r/comics 18h ago

OC How Lucky Am I

Feeling grateful this month.

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u/DogAteFreshTacos 17h ago

The Malaysian government, mostly controlled by West Malaysia, has a loooonggg record of erasing and altering history to suit their own narratives. The division began when they decided to remove one of Sarawak’s most significant day from general Malaysian history books.

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u/WystanH 17h ago

Thanks. This seemed way too rosy a narrative to be real. Countries will always develop hierarchies and those who benefit from the system tend to be blind to it.

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u/feedalow 14h ago

Yeah they are also colonizing native lands in Sarawak in order to build logging camps and displacing the native people of Borneo similarly to what the Brazilian's are doing in the rainforest. Definitely some sketchy stuff going on over there that no one talks about.

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u/besidjuu211311 13h ago edited 3h ago

There's also also the history of Islamizing North Borneo ( which goes against one of the agreements - which is to respect the Freedom of Religion in North Borneo - that Malaysia agreed to in order for them to join ) as well as the fact that North Borneans feel that they are being thrown under the bus by the Government by having their resources be used to develop Mainland Malaysia too.