Conclusion to the Classification and Criteria of the Malay Images
Each colonial official had their emphasis in evaluation and the Malays are mostly not given a full evaluation as a people and culture. Each colonial official evaluates in accordance to their needs, being commerce, effective administration and penetration of Christianity, and adoption of British culture to combat bad character, attain progress and increase revenue.
It has been analysed that all three colonial officials evaluate the Malays based upon their willingness to accept British intervention in the Malay States on the Malay Peninsula. They also project their own
insecurities upon the Malay people, for example, portraying the Malays to be settlers and evil towards the indigenous people just like them who are settlers on the England, and wicked to the indigenous people of Great Britain, the Welsh, Irish, and Scots. Their inferiority complex was disguised as superiority complex.
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malay slavery
With regards to slavery, an institution ingrained in the Malay culture since
immemorial; debt-slavery is given emphasis as it is the peculiarity of the Malay people.
However, this is considered an evil are the creditor are commonly exploitive and
abusive in all perspectives. Francis Light (1740–1794) had Batak slaves and Malay
debt-slaves he wrote as Malay Bonds, he sought the Malay debt-slaves to be freed;
whilst Stamford Raffles (1781–1826) and Frank Swettenham (1850–1946) tried to
abolish debt-slavery and replace it with indentured labour, showcasing their reason
and morality for every individual to be free and not treated as property.
bias towards their Collective Malay Images
Emphasis is given mainly to the negative characters of the Malays; for Francis Light the Malays are inherently evil, while for Stamford Raffles the evil character of the Malays are resulted from oppression of the Dutch and Islam; and for Frank Swettenham (1850–1946) the Malays are evil because they are heathens.
This exhibitstheir collective inner thoughts that those who are not Christians are evil and only Jesus
Christ is the Lord and Saviour to mankind. Yet, their explanations are marred with capitalism tendencies showcased by how they revel in the natural resources found in the Malay peninsula and in the abundance of edible natural resources which is lacking in Britain. They have exhibited biased views in favour the British agenda and propagation, they have commited the logical fallacy of overgeneralisation and their writngs and thoughts are a highly subjective perception to which those Malays, and their elements of evaluation that aligns with the British are written in a positive light and vice versa.
The Malay Images of the colonial officials differ from how the Malays identify
themselves.
