In fact, this fact about malaysian-chinese always making insulting remarks and derisory remarks about s'poreans and s'pore as a country is already true even in the mid 1980s.
In the mid to late 1980s, although I'm a s'pore-born s'porean I stayed in a school hostel becos my parents were working overseas, IN that school hostel the hostelites were 70% malaysian-chinese, and the remaining 30% were other nationalities students such as taiwanese, indonesian-chinese, brunei-chinese, thais etc.
I remembered clearly in the 1986 Hotel New World collapse, the malaysian-chinese hostelites actually cheered, they also made callous remarks on our NATIONAL DAY parade celebrations in Aug 9 whereas the other Taiwanese, Indonesian-chinese, Brunei-chinese hostelites had never made any rude callous remarks on s'pore.
I remembered the malaysian-chinese hostelites were always happy and cheered whenever something disastrous happened to s'pore. They are always happy whenever got news of s'pore fails or s'porean trips in any thing.
I always wondered then if you malaysian-chinese so dislike s'pore, then what for you come to s'pore to study?!
Hence even in the mid-late 1980s I had already experienced 1st-hand on how ungrateful the malaysian-chinese are and they really have NO FOND FEELINGS for s'porean-chinese.
Of course I'm not saying 100% of all malaysian-chinese behaved this way. But at least the vast majority of malaysian-chinese behaved this way. It is really true that the vast majority of malaysian-chinese are happy if s'poreans/spore fails and their malaysia succeed and the malaysian-chinese DO NOT have fond feelings and sentiments for s'porean-chinese.
