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supervision of business and political life. Having dominated the intermediate levels of economic life in the Malaysia area for centuries, the Chinese fear they will be required to take second place, both in business and in government.

Then there is the potentially explosive question of private Chinese schools in Southeast Asia which have been largely, if not wholly, oriented toward Chinese cultural traditions. Repeated efforts by the Malayan and Singapore governments in recent years to orient pupils in these schools toward a national Malayan image of loyalty have been bitterly resisted and branded by Chinese leaders as attempts to “destroy” Chinese culture. Communist opposition to Malaysia thus neatly dovetails with a desire for Chinese “cultural” autonomy and also with the lingering resentment of the Chinese throughout Malaysia over alleged discrimination against them in government employment.

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supervision of business and political life. Having dominated the intermediate levels of economic life in the Malaysia area for centuries, the Chinese fear they will be required to take second place, both in business and in government.

Then there is the potentially explosive question of private Chinese schools in Southeast Asia which have been largely, if not wholly, oriented toward Chinese cultural traditions. Repeated efforts by the Malayan and Singapore governments in recent years to orient pupils in these schools toward a national Malayan image of loyalty have been bitterly resisted and branded by Chinese leaders as attempts to “destroy” Chinese culture. Communist opposition to Malaysia thus neatly dovetails with a desire for Chinese “cultural” autonomy and also with the lingering resentment of the Chinese throughout Malaysia over alleged discrimination against them in government employment.