A report by the British Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in the early 1930s found that "the number of non-Malays who have adopted Malaya as their home is only a very small proportion of the whole population".
由英國殖民地副國務秘書提出的報告，在1930年代初發現「非馬來人將馬來亞視為自己家鄉的人數，只佔整體人口的一個很小比例」。