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Wholegrain I read your posts about heterogeneous origin of Malay elites in Malaysia. But isn't this a common factor in all societies? Invading "barbarians", more often than not nomads, become king and landed aristocracy and they eventually become the ruling elite? If a society is small and less densely populated, the indigenous population even loose their language and culture to the invaders. But if the population is sufficiently large and densely populated, the invaders loose their own culture and language and become assimilated. But in both cases some traces remain, whether it is language, culture or genetic. So isn't Malays in Malaysia following the same pattern?
The other thing I noticed is that Muslims happen to be most mixed breed people on earth, specially the ruling elite in any Muslim society. There were 2-3 dominant Muslim invading "barbarian" ethnic groups:
1. Arabs (land based and maritime migration)
2. proto-Turkics (land based migration)
3. Mongols (land based migration)
A Muslim elite in any country will have significant influence with one or more of above groups, with varying degrees of indigenous blood.
But regardless of genetic origin, a particular Muslim elite will rally around their local religious sect and local culture and language to unite the masses. Isn't this happening in Malaysia, just like in other places?
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al-Hasani you may find this thread interesting.