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Fact 7: As if the place-name corruption was not enough, the Siamese
forced the Malays to disown their ethnic identity. The Malays are now
"Thai Muslims"; their Malay language is now called Yawi (which is
actually nothing more than yet another Siamese corruption of the Malay
word Jawi, meaning writing in the Arabic script); Malay names are
replaced with weird sounding instantly-concocted Siamese names; and so
on and so forth. Friends, how would YOU feel if tomorrow you wake up
bearing a weird sounding name (imposed on you), where your race does not
officially exist and your hometown name metamorphosed into some
laughable alien sound? Would you take it sitting down? Would George Bush
of Washington be amenable to being called Georgi Bushev of Washingrad?
Of course not. Obviously, Thaksin Shinawatra won't be happy being called
Amitabh Shinawalla.
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