King-makers or losers?


Minority groups always have this sense of persecution and losing out, of being victims and of being marginalised. Fui Soong

Islamisation and the Chinese school system are possibly the two single-most important factors causing the Malays and Chinese to cling to their own respective communal comfort zone.

SIZE matters in politics and the Chinese, or at least the intelligentsia, know that the numbers do not favour them.

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