{"id":5014,"date":"2005-02-08T21:25:29","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T21:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5014"},"modified":"2021-06-13T18:20:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T18:20:21","slug":"interracial-marriage-blossoms-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2005\/02\/08\/interracial-marriage-blossoms-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Interracial marriage blossoms in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interracial marriage blossoms in Malaysia<\/a>
\nThe Christian Science Monitor
\nBy Michael Switow<\/p>\n

About 100 yards from the headquarters of Gunung Mulu National Park – a rain forest preserve famous for huge caves, massive bat colonies, and jungle trekking – the park receptionist spots me walking toward the building.<\/p>\n

She takes one look at the black pig grease on my face – smeared over my eyes, across my cheeks, all over the forehead, on my nose, and even the ears – and then doubles over with laughter.<\/p>\n

She doesn’t have to ask. It’s obvious: I have been to a village wedding, the marriage between Freda Ugum, a woman of the Melanau ethnic group who is in her mid-20s, and Kuah Hock Jun, a 30-something Chinese groom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An interesting story, which brings forward a few thoughts. Experience tells me that there are plenty of kneejerk “multi-culturalist” trust-fund babies and professional students who will view this increase in “interracial” marriage with much hand-wringing and five thousand word diatribes about preserving “cultural integrity” and other dishonest “racialist” attempts at thwarting the free-will of others under the guise of being the “protector” (read: “great white protector”) of all the world’s minority populations from the evil West.<\/p>\n

Forgive me for rambling, but twelve years of “interracial” marriage and hearing this crap from the Left, Right and la-la land has left me a bit less than tolerant of those who seek to thwart “interracial” marriage in the name of “cultural integrity.” Wait for it – it is<\/u> coming. It always does…<\/p>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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