Malaysia är väl en utav dom få länderna i världen som tillämpar positiv diskrimination till fördel för den egna etniska befolkningen .
Beror väl på den oproportionella stora ekonomiska makt som finns bland den inhemska kinesiska befolkningen.
På 70'talet så resulterade detta i öppen konflikt mellan bumiputras & kineser.
Kollade vidare , det fungerade på liknande sätt redan under Britternas tid...
During British colonial rule, Malays were given certain privileges over their non-Malay counterparts, such as quotas for public scholarships and employment in the civil service. When the Federation of Malaya (West Malaysia) declared independence in 1957, its Constitution contained a provision called Article 153 that provided special rights for the Malays. The Reid Commission, which had drafted the Constitution, stated that "in due course the present preferences should be reduced and should ultimately cease." When Malaya merged with Singapore, Sabah, and Sarawak in 1963 to form the Federation of Malaysia, the new Constitution retained Article 153, and the definition of Bumiputra was expanded to include all the indigenous tribes of Sabah and Sarawak in East Malaysia. Due to increasingly strained relations between the federal and state governments, and a dispute over the special rights of Malays, Singapore separated from the Federation in 1965. [2]
The Reid Commission specified that the intent of Article 153 was to address the imbalance between the Chinese and Malays in terms of economic equity. In the period following Malaysian independence, however, the Bumiputra share of the economy did not substantially increase; as late as 1970, it was estimated that Bumiputras held only 2.4% of the economy, with the rest in Chinese and foreign hands. [3] Friction between the Malay and Chinese communities grew, reaching its peak in 1969 during the May 13 race riots.
