Word: malays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predominantly Buddhist, although there are two or three exceptional Shinto cult objects. The stylistic range is also very broad. Some of the pieces are, in essence, conventional religious decoration -like the spectacular head of a horned dragon (see color page), its jaws rippling like the blade of a Malay kris, which was carried on a lance to repel evil spirits during religious processions in Nara, near Kyoto. Other sculptures are of an intense and archaic severity, like the votive dolls found in 3rd century tombs in what had been the Chinese kingdom of Ch'u. Still other pieces, such...
Your review wallah has gone and pulled a howler. When one has knocked about the federated Malay States for donkeys' years, as one has, one learns that "stengah" means a small whisky and water, nothing more, nothing less. Any chappie askin' for a "gin stengah" at the Yellow Dog in K.L. would be hooted off the verandah before you could say knife...
While there have been signs of unrest among workers, one disadvantaged group is rarely heard about. They are the Malays, Singapore's indigenous population who now comprise 15 per cent of the population, and are systematically discriminated against in education and employment, despite the existence of "special privileges" which go only to a few. Malay youth are never called up to serve in the armed forces, for example--a supposedly compulsory duty--and hence are denied advantages in employment and other privileges which go to national servicemen. They perform many of the society's more menial functions...
...Survival" is one of the government's favorite words, as are "pragmatism" and "ruggedness." It continually impresses upon the people of Singapore their isolation and uniqueness as a tiny overcrowded island of predominantly Chinese people in a Southeast Asia which is predominantly Malay and Indonesian, thus playing on racial fears and chauvinism to win a measure of nationalistic support. A "garrison state mentality" is inculcated in the manner of Israel, which is a conscious model to those who call themselves "nation builders." The mind-set is reinforced by compulsory military service for males in an armed forces which receives...
THERE's a man called The Pug-Nosed Man who appears one day in a bar and speaks only in interrogative sentences, except for his first and last lines. There's a pimp called Baboon who operates out of a Chinese flophouse and acts like a henchman for a Malay lumber dealer who tries to bribe a librarian to say the book he wants to borrow is a good one. A Salvation Army preacher (name unknown) whose skin is so thick "it bends anything you stick into it" lets a man spit in his face as a condition...