CHAPTER 44: MALAY ETHNIC IDENTITY AND CULTURE IN MULTICULTURAL SINGAPORE

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Data

• Multicultural Identity

• Markers of Malay Identity — Strengths in Some Aspects, and Dilution in Others

• Differences in Generational Perceptions of Malayness

• Strong Sense of Malayness but Evidence of Some Cosmopolitan/Globalized Identity

• Malay Identity in Relation to Multiculturalism and Other Ethnic Groups

• Interethnic Understanding of Malayness/Engagement with Malayness

• The Fluid and Dynamic Nature of Malay identity

• References