Malays (Malay: Orang Melayu, Jawi: أورڠ ملايو) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations — areas that are collectively known as the Malay world.These locations are today part of the countries of Malaysia, Indonesia (eastern and southern Sumatra, Bangka Belitung ...

The Malays group included other natives of the Malay archipelago, the Europeans included Americans, the Indians would be people from the Indian subcontinent including what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh. In 1901, the total population of Singapore was 228,555, with 15.8% Malays, 71.8% Chinese, 7.8% Indians, and 3.5% Europeans and Eurasians. The ...

Malay Singaporeans (Malay: Melayu Singapura, Jawi: ملايو سيڠاڤورا) are a local ethnic group in Singapore.Recognised as the indigenous people of the country, the group is defined as Singaporean who is of Malay ethnicity or, whose ancestry originates from the Malay world. Local Malay Singaporeans constitute 15% of the country's citizens, making them the second largest …

Malays should be assisted to attain parity with non-Malays to forge a united Malayan Nation of equals." ... (US Department of State), under the heading "Ethnic Preferences", part of a paragraph succinctly describes the reality of such Bumiputra policy as follows:"Many of the preference policies are opaque, with details of implementation largely ...

The concept of a Malay race was originally proposed by the German physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), and classified as a brown race. Malay is a loose term used in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe the Austronesian peoples.. Since Blumenbach, many anthropologists have rejected his theory of five races, citing the enormous complexity of …

Terms used in Article 153 to categorise people ('Malays', 'natives') are defined in Articles 160 (English · Malay) and 161a (English · Malay). Perhaps unintuitively, only "a person who professes the religion of Islam" may be a 'Malay' (orang Melayu) in the sense of the constitution (for other contexts, see the article at Malays (ethnic group)).

Oct 22, 2022 · This referred to a wave of ethnic Malay voters who voted for PH, and that reportedly proved to be the tipping point which ended BN’s 60-year reign in government. Related:

Malaysian Chinese (simplified Chinese: 马来西亚华人; traditional Chinese: 馬來西亞華人; Malay: Orang Cina Malaysia), alternatively Chinese Malaysians, are Malaysian citizens of Chinese descent. They form the second largest ethnic group after the Malay majority constituting 22.4% of the Malaysian population. Most of them are descendants of Southern Chinese immigrants who …

Malaysia (/ m ə ˈ l eɪ z i ə,-ʒ ə / mə-LAY-zee-ə, -⁠zhə; Malay: ) is a country in Southeast Asia.The federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia.Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with Thailand and maritime …

Orang Ulu is an ethnic group in Sarawak. The various Orang Ulu groups together make up 4.8% of Sarawak's population. The phrase Orang Ulu means upriver people and is a term used to collectively describe the numerous tribes that live upriver in Sarawak's vast interior. Such groups include the major Kayan and Kenyah tribes, and the smaller neighbouring groups of the …