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64 Twenty Years of Domestic Service: A Malaysian Chinese Woman in Change Jocelyn Armstrong* The Malaysian Chinese life documented in this paper takes place in the modern post- war period of Malaysia, after 1946. It is a time of rapid modernization and economic development to the point where Malaysia has become, after Singapore, the most developed nation in the region. Events of World War II and its aftermath significantly altered the organization of Malaysian society. One of the more obvious and influential changes was much more contact and interaction among members of the country's three major ethnic groups - the indigenous Malays who made up about 50 per cent of the population, the immigrant Chinese (35 per cent) and the immigrant Indian (10 per cent) communities. For a complex of reasons, out of the increased contact came a general worsening of relations among the groups, and between Malays and Chinese in particular. Conflict in the political arena and competitive economic interests were the primary contemporary causes but they were underscored and fuelled by marked differences in language, religion and general lifestyle. Independence was planned but the British government's insistence on evidence of "racial harmony" and national unity as
Asian Journal of Social Science – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1996
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