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Re: Ding Wen's interview



On Feb 9, 10:27 pm, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:

> Malay refers to religion. Malaysian to geography.

Malay(s) refers to an ethic group of people (like south americans they
have the Incas) resident mainly in south east asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_people

The religion of the Malay people is Islam (well, at least 99% I
believe).

Malaysian refers to the citizen of Malaysia (Malaysia is a country in
South East Asia), of the population is made up of a majority of
Malays.

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Ding Wen's is born in Malaysia (well, I think he is !), with his
ancestors from China, and now living in Singapore.

He's ethnically Chinese, with Malaysian citizenship. Hence, he is a
Malaysian Chinese (just like chinese living in America are called
American Chinese).

:)