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Feb. 10 becoming assimilated by the country.
They want to stand apart and resist educational
processes that would lead to them merging
with the rest of the population. They look
down on the Malayas and rather picture
themselves in the role of a colonial power
as the English in Australia. They produce
unrest by calling attention to the fact that
many Chinese work hard and yet have
a poor existence, yet "they", a term not well
defined work short hours and lease big
shiny black cars. They begin with the young
children and the process of indoctrination
of hatred goes on through their schools.
Those who look promising as leaders
are picked and soon they have aggressive
aggressive, active supports of Chinese Communism.
Actually, Dickson says the Chinese are well
off. Recently, during the Brunei revolt,
they locked up a few for security reasons,
just as Singapore has done.
The ethnic groups and religions here
seem to be as in Malaya. There are Malayas,
Chinese, a few Indians and English. Religions
are Muslim, Christianity, Animism,
Animism centers around the rice paddy.
About 1/3 of the people are Dayaks, the first
descendants of the aborigines that first came to
Borneo. These are mostly hunting and food
gathering people but they now have paddies and
fill out with hunting. They live in long
communal houses and are pagan. The
sea Dayaks engage in fishing.
Dickson commented on the uprising in
Brunei, a rich country with so much revenue