were nearly proportionate in numbers.\nThis spark another point of social demographic in the way Malayan Malay society sees itself. If you think the feelings felt by Indonesians during your early period of independence against the Chinese were bad. Imagine when it also comes into play demographics.\nThus, \"Malay\" became a catch-all term for the tribes in Malaya. As a way to nurture a bigger identity, in a way, it is like an umbrella for this group to be under. They are still of Minang descent, Javanese descent, and Bugis descent but are now in a greater national identity for political reasons.\nJust like how there are Indonesian Javanese, Indonesian Minang or Indonesian Malay. It is another layer of umbrella terms used in Malaya for the sake of political cohesion. Thus, the term Malay is then referred to not only in a racial or tribal sense but also in a larger polity as well for political cohesion."], ["The malays in Malaysia are based on the ethnicities of the Malay world which is an outdated term for the Austronesian realm which include the Javanese, the Bugis and etc. The word is used by the British due to group ethnicities in the Malay peninsula which is was and still a diverse place. We simply just inherited the term. It is no different than you guys inheriting the term Indonesian that was coined by the Dutch to refer to all ethnicities in the Dutch East Indies so don't act all high and mighty", "But indonesian is not ethnicity nor its how dutch refer us, its from british geography scholar. The term is neutral and refer to nationality ,if we inherited from dutch we will call ourself dutch east indies. Indonesia doesnt refer to a certain ethnicity if we are like you guys who refer all brown skinned muslim people as malays we\u2019ll call it \u201cjavanese\u201d because its the biggest ethnicity in south east asia but of course its wrong, so we call ourself indonesian which doesnt elevate certain ethnicity status\nMalays is not neutral term, its just specific term for ethnicity in sumatra and semenanjung and for censuses reason and lazyness , British starting to call brown skinned people of sea as malays, which is really wrong and misleading like you said.\nLooks the way of op the word is rude but it is pretty true how malaysia refer malays is outdated and misleading but its in your constituency law so as long as malay malaysian doesnt call brown Muslim people outside malaysia as malays and force \u201ctamadun malay\u201d or \u201cgreat malays civilization \u201c and \u201cmalay race\u201d which is not exist, we are fine with it but in reality some of malaysian think like that."], ["...because we all were malay? It's an ethnicity, right?", "Not really.\nMalay is both of an ethnic and racial group.\nEthnicity can be specific and they can be similarities however it also has sub ethnicity due to the major differences within a single ethnic group.\nRace on the other hand does not take into account genetics but rather culture and geography.", "And for many people there is no malay race, there are austonesian. \u201cMalay race\u201d is outdated term from british colonial era which is not exist", "You might be confused.\nThe Malay race has existed pre British era.\nEven then the concept there is no Malay race is blatantly wrong.\nYou are now confusing the concept of race with old European racism and racial category.\nModern concepts of race and the Malay identity has always existed.\nMalay as a race has always been about culture, language and beliefs. Ethnicity wise it\u2019s about genetics.\nThis is how the Arab world is majority non Arab.", "No its not, \u201cmalay race\u201d its just outdated debunked by many scholar because the existence and reason is doofus and has been ingrained to your country as segregation and reason for your \u201cpride\u201d of malay civilization. I am not confused.\nMalay as group of people in fact exist in the later phase of srivijaya and coming from jambi and south sumatra, and people later adapted as \u201cgroup\u201d name starting from there because the oldest melayu kuno prasasit is prasasti kedukan bukit from sumatra. It spread out to riau and then semenanjung\nAnd you know javanese sundanese bataknese and minang and all ethnicity in sumatra and java are far more older than malay and non of them refer themselves as \u201cmalay race\u201d\nMalay race still just a tool from british to validate malay king at the time as proxy leader and census.\nYeas malay ethnicity is older than british colonization but not \u201cmalay race\u201d because its never existed", "Brother you\u2019re going down a rabbit hole without any level of understanding about race and ethnicity and also historical concepts of race.\nI am not Malay, I don\u2019t identify as Malay. Now your coming to attack both affirmative action and indigenous rights two aspects adopted by the United Nations and many countries including the US, Australia and so fourth.\nJavanese etc are a different race I am not sure what aspect of modern race usage you are using but it\u2019s completely wrong and not even the definition I have mentioned.\nMalay again just like Arab has been defined racially as both a geographical, linguistic, cultural and at times a religious group.\nYou are failing basic race concepts and understanding of modern race history. The Malay race as a concept traces back to the Malay Annuals long before European colonialism in the region.\nYou are using Johann Friedrch (who is not even British) definition of race which labels almost all of south east Asia maritime as Malay.\nThis is the outdated and wrong racial information you are using.\nInstead of yapping about a topic you have little understanding about with such confidence. Settle down and actually learn about modern race classification, historical, the difference between indigenous rights, affirmative action and segregation and so fourth.\nTo further add: if you are referencing the modern concept of Malay race in Malaysia in particular again it just came down to cultural, linguistic, religious and geographical aspects.\nIt was a sub variant of the already establish identity of the Malay peoples.", "Oh if its like that , i am sorry for misunderstanding, i am myself not exactly the believer of \u201crace\u201d and more like cultural group. The problem is whenever some people refer to \u201cmalay race\u201d in malaysia is always like include us javanese, sundanese etc to bloated their number and pride. Which is wrong and ignorant thats what i refer to\nYes there is malay cultural group spread from palembang jambi riau and semenanjung", "That I can agree with. I am explaining in the Malaysian context and modern usage of race as a cultural group.\nThanks for the conversation.", "You too have a great day", "You do know many of javanese, sundanese approve of the assimilation right? Do you want to call it wrong and ignorant when both melayu jati and melayu dagang agree on the assimilation? Name me one event of forced assimilation of malays to the orang dagangs.", "No what i mean is javanese and sundanese in indonesia, not in malaysia and from what i know there is little to no immigration sundanese to malaysia only javanese. I am an indonesian javanese the bonafide one, if javanese who live long enough in malaysia choose to assimilate, sure no problem we called them as javanese \u201c jawa sing wes ilang jawane\u201d mean \u201cjavanese whose already lost their javanese\u201d\nWhat i refer is malaysian malay who always said the true javanese and sundanese and another ethnicity in indonesia as \u201cmalay\u201d or \u201cmalay race\u201d which is wrong and ignorant", "You have no idea what you're talking about."], ["k."], ["Sebab semua bumiputera, so no point beda2. As Muslims, it is important to be united upon Islam", "United?", "Unity"], ["You what's funny? Indonesia had a dream of annexing malaysia right away after British left and called it Indonesia Raya. By that point, if they manage to achieve their wet dream they'll just label everyone melayu nusantara.\nThe term isn't unique to Malaysia btw that's what your government want you to believe. See malay archipelago to understand what i mean."], ["because science said so\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy5ZvYUjmqY\nInfact from this study by USM prof has proven that all east asian people originated from the same mitochondrial DNA."], ["Politics"], ["Singapore and Brunei also does this- in fact in all 3 countries' constitutions a Malay is someone who: 1. Speaks Malay \"habitually\"; 2. Practices \"Malay customs\"; and 3. Is a Muslim\nMy guess is that the British just decided to lump all Muslim pribumis as \"Malay\" (including Indian Muslims and Arabs) which probably was not something the Dutch did. Also Malay is the majority among the pribumis, unlike in Indonesia. So upon independence the Constitution (which was written by the British) maintained this."], ["Username indicates OP is \"tak betul\"...jangan layan sangat"], ["Assimilation"], ["If you like diversity so much why did you force assimilate the ID chinese?"], ["It can be not as sinister as it seems. In Singapore it\u2019s the same. In SG it\u2019s not just Malays, Chinese regional language culture was also deemphasized. It\u2019s a lot to do with practicality. Identifying and mixing with a bigger group is sometimes needed. Sometimes there\u2019s just not enough people to keep traditions and language because they inter-marry. The important thing is whether the people themselves want to be identified as such. I think people from Negeri Sembilan identify as Malay and Minangkabau at the same time."], ["you dont know kah?\nthe country some outdated policy is to make everyone \"Malay\". You marry a Malay, you become a Malay regardless of your gender.\nIf you are not \"Malay Bumi & islam\", you downgraded second class citizen as stated in Constitution."], ["Because different country have different interpretation of what is a Malay.\nIf you think Malaysian Malay is too broad of a categorisation, check out how the Philippines defines a Malay.\nAlso, easier to govern. For example there are many Chinese subgroups e.g. Hakka, Hokkien, etc. but then it is easier to group them all as Chinese. Same goes with Malay, Indian, and Dayak groups.\nIn Malaysia we like to say \"cincai kira\". Which shows Malaysian tendency for simplicity and pragmatism. Whatever works, fine with us."]]}
{"title": "Biker always stop at pedestrians walkway at traffic light \ud83d\ude05 police there also never tegur.", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18th6u5/biker_always_stop_at_pedestrians_walkway_at/", "num_comment": 44, "flairlabel": ["Culture"], "comments": [["police sendiri pun blocking the pedestrian walkway", "Betul \ud83d\ude05 bad culture", "They're all just lepak over there", "Guess where does the police cut out from ?"], ["Our traffic laws will never work if motorbikes can still do whatever they want. At least once a day I'm face to face with a motor going the wrong way.", "We'll always be a developing nation and not a developed nation"], ["Pedestrians are the lowest caste here, no doubt"], ["Actually king of the road is not Myvi but motorbikes coz traffic laws somehow not applies to them and they are immune to it anyway", "Against traffic. Go wrong way \ud83d\ude13", "Just look at those Shopee food, food panda and grab", "Memang teruk. Hit my car because they go wrong way", "Later show you wallet only got rm10 \u2026. \u201cTolong bang \u2026 tak Ada duit\u201d", "This is standard script \ud83d\ude0e"], ["usj 7?", "USJ1. Happen every morning. As the cross bridge been removed for construction then pedestrians can only walk on the road, but biker less considerate \ud83d\ude05", "I was wondering when tf did the bridge collapsed. They removed it to construct what?", "Will build bridge from Mydin direct to kewajipan. And bridge to kesas. \ud83d\udc4d\ud83c\udffb", "Gg traffic going to be even more horrible during the construction phase", "Yes. Expected. But for better future then have to tahan\ud83e\udd72", "Another flyover. Supposedly to ease congestion.", "That bridge been closed off for almost a year because of safety issues. If not mistaken some tiles fell onto traffic below.", "This is new", "You stay USJ1 ? Sometime when traffic police there to guide the traffic will be more worst than without them. \ud83d\ude13"], ["I hate bikers, they just do whatever they want and hon you like they own the road.", "I got my bike license this year, and I truly want to respect the law, but if I stand behind cars at traffic lights, cars bully me. If I respect the speed limit, cars tailgate me. If I stop before the white line, cars pushes me. The only way I have to stay alive on the road is defensive driving."], ["Polis semua tak boleh pakai.", "I know that intersection. They're actually working. Or to be precise, they're on standby. That's a very jam area daily and when it becomes unbearable at a certain time (before work and after work), they take over from the traffic lights.\nTraffic police don't wait in office until traffic jam happens and then spend 15-20 minutes to arrive there. They're on standby nearby so that when start jam, they can enter immediately.", "Sometimes traffic police is seen but sometimes not. I don\u2019t get it why they don\u2019t just fix the traffic timing instead?"], ["in Malaysia bikes > everything else"], ["fun fact, did you know that it's also illegal for motorcyclists to ride on the emergency lane? but they all don't give a rats ass and laugh in the face of \"laws\"", "Why you don't understand their plight and how much they suffer having to ride bikes... why can't you give them this leeway ?? /s\nBasically more or less the argument I see often when people defend motorcycles."], ["Polis busy talking la."], ["If they are on duty, they can actually park wherever they want. If they are on duty la. If they just decide to lepak there for no reason, then its wrong."], ["Not a good PR pic for the team"], ["Damn here in the morning confirm jam\ud83d\ude2d", "Been there every morning can confirm. Even more worse when there\u2019s traffic blocking the yellow boxes right at the middle of intersection"], ["I\u2019m quite sure our polis actually don\u2019t know shit about our own law. They are only being told to do certain jobs, and that\u2019s all they will do. Otherwise, \u201cwhy bother?\u201d", "Maybe some of them yes."], ["USJ 7 moment"], ["Lmao, and look at their bellies, i thought they have bmi requirements??"]]}
{"title": "The Joint Management Body of AraGreens Residences has obtained a judgment against HSB Development for breach of duty of care for common property defects, Malaysiakini reports. The ruling has set a precedent for JMBs to hold developers accountable.", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u2s5u/the_joint_management_body_of_aragreens_residences/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["Yes, deserve"]]}
{"title": "Uproar over govt move to tax traditional, complementary medicine", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u3asv/uproar_over_govt_move_to_tax_traditional/", "num_comment": 3, "flairlabel": ["Economy & Finance"], "comments": [["\u201cAccording to my understanding, Western medicine and modern medicine are not subject to any taxation, so why are TCM services subject to taxes? This is clearly unfair and unreasonable to TCM practitioners and patients.\u201d\nComparing 'traditional' and 'complementary' medicines in any way as if it is as effective as 'Western' medicine is laughable, especially since the recent pandemic has shown in real time that 'Western' medicine such as vaccines and boosters have been far more effective at saving lives than whatever nonsense 'traditional' herbal remedies and the like can possibly offer.\nI welcome the government's move to tax these 'alternative medicine', and I hope this drive people to instead use actually effective evidence-based medicine than these medical quackery.\nPeople should be free to choose whatever method of healthcare they want, but stipulate that people must be informed as to the safety and efficacy of whatever method they choose. People who choose alternative medicine may think they are choosing a safe, effective medicine, while they may only be getting quack remedies. Grapefruit seed extract is an example of quackery when multiple studies demonstrate its universal antimicrobial effect is due to synthetic antimicrobial contamination.\nThose who have had success with one alternative therapy for a minor ailment may be convinced of its efficacy and persuaded to extrapolate that success to some other alternative therapy for a more serious, possibly life-threatening illness. For this reason, critics contend that therapies that rely on the placebo effect to define success are very dangerous. Scientifically unsupported health practices can lead individuals to forgo effective treatments and this can be referred to as \u201copportunity cost\u201d. Individuals who spend large amounts of time and money on ineffective treatments may be left with precious little of either, and may forfeit the opportunity to obtain treatments that could be more helpful. More research must be undertaken to prove the effectiveness of complimentary therapies before they can be incorporated in formal medical practice. Sufficient evidence is required for biological or clinical plausibility in order to justify the investment of time and energy in exploring the merits of alternative medicine. After all, human life is precious and no chances can be taken to comprise the health of any individual.\nComplementary and Alternative Healthcare: Is it Evidence-based?", "When I got covid a few months after getting the second shot, taking Lianhua Qingwen really help me to cope with the fever.\nRingworm is very nasty skin infection. Using a chinese med that I bought from shopee really help someone I know with this problem (she has tried many type of meds from pharmacy & doctors but with no success, sometimes the infection gone for a while but always come back). That Chinese med is really good for many types of skin diseases too.\nA rm1 lice treatment for my cats that bought from shoppee is as good as than rm50 western one. Plus, the lice didn't come back after a few weeks.\nTaking ashwaganda continuously for two months help me lowering my bp significantly compare to years of taking doctor's prescribed meds.\nSo, my point is not all western medicine is good & not all traditional medicine is snake oil."], ["Prosecute corrupted people?\nGov : Nope\nattempt to introduce policy to reduce corruption?\nGov : Nope\nSlowly cut subsidy to cut expenses, keep inflation managable?\nGov : Nope, lets put target subsidy that hurt M40/T20 salary earn more than a factory owner that make B40 product.\nGov : also to keep our debt managable, we will raise tax instead."]]}
{"title": "'Why Him But Not Me?'- Tony Fernandes Asks Why Cosplayer Can Go Shirtless But Not Him", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18tios4/why_him_but_not_me_tony_fernandes_asks_why/", "num_comment": 31, "flairlabel": [], "comments": [["Users often report submissions from this site and ask us to ban it for sensationalised articles. At /r/Malaysia, we oppose blanket banning any news source. Readers have a responsibility to be skeptical, check sources, and comment on any flaws.\nYou can help improve this thread by linking to media that verifies or questions this article's claims. Your link could help readers better understand this issue. If you do find evidence that this article or its title are false or misleading, contact the moderators who will review it.\nI am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns."], ["Unrelated, but the way this post is written is giving AI vibes", "Weirdkaya is a content farm after all"], ["If he cosplayed as a \"shirtless out of touch CEO\" then he gets a pass?\nNO.\nWHY NOT ??!!\nHe's not cosplaying..."], ["One is a cosplayer.\nOne is an out of touch guy thinking he's being \"one of the people\" with his antics. You are not \"one of the people\" Tony."], ["Ahh the narcissist realized he has been out of the media spotlight for 3 whole days and had to immidiate rectify it."], ["because he is not doing it at the workplace!"], ["I think what's most impressive is Tony knows the plot of JJK", "even working in the phrase Shibuya Incident with capitals in the right places. foooo JJK - Msia lovestory is just heartwarming!"], ["Sorry to say, ugly people dont get the free nips pass.", "Mutahar in one video:"], ["I'm not interested in seeing some hanging man tits.", "Reminds me of this movie character who infamously says \"Luuk at mah....sexxeh tit-ess.....\". Anyone wanna take a guess?"], ["No one wants to see your gut Tony."], ["Because Tony, throughout heaven and earth he alone is the honored one."], ["Because youre fat af tony"], ["Sexual empowerment Vs put on a shirt"], ["if i was airasia pilot,id def fly topless now"], ["Because he is HIM!"], ["Boobs or titties are not allowed, we don't want our ladies walking around topless", "Freethenipple"], ["Because you are ugly and nasty, and get naked to get brownie points for no reason ?"], ["He is right. As much as you love hating on him"], ["because u r fat fcuk capitalism"], ["Yes you may if you paint yourself pink like BUU :26554:"], ["Does AirAsia not have any goddamn HR? What a nightmare of a boss to have"], ["Money cant buy u class....go get fit and make it worth ur korean wife"], ["Jfc this has gotta be the dumbest thing I've read today \ud83d\ude2d"], ["Trying too hard to stay in the news \ud83e\udd2d"], ["<image>"], ["I don't think he realises what dumb of a statement he put out when he wrote it."]]}