Re: The strange phenomenon of mixed marriages in the Malay community, and repercussio
Thanks for dredging out old memories, sigh!. Great days.
Family close to where I lived had 8 kids. second kid married a Malay girl. Good looking, carries herself well, speaks well. Not demanding on the religion. Kids came out good looking and carried her features. Every other male siblings plus the females siblings' husbands and even the parents had wished they all married Malay chicks. The in-laws treated her well. The trouble is no one else had the guts to cross the rubicon. Not just the family but the whole neighbourhood had their own regrets.
Sometimes in life, and you only have one shot, just for it.
Thanks for dredging out old memories, sigh!. Great days.
Family close to where I lived had 8 kids. second kid married a Malay girl. Good looking, carries herself well, speaks well. Not demanding on the religion. Kids came out good looking and carried her features. Every other male siblings plus the females siblings' husbands and even the parents had wished they all married Malay chicks. The in-laws treated her well. The trouble is no one else had the guts to cross the rubicon. Not just the family but the whole neighbourhood had their own regrets.
Sometimes in life, and you only have one shot, just for it.
I can speak from personal experience. I had a Malay girlfriend. The relationship lasted about 8 months. Her previous boyfriend was a non Malay too.
I asked her why she had two non Malay non muslim boyfriends in a row and the answer was that she considered her own kind to be lazy and lacking ambition. "Of course there are exceptions" she admitted but she insisted the generalisation was accurate.
She also said that Malay men invariably evoke Islam in order to try to gain the upper hand in the relationship.
Many years have passed and she is now happily married to a Chinese Singaporean. They have 2 children.