Tag Archives: melayu

Bila Mitos Malas Bermula | Episod 16

Apakah dinyatakan oleh penjajah dalam rekod sejarah tentang Melayu malas? Bilakah mitos bermula? Apakah keadaan masyarakat Melayu pada peringkat awal penjajahan?  Dengarlah jawapan Syed Hussein Alatas.

Mitos Melayu Malas, Intro | Episod 15

Dari mana datang persepsi bahawa Melayu satu bangsa yang malas? Bolehkah sesuatu yang kerap diulang lama-lama menjadi haqiqat? Teman anda yang setia ini mencuba jawab soalan ini dan lain lagi yang berkait dengan mitos melayu malas, berdasar buku The Myth of the Lazy Native by Syed Hussein Alatas.

Episod 8: Anak Anak Kita

Sempena Hari Merdeka, mari kita baca – bukan nyanyi ye – lagu M. Nasir serta terjemahan yang sentuh hal-hal kemerdekaan dan kebebasan secara halus dan puitis. Anak Anak Kita by M. Nasir  Anak-anak kitakah yang berlari telanjang Di bawah mentari sumbing Sambil bernyanyi lagu Ketakutan hari-hari ini   Anak-anak kitakah yang memikul beban Kesilapan kita […]

Myth of the Lazy Native – Review

An anti-colonial short-course for Malaysians in one volume. The Myth of the Lazy Native was an influential book in post-colonial studies, published a year before Edward Said’s Orientalism[1]. Syed Hussein Alatas trawls through centuries of original sources to find the sources of the persistent idea that Malays, and other native peoples, are lazy. Some of […]

Di dalam kuali bertemu juga

  Garam di laut, asam di darat Di dalam kuali bertemu juga — Limes* from dry land, salt from the sea In the pot may meet eventually After ten years, I’ll finally be returning to the motherland with my whole family.  Five of my children have never set foot in the US before.  Of all […]

Mawlid Parade

12 Rabi’ul Awwal, the day our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saws) was born, is a national holiday in Malaysia as it is in every muslim country on earth except one. In the city of Kuching, Sarawak, to where I had just moved from America, there was to be a large parade that morning as there is […]