Perception survey of racial tolerance in Kuala Menggatal / Zaibah M. Wasnin

Concern about multiracial country as Malaysia, a lot of issues arises regarding
to this matter. Inter-marriages is one of the issues that always been a problem by
spouse with different races or ethnic. The background of Malaysia's multiracial
was shown from the Stone Age where the arrival of immigrants in Borneo and
Peninsular Malaysia. "[m]alayness, is being a bumiputera in Malaysia. The
constitution specifies that Malay habitually speaks Malay, is a Muslim, and
practices the Malay culture. Thus, two features of being Malay are cultural.
Ethnicity is the key to any discussion of identity in Malaysia. Malays are the
product of two waves of migration from Yunnan in China. Stone Age migrants left
traces of their culture in Peninsular Malaya and crossed the then land bridge to
Borneo. Tribal elements continue to exist in the jungles and mountains of the
peninsula, and their descendants were once known collectively as the 'Wild Men
of Borneo' they are known as the Kadazan, the Dusun in Borneo and are
bumiputera also." (Ronald D. Palme, 2007)