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- noun A citizen of
Malaysia having indigenousMalay ancestry
Etymologies
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Though the Malays and other indigenous peoples, together known as bumiputra in Malay, make up about 60% of the population, they have traditionally been poorer than the Chinese and Indian immigrants, who have long dominated the nation's business and trade.
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Though the Malays and other indigenous peoples, together known as bumiputra in Malay, make up about 60% of the population, they have traditionally been poorer than the Chinese and Indian immigrants, who have long dominated the nation's business and trade.
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Though the Malays and other indigenous peoples, together known as bumiputra in Malay, make up about 60% of the population, they have traditionally been poorer than the Chinese and Indian immigrants, who have long dominated the nation's business and trade.
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Though the Malays and other indigenous peoples, together known as bumiputra in Malay, make up about 60% of the population, they have traditionally been poorer than the Chinese and Indian immigrants, who have long dominated the nation's business and trade.
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The Malay and indigenous groups, collectively known as bumiputra, or sons of the soil, are regarded as economically disadvantaged and have benefited from a range of policies intended to increase their prosperity relative to the ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities, who account for about 34 per cent of the population.
Planet Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim 2010
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It is being compared with Malaysia ` s controversial "bumiputra" laws that reserve whole sections of national life for the majority
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The increasingly militant campaign is showing close parallels with Malaysia's "bumiputra" policies, often criticised as
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The increasingly militant campaign is showing close parallels with Malaysia's "bumiputra" policies, often criticised as
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Malaysia has long be depending much of the Indonesians in making up their "bumiputra" of today.
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Malaysia has long be depending much of the Indonesians in making up their "bumiputra" of today.
Search for "anxiety" 2010
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