By: Ashikin
18.4.2020
Do we ever heard about English people labelled Malay people as a lazy nation during back time before our Independence day? Yeah we've heard that enough right? Do you think that Malay people is lazy? Seriously, I don't think so.
According to Hasanuddin Yusof (2020), the British who came to Malaya, they realized that the Malays were diligent and ' taboo to be silent '.
They see the Malays in the forest to find the roots of wood, the sea, seeking fish, trek through the river, finding ore and dropping into paddy fields.
Let the pictures talk:
The Malays are great and brave in the hunting of animals in forests such as tigers. Credit photos: FB Malay Club Penang
The Malays are undergoing paddy fields using their own equipment. Credit photos: FB Kelab Melayu Pulau Pinang
The Malays were running into River & Sea to find fish using boat. Credit photos: FB Kelab Melayu Pulau Pinang
The Malays were brave, strong, empowered in the hunting of animals in the woods. The Malays were posing with buffaloes in the woods. Credit photo: FB Kelab Melayu Pulau Pinang
The Malays were collecting woods. Credit Photo: FB Kelab Melayu Pulau Pinang
The Malays were brave, strong, empowered in the hunting of animals; Tigers in the woods. Credit Photo: FB Kelab Melayu Pulau Pinang.
The Malays became a rough labor in making the railway. Credit Photo: FB Kelab Melayu Pulau Pinang
The Malays tapping rubber trees. Credit Photo: FB Kelab Melayu Pulau Pinang
The Malays were running into River. Credit photos: FB Kelab Melayu Pulau Pinang
The Malays; The Dignitaries of Pahang dress up the Tengkolok of the ACEH, besides the style of a 1900. Picture of the National Museum of Malaysia. Credit Photo from: FB Kelab Melayu Pulau Pinang
The Malays (children) Hunt and take pictures with the animals; Crocodile. Credit Photo: FB Kelab Melayu Pulau Pinang
The Malays business in selling coffee for a living. Credit Photo: FB Kelab Melayu Pulau Pinang
The free time at home, the Malays; swung, broiler, kneeing the cloth and knitting his nets. The night time, they goes to mosques, listening to Quran and reading Yasin. It is diligent and full of daily activities. All of these; English people see and be aware.
If we read the study of English researchers on Malay such as Crawfurd, Marsden, Raffles, Gardner, Newbold, Woolley, Linehan, Wheatley and many others, it clearly showed that the Malay race was a diligent and creative nation.
But why are some English like Swettanham say that Malay is the race of the lazy? It's just the answer, because Malays are reluctant to be English labourers, let alone want to shake English as in these pictures:
Do not forget, what is mentioned by Sherard Osborn, 1857 in Queda; Or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters about the Malays.
Sources: Quedah; or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters
Sources: Quedah; or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters; Malay Independence of Character. Page 279
Sources: Quedah; or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters; Malay Independence of Character. Page 279
“Like spaniels, the natives of the whole sea-board of the Indian Peninsula lick the hand that chastises them: not so the Orang-Malayan; and we English-men should be the first to honour a race who will not basely submit to abuse or tyranny”. (Osborn, 1857).
Sources: Quedah; or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters; Conclusion. Page 350
Sources: Quedah; or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters; Conclusion. Page 350
“Dear reader, farewell! If, in my attempt to give you a fair impression of the much-abused Malay, I have succeeded in removing from your mind one prejudice against that people, I shall not have written in vain, and I shall have done my part towards making you think, as I would fain do, that”. (Osborn, 1857).
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REFERENCES:
Osborn, S. (1857), Quedah; or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters. London: Spottiswoode and Co.
Hassanudin Yusof (2020), Kenapa Orang Inggeris Kata Orang Melayu Bangsa Pemalas?. Retrieved from: https://www.thepatriots.asia/kenapa-orang-inggeris-kata-melayu-bangsa-pemalas/