Those of you who believe it is the obligation of government to regulate all racial and ethnic markets to ensure a politically correct distribution of goods and services, rejoice! You are not alone. You have friends in Malaysia.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A Malaysian think-tank director resigned on Wednesday after the center retracted a study that sparked a furor among majority ethnic Malays who feared it may bolster arguments to do away with a decades-old system of privileges.
The recent study by the independent Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute titled Corporate Equity Distribution: Past Trends and Future Policies estimated that Malays owned as much as 45 percent of the total equity of the stock market.
As such, it said an affirmative action policy that gives Malays special privileges in areas such as government jobs, housing, bank loans and contracts to help them catch up with the wealthier minority Chinese may be misplaced.
Back home in this country Asians have often been called (see here) the New Jews, but to put things in the more appealing (to liberals) Malay context, the soon-to-be majority minorities should perhaps be called the New Malays and the soon-to-be minority whites should be called the New Chinese.
