This could be attributed to acceptance of the social contract, of which one historian wrote: "At the elite level, non-Malays recognized that Malays were politically superior by virtue of their indigenous status and that the Malaysian polity would have a Malay character ...
Hal ini dapat disebabkan oleh penerimaan kontrak sosial yang salah seorang sejarahwan menulis: "Pada tingkat elit, kaum non-Melayu mengakui bahwa kaum Melayu secara politik superior karena status penduduk asli mereka dan bahwa susunan pemerintahan Malaysia memiliki karakter Melayu ...