What Does ‘Malay’ Mean in Singapore? - Just Saying Episode 121

In Singapore, we grow up learning about race - Chinese, Malay, Indian, Others. But how many of us actually know where these ideas came from? In this episode of Just Saying, we sit down with Dr Faizah Zakaria, a scholar of Southeast Asian and Malay Studies, to talk about the Malay community in Singapore - what it was before modern Singapore, how colonialism changed the way race was defined, and what being “Malay” looks like today. 01:05 - What Did Malay Mean Before Independence? 10:46 - Boyanese People 15:05 - How Did The British Categorize Us? 17:58 - Peranakan People 24:43 - Singapore Is Malay Land 28:24 - What Jobs Did Malays Tradionally Have? 41:25 - Malay People In Modern Singapore 01:04:54 - Are Malays Judged Differently When It Comes To Success? Listen To Us On Spotify : Just Saying https://open.spotify.com/show/0Pqc6WH... Just Parenthings https://open.spotify.com/show/26FgiKQ... Just Saying Crew: Dew Francis -   / dewdropzz   Business Enquiries : thebackstagebunch@gushcloudtalent.com