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The diversity of naming forms adopted by Chinese Muslims shows the complexity of the community and the flexiblility ot their identities depending on the situation. The choice of names for their children also reflect Chinese Muslim tendencies whether to maintain their “Chineseness??? to the next generation or not. Besides this, the use of Chinese Muslim names as ethnic and religion markers is flexible and can shift when the situation and actors changed. Publication: 4th International Malaysian Studies Conference; 3-5 August 2004, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi.  Author: Hew, Wai Weng. [Download]

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The plight of the Malay-Muslims in southern Thailand is no different from the appeal of non-Malay and non-Muslim minorities in Malaysia and Indonesia: "Listen to us, respect us, recognise our culture, language and identity. And then we will be citizens like any other." Farish Noor reports for Aliran from southern Thailand.  Author 1 Farish Noor.  Publication: Aliran, 28 May 2008.  [Download]
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The article elaborates the status of Malay language as national language that unites as well as divides the nation. Article written in Malay. Publication: 4th International Malaysian Studies Conference; 3-5 August 2004, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi. Author: Zulkifley Hamid.  [Download]

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The paper has been published in Suomen Antropologi, Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. Vol. 32, Nr. 3, Autumn 2007 (pp. 62-74) and prepared as part of a research project on “Managing Cultural Diversity – Construction of Ethnicity in Malaysia and Sri Lanka???, funded by the Academy of Finland (2005-2010). This paper examines the birth, survival and contemporary reproduction of racial categories in Malaysia and Sri Lanka. The topic is approached from two angles. First, racial categories are analyzed as part and parcel of the colonial narrative and, secondly, as a building block of the national narrative. Author: Timo Kortteinen (Academy Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland) [Download]
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