THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MALAYSIA 
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Welcome to countries facts so today in this Article I will show you the whole history of Malaysia and its people although you can still find many living more rural traditional lifestyles in the countryside with the local Malay Muslims being rather friendly tolerant and curious of outsiders in the city they are a cosmopolitan mix of many different cultures religions and nationalities having some of the most impressive cityscapes of not only anywhere in Southeast Asia but in the whole world despite seemingly being located in a rather isolated part of the world and the past couple thousand years the area that would become Malaysia was involved with foreign powers from all corners of Eurasia from Egypt China India Iran Europe and elsewhere being influenced by many different groups but also diffusing their culture throughout the world Malaysia is a rather odd country being divided between two main geographic divisions with the majority of the population living on Peninsular Malaysia just south of Thailand well the majority of the land areas to the east with a large enclave only Holland Borneo or Cala mantan as it is known in Indonesia however this is far less populated containing only 20% of the country's population with a handful of minor islands also scattered around as well the reason for this geographical anomaly is due to the fact that Malaysia is actually a bit of a conglomeration of multiple separate British colonies and former Dutch and Portuguese as well which were divided between what we're known as the Straits settlement a mostly Chinese inhabited area consisting of coastal regions such as Penang Malacca and Singapore yes Singapore was formerly a part of Malaysia as well as other areas of Peninsular Malaysia and the eastern territories on Borneo however the actual history of the Malay Nation dates back many centuries before the formation of the modern country we see today but as with virtually any other group we can trace back the steps of time and see just to inhabit this land before the modern Malays the previous inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula are referred to as the proto Malays a diverse austroasiatic speaking bunch who are most likely the result southern migration from Indochina who intermixed with the original Negrito or Australoid inhabitants of Southeast Asia so civically referred to as the orang asli or Asli UNS literally meaning native or indigenous mountains in malay the Asli uns are still located in the interior of Peninsular Malaysia and small numbers and as opposed to the Islamic Malays are mostly practitioners of their native animistic religions or Christianity and their culture and appearance is remarkably contrast from that of the majority being darker shorter and sharing facial features more reminiscent of Australian population some would say African but just like other Negrito populations and the Philippines and the Annamayya Islands they are very very genetically distinct from the African population perhaps even more so than the surrounding East Asian descended peoples that came after them the austronesians were the next major group to reach the Malay Peninsula but curiously the Malays actually originated on the nearby island of Sumatra rather than Peninsula Malaysia although they are closely related to other Austronesian populations on the island of Borneo the Malaya Kingdom was the first real Malaysian nation threatening out from Sumatra to mainland Asia and many of these surrounding islands such as bangka belitung and binh thanh although they never really conquered the densely forested interior of the peninsula leaving the isalean tribes to survive in isolation for over a thousand years in a recent video over the origin and history of the Thomas I discussed the massive historical influence of the Tamil people on Southeast Asia from thousands of years ago and the large Tamil influence on Austronesian Thai and Cambodian culture but even I didn't know at the time that the name of Malaysia itself possibly has a Tamil origin from the words My Lai or meaning mountainous land although it is contested whether this is the actual word or not during this time Malaysia had massive influence from both India and China and I've already made a video over the Chinese impact on Southeast Asia since antiquity and the influence is seen in language culture religion and genetics and might be a subject I discuss in the future with most of the direct contact being between south indian Dravidians rather than the north the malay identity and nations slowly developed over thousands of years with one of the most defining factors being the spread of Islam to the region around the 1300s although Islamic Arab traders had been visiting the region since the seventh century AD and pre-islamic Arabs have been arriving even before that the previous religions of the Malays mostly Hinduism Buddhism and traditional religions quickly went extinct although their influence is still felt in the cultural practices of Malays even to this day and keep in mind the Malays being one of the most removed Islamic peoples from the Islamic homeland but geographically culturally are not quite as conservative as those in the Middle East even though by law all ethnic Malays must be adherents of the Sunni Islamic faith they are far less strict than many other Islamic nations although this has changed a bit in more recent years with many leaning towards the more fundamentalist practices seen in parts of Indonesia one of the biggest upheavals in the Malaysian history was the encroachment by the European powers where they're actually being a plethora of groups to have held territory Malaysia chronologically the Portuguese Dutch and British and their influence can be seen in the mana mullet language as well as certain cultural aspects with Malaysia proper eventually being absorbed by the British while at the Malay inhabited areas of Indonesia went to the Dutch the label of Malay is actually a rather fluid one as far as centralized ethnicities go as due to the extremely high degree of migration to and from Malay territory their ancestors are quite heterogeneous as actual ethnic Malays may additionally have Arab Chinese Indian European Iceland or especially Indonesian heritage with around 10 to 20 percent of Malays in Malaysia having some recent ancestry from Indonesian migrants mostly Javanese Sachi knees or Sundanese after as little as a generation or two these groups eventually become completely assimilated into the Malay population and are no longer considered at different people by the government or other citizens however the term Malaysian can be used for any citizen of Malaysia who may be of Chinese Indian ormaline heritage or may belong to the other indigenous groups such as the ostians of the interior while in the eastern half the country there are many other Austronesian - senate peoples with a highly divergent cultures such as the bagua they act or a multitude of others and may practice Islam Christianity or their indigenous tribal religions this is a map of what is known as the Malay world not to be confused with Greater Malaysia which is often just used for the entirety of the Austronesian speaking world while the malay world specifically refers to malaysia and all malay inhabited areas of the surrounding regions even though in large parts of malaysia itself Malays are only a small minority due to massive amounts of immigration from China India and elsewhere now due to their involvement with various European colonial powers the Malays have been scattered all around the world similar to the distribution of tamos with there being a community in South Asia known as the Sri Lankan Malays who aren't really Malaysian a group in Australia known as the Coco's male who aren't really Malaysian cape Malays in South Africa who again on exactly Malaysian and Singaporean Malays who aren't actually well Singaporean Malays are actually more Malaysian than any of the previous groups as we'll go over you also have the Kris Tang a Christian mixed-race Creole people of Malay Portuguese Indian Dutch and or other ancestry this character at the country who speak a creolized form of Portuguese mixed with Malaysian although only numbering in the tens of thousands across the country but I'll be saving that for an upcoming video on arrays and Creole groups in Asia similar to Arabs the Chinese or various Indian peoples the Malays are more of a pan-ethnic group based off shared culture language and religion rather than an actual centralized atomicity that share large degree of ancestry with the Javanese in Indonesia being a good contrast to this the various Malay groups today are mostly the result of the assimilation of local populations rather than the result of mass settlement from the Sumatran or peninsula Malays for instance there are also very large numbers of Malays along the coast of Borneo especially in the small country of Brunei situated right in eastern another former British territory which almost joined Malaysia but decided to become an attendant although officially around sixty to seventy percent of the country identifies as ethnically Malay the Brunei and Malays are mostly the result of assimilated natives of Borneo such as the cat assigns a bonds and day act with this also being true of many of the self-identified Malays Sabah Sarawak and West Kalimantan and Indonesia and southern Thailand ethnic Malays straight up make up a majority in many southern provinces near the border with Malaysia which has led to some issues of ethnic separatism in recent years with so Malays being more heavily integrated into Thai society than others nearby and Indonesia although actual ethnic Malays are only a small percentage of the population due to their very influential historical position in the society a Malay dialect heavily influenced by local languages known as Indonesian has become one of the most widespread languages in the country with Malay and Indonesian being two dialects of the same language although other languages of Indonesia such as Javanese Balinese or Sigma T's are not mutually intelligible the but how we are a unique people group that are the result of a fusion of all these different Indonesian ethnic groups with minor foreign impact from the Arabs Indians Chinese Portuguese and Dutch who are located in Jakarta formerly known as Batavia which is where their name derives in Singapore the vast majority of the population is an immigrant origin from the past couple centuries and even though the island originally known as pulau jeong was first inhabited by the leis they are now only a moderately sized minority although the malay label also includes other islamic Austronesian two-sentence so Singaporean Malays are mostly Malay I'll be it with a strong Javanese Sundanese influence all the other diaspora groups mentioned earlier are the result of the Dutch or British bringing a small number of workers from the Malay Archipelago to their overseas colonies and over time the plethora of different Austronesian groups gradually intermixed and became one people while also heavily intermixing with the local population as well for instance the quarter million Cape Malays in South Africa also have moderate amounts of European African and South Asian ancestry but are united under their common Austronesian and Islamic heritage and Sri Lankan Malays have large amounts of ancestry from native Sri Lankan groups like the sonali's or tamos although there are only around 50,000 remaining including the Malay population in Malaysia Indonesia Thailand Singapore Brunei in the overseas diaspora there are around 36 million ethnic Malays worldwide although the fluid nature of the Millea identity does complicate this a bit so in conclusion the Malays are one of the most fascinating tribes of the Far East who have a long history of interaction with many different ancient civilisations and great empires so go and let me know your thoughts on the Malays as a people and the history of Malaysia and for today's poll tell me which Malaysian diaspora or overseas group is of the most interest to you and as always thanks for watching everyone this has been Mason and I'll see you next time bye.
