Racism in Malaysia

This is an excerpt from the finding of telephone survey by New Straits Times on 1200 respondents which confirm that racism runs deep in Malaysia.

Negative stereotyping is well entrenched:

• 58 percent of Malays, 63 percent of Chinese and 43 percent of Indians polled agreed that Malays are generally lazy.
• 78 percent of Malays, 60 percent of Chinese and 40 percent of Indians think the Chinese are greedy.

• 60 percent of Malays, 58 percent of Chinese and 20 percent of Indians believe that Indians cannot be trusted

The findings confirm my own gut feel about the state of ethnic relations in Malaysia.