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Article: Minority report. (race relations in Malaysia) (column)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- January 9, 1988
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MINORITY REPORT.
Malaysia is a country that most Westerners know about, if they know about it at all, through the lush novels of Anthony Burgess and Paul Theroux. In the sort of "roundup' coverage offered by the newspapers, it features either as an example of "confessional diversity sharing in fruits of harmony' or as "another Asian economic miracle' where free enterprise has triumphed over ideology. This one-dimensional accounting has drained the interest from a society that actually played quite a significant part in evolving our view of events. It was in the Malay Peninsula that the British Army defeated a tenacious postwar Communist insurgency, isolating the ...