http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_people

Wikipedia said got 4.3 million of them in Malaysia but I never encounter any of them before. Wikipedia make mistake or what?

This post has been edited by Varezart: May 7 2015, 12:56 PM

I see Malaysian Malay, Malaysian Chinese, Malaysian Iban, Malaysian Kadazan but never come across Malaysian Javanese.

So they no longer Javanese, but is ethnic Malay? Javanese assimilate as Malay?

So those ethnic Javanese all assimilate into ethnic Malay?

If they already assimilate into Malay, does that mean even if a person consider himself or herself as Malay, he or she wouldn't know if there is Javanese blood in them?


This post has been edited by Varezart: May 7 2015, 01:21 PM

When Malay people in Malaysia claim themselves as Malay, do they mean Malay as in ethnic or race?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay

Yes, there is difference between ethnic Malay and Malay race.

Hmm.. make sense. If it's both it mean ethnically, Malaysian Javanese has throw away their ethnic Javanese identity but instead, choose to assimilate into ethnic Malay identity.

Perhaps in the future, younger generation of Malay will never know if one of their ancestor is ethnic Javanese.

Do you have any idea how many percentage of Malaysia population consists of ethnic Malays, Boyanese, Achinese, Javanese, Bugis, Balinese before they all assimilate into ethnic Malay? Do we have census for that?

If a Javanese with Indonesia nationality want to change his nationality to Malaysian, does he need to change his ethnicity from Javanese to Malay too?

This post has been edited by Varezart: May 7 2015, 05:56 PM

But Sabak Bernam and Sungai Besar total population is not even close to 1 million. Wikipedia said got 4.3 million Javanese in Malaysia. Where are the other come from?

This post has been edited by Varezart: May 7 2015, 06:48 PM

So we don't know how many percentage or how common it is Malay people today has Javanese ancestry?

This post has been edited by Varezart: May 7 2015, 07:04 PM

Because I was just wondering with ethnic Javanese in Malaysia getting assimilated into Malay ethnicity, how did the wikipedia manage to get the population of ethnic Javanese in Malaysia which is 4.3 million figure? IF Javanese got assimilated as Malay ethnicity, shouldn't their ethnicity in Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara also change to Malay ethnicity? How did wikipedia get their information?

This post has been edited by Varezart: May 7 2015, 09:36 PM

What about your mother? Your own race and ethnic is what?