Becoming a Malay....a reply.

It never fails...every time I write about being a Malay, I get messages sent to me privately reminding me that I am talking down my own race. What good, they ask me, will it do to the Malays to have me write about them in such a derogatory manner?

Jesus Christ...I had to go look up what "derogatory" means: insulting or disrespectful....so in the article that I wrote, "Becoming a Malay" I was insulting and being disrespectful to the Malays? How sensitive are these Malays?

The article is about me and my journey to the time and place when being a Malay became a conscious decision made for me because of the circumstances I was in. I am never embarrassed about being a Malay. It is what other Malays do that has embarrassed. Enough said.