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Chinese students with Grade 1 in MCE could proceed to do sixth form. As nature would have it, the Chinese students outshone the Malays year-in year-out. Naturally, these children - who were not well-taught by their parents to respect mankind, did not do well in schools. To these children, all chinese are kapir, apek or cino without they realizing the meanings. In front, the Malays proclaimed them as brothers, but behind these Malays taught their children to call these cina peranakan Kelantan by derogatory names such as kapir, apek, cino. Like the popular saying, manis di mulut, busuk di perut. The Malays, or rather the kampong Malays did not really accept them. To them, being a cina perakanan Kelantan brings no gains but more pains. To them, it is not cool to be a cina peranakan Kelantan.ģrd factor: They are being marginalized again and again. Nowadays, the generations younger than mine are ashamed if associated with Cina perakanan Kelantan. They sent their children to Chinese schools, though distance and transportation were big obstacles. They realized that they had to become more Chinese to enjoy more of the riches of the Chinese. They realized they could not enjoy the special privileges of the Malays. To rid themselves of the no-win situation, the younger generations realized that they had to become more "Chinese" than their fathers or grandfathershow to get out of the doldrums. They can't get to enjoy the special privileges of the Malays and they don't have the riches of the Chinese.Ģnd factor: They are being marginalized again. And they (chinese peranakan) don't get to enjoy the special privileges. To the Government, they are Chinese and Chinese don't get to enjoy all those. They don't enjoy the special privileges reserved for Malays. But the sad thing is that they are not Malays. One would be forgiven to pass them off as Malays. Though Chinese, they live exactly like Malays - using hand to eat, eat budu and ulam, wear kain lepas (headgear), rear lifestocks, do farming and mingled with the Malays in the Malay community. I have 3 factors to back my extinction theory. The whole wide world would not even know of their existence. After they are gone, the Cina peranakan Kelantan will go down in history. Or may be a smaller group - 10 - 15 years younger than me to carry on the legacy. I still have my younger brothers and sisters.
8 year longer than the world's average life span of 67. Maybe I will live another 25 years until age 75, i.e. Being 50 this year, how much longer can I live? 20, 25 or 30 years. Why 30 - 40 years? Because I am the last generation of the so-called Cina peranakan Kelantan. Though their Chinese surnames are maintained, many have taken the Malay names or are being called by the Malay names.īut this unfortunate group of people will perish in history - in 30 - 40 years to come. Compounded by their tanned skin, they look every inch like the Malays. Since they don't speak Mandarin, Hakka or Cantonese, they feel out of place among the "real" or more "genuine" Chinese. They are not Malays and naturally would not be accepted as bumiputras. Through the process of assimilation, they have lost their identity. The only Chinese dialect they speak is Hokkien - though smuttering Hokkien. They speak perfect bahasa Kelate instead of Mandarin, Hakka or Cantonese. They attended English or Malay schools instead of the chinese schools. I always lament the future of a small group of Kelantanese chinese, whose forefathers landed in this country more than 250 years ago - much longer than many current crop of so-called Malaysians.