Singapore is an enclave that emerged because of multiculturalism in Malaya caused by mass immigration from China, actually.
replyIt would be more appropriate to say it emerged (as a sovereign nation) because of anti-multiculturalism, to be perfectly clear. Otherwise, it would still be a part of Malaysia.
replyIn the 60s the Chinese diaspora in SEAsia experienced violence by locals who didn’t like the success of the Chinese. This happened mostly in Indonesia Burma and Malaysia and not so much in the Philippine islands.
replyMalaysia in particular instituted pretty harsh laws to make Chinese suppress their Chinese identity and also curtailed their economic potential by implementing in practice expropriation and barring the Chinese from certain sectors of the economy.
So it emerged not because of multiculturalism but because they were being virtually locked out of the Malaysian economy.
> In the 60s the Chinese diaspora in SEAsia experienced violence by locals who didn’t like the success of the Chinese.
replyI’m not super familiar with Chinese history, but this jumped out at me. How were other countries jealous of Chinese people during the decade of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution? Famine, death, destruction, etc. Am I misunderstanding something?
I was referring to the Chinese diaspora who had left China over decades and even centuries -they had become successful in SEAsia and were often responsible for commercial progress in those places. The sixties were times of conflict all over the world and in SEAsia the Chinese diaspora in those countries found themselves the targets of the frustration of “natives”. I say natives though the Chinese diaspora was born and raised in those countries but were easily identified as being “foreign” in those places.
replyIt means success of ethnic Chinese in South East Asia. In Malaysia, Thailand, etc or even Indonesia, ethnic Chinese tend to be more successful in business circles compared to 'locals'.
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