"Malays still look to the palace and the government for their salvation, non-Malays depend more upon themselves, their hard work and wits. The result? Non-Malays are succesful economically while Malays have only their royal titles and court fineries to show off on sultan's birthdays. Turns out that those exalted titles and honorifics could also be had (and more easily too!) through economic favors.
Cultural values can change, many non-Malays today are also aspiring Malay nights wannabes, willingly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars bribing royal courtiers in order to secure these fancy titles and the chance to put on those ornate Malay court attires."
-M. Bakri Musa
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