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Orang Asli - The hidden people of Malaysia
We made news again.
OO’s community work was singled out by writer Sheila Rahman last week and after a short ping pong of emails, our blog “Take The Path Less Ordinary” is featured in Malay Mail today.
Started out as a simple four-page newspaper with light news and advertisements for Europeans in Kuala Lumpur in 1896, today, Malay Mail has a string of journalism awards decorating its 100 over years of history. Read more …
The story nailed it with an interesting note - “Truth is, most of us know very little about our own, almost invisible people”.
It says that while most could name at least five Native American tribes (Apache, Cherokee, Mohican, Sioux and Blackfeet), very few Malaysians could name Orang Asli tribes living in our country’s backyard. Worst still, we believe that 99% of adults and kids in Malaysia have never stepped into the rainforest - apart from touristy ones - in their lives, much less come face to face with an Orang Asli. There’s a befitting Malaysian proverb for such case. It goes like this …
Kuman di seberang laut nampak
gajah di depan mata tak nampak
… which means something like this: One can see germs across the sea but fail to see an elephant standing in front.
Thanks Sheila for putting our community work in limelight.
OO’s community work was singled out by writer Sheila Rahman last week and after a short ping pong of emails, our blog “Take The Path Less Ordinary” is featured in Malay Mail today.
Started out as a simple four-page newspaper with light news and advertisements for Europeans in Kuala Lumpur in 1896, today, Malay Mail has a string of journalism awards decorating its 100 over years of history. Read more …The story nailed it with an interesting note - “Truth is, most of us know very little about our own, almost invisible people”.
It says that while most could name at least five Native American tribes (Apache, Cherokee, Mohican, Sioux and Blackfeet), very few Malaysians could name Orang Asli tribes living in our country’s backyard. Worst still, we believe that 99% of adults and kids in Malaysia have never stepped into the rainforest - apart from touristy ones - in their lives, much less come face to face with an Orang Asli. There’s a befitting Malaysian proverb for such case. It goes like this …
Kuman di seberang laut nampak
gajah di depan mata tak nampak
… which means something like this: One can see germs across the sea but fail to see an elephant standing in front.
Thanks Sheila for putting our community work in limelight.
Posted: July 13th, 2008 under Heritage - Multiculturalism, Jungle travel tales & tips.
Tags: Malaysian, Orang Asli, rainforest