Page 58 - (SSF1033) INTRODUCTION TO MALAYSIAN SOCIAL HISTORY

The creation of 'Malay'

Ethnicity

Great diversity in Southeast Asia

Malay is the language of regional

trade

With the arrival of the Portuguese,

Dutch and English was a census and

classification of groups by

background (region of origin,

religion and 'ethnic')

British colonial practice at a high

level of migration has created a

plural society / plural Malaya /

Malaysia.