Wednesday, October 26, 2011
From a Chinese Malaysian....
Diterima
melalui e-mail ini oleh W.Mokhtar ‘Lee pada 24 Oktober 2011. W.M’Lee (Dave Li) mengambil kesempatan menterjemahkan ke dalam
Bahasa Malaysia. Selamat membaca.
Subject:
MCA, I want to vote for PAS!" – Aku nak pilih
PAS !!
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
DIPPED IN THE AMBIGUITY......
DUMC - Jais: Bishop Troubled by Sultan's Statement
Terence Nett Oct 1
Catholic Bishop Paul Tan Chee Ing described the statement from the Sultan of Selangor on the Selangor Islamic Affairs Department (Jais) report on alleged proselytisation of Muslims by Christians at the Damansara Utama Methodist Centre last August as “dipped in the ambiguity that would make wanton accusations against Christians no more difficult in the future than it is now.”
“Begging the Tuanku’s pardon, how is it possible to assert that there were attempts to deviate the faith of Muslim attendees at the dinner function at the DUMC but there is, then, not sufficient evidence to prefer charges,” queried the titular head of Catholics in the Malacca-Johor diocese, in an immediate response to a statement on the matter issued today by the Sultan.
“If there is not enough evidence, there ought to be no imputation of wrongdoing – it’s as simple as that!” exclaimed Tan (above), who is concurrently president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia.
“As it stands now, the Sultan’s statement paints the Christian organisers of the dinner function as having been given a discharge not amounting to acquittal from accusations that they proselytised to Muslims,” he asserted.
“I would have much preferred no statement at all to one that is neither here nor there,” offered the Jesuit-trained prelate. "Christians have waited patiently for exoneration from false accusations by people whose intent is to grandstand on behalf of their losing causes,” said the bishop.
“It’s a good thing the general election is imminent, because there seems to be no let-up in this ugly campaign of innuendo and insinuation against Christians, so that the ballot box becomes our only recourse from persecution by vile slander,” he concluded.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
PERANAKAN (BABA-NYONYAS)
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This article contains Chinese text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters.
Peranakan (Straits Chinese)
峇峇娘惹
土生華人
Total population
7,000,000 (estimates)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia
Languages
Chinese languages, Malay, Indonesian
Religion
Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Taoism
Related ethnic groups
Chinese people in Southeast Asia
Peranakan
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
峇峇娘惹
Simplified Chinese
峇峇娘惹
[show]Transcriptions
Malay name
Malay
Peranakan/Cina Benteng/Kiau-Seng
Peranakan Chinese and Baba-Nyonya are terms used for the descendants of late 15th and 16th-century Chinese immigrants to the Indonesian archipelago of Nusantara during the Colonial era.
Members of this community in Melaka address themselves as "Nyonya Baba" instead of "Baba-Nyonya". Nyonya is the term for the ladies and Baba for the gentlemen. It applies especially to the ethnic Chinese populations of the British Straits Settlements of Malaya and the Dutch-controlled island of Java and other locations, who have adopted partially or in full Nusantara customs to be somewhat assimilated into the local communities. They were the elites of Singapore, more loyal to the British than to China. Most have lived for generations along the straits of Malacca and not all intermarried with the local Native Indonesians and Malays. They were usually traders, the middleman of the British and the Chinese, or the Chinese and Malays, or vice versa because they were mostly English educated. Because of this, they almost always had the ability to speak two or more languages. In later generations, some lost the ability to speak Chinese as they became assimilated to the Malay Peninsula's culture and started to speak Malay fluently as a first or second language.
While the term Peranakan is most commonly used among the ethnic Chinese for those of Chinese descent also known as Straits Chinese (土生華人; named after the Straits Settlements), there are also other, comparatively small Peranakan communities, such as Indian Hindu Peranakans (Chitty), Indian Muslim Peranakans (Jawi Pekan) (Jawi being the Javanised Arabic script,[2] Pekan a colloquial contraction of Peranakan[2]) and Eurasian Peranakans (Kristang[2]) (Kristang = Christians).[2][3] The group has parallels to the Cambodian Hokkien, who are descendants of Hoklo Chinese. They maintained their culture partially despite their native language gradually disappearing a few generations after settlement.[4
This article contains Chinese text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters.
Peranakan (Straits Chinese)
峇峇娘惹
土生華人
Total population
7,000,000 (estimates)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia
Languages
Chinese languages, Malay, Indonesian
Religion
Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Taoism
Related ethnic groups
Chinese people in Southeast Asia
Peranakan
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
峇峇娘惹
Simplified Chinese
峇峇娘惹
[show]Transcriptions
Malay name
Malay
Peranakan/Cina Benteng/Kiau-Seng
Peranakan Chinese and Baba-Nyonya are terms used for the descendants of late 15th and 16th-century Chinese immigrants to the Indonesian archipelago of Nusantara during the Colonial era.
Members of this community in Melaka address themselves as "Nyonya Baba" instead of "Baba-Nyonya". Nyonya is the term for the ladies and Baba for the gentlemen. It applies especially to the ethnic Chinese populations of the British Straits Settlements of Malaya and the Dutch-controlled island of Java and other locations, who have adopted partially or in full Nusantara customs to be somewhat assimilated into the local communities. They were the elites of Singapore, more loyal to the British than to China. Most have lived for generations along the straits of Malacca and not all intermarried with the local Native Indonesians and Malays. They were usually traders, the middleman of the British and the Chinese, or the Chinese and Malays, or vice versa because they were mostly English educated. Because of this, they almost always had the ability to speak two or more languages. In later generations, some lost the ability to speak Chinese as they became assimilated to the Malay Peninsula's culture and started to speak Malay fluently as a first or second language.
While the term Peranakan is most commonly used among the ethnic Chinese for those of Chinese descent also known as Straits Chinese (土生華人; named after the Straits Settlements), there are also other, comparatively small Peranakan communities, such as Indian Hindu Peranakans (Chitty), Indian Muslim Peranakans (Jawi Pekan) (Jawi being the Javanised Arabic script,[2] Pekan a colloquial contraction of Peranakan[2]) and Eurasian Peranakans (Kristang[2]) (Kristang = Christians).[2][3] The group has parallels to the Cambodian Hokkien, who are descendants of Hoklo Chinese. They maintained their culture partially despite their native language gradually disappearing a few generations after settlement.[4
Sunday, October 2, 2011
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