Field notes, v1753
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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