Habitual tardiness, lazy attitudes, being unfaithful — all painful stereotypes painted on the Malay community that still remain prominent despite the amount of Racial Harmony lessons crammed down our throats since young.
Since you can’t completely eradicate the remnants of hackneyed clichés about a whole race, you might as well own it. With a proper dollop of humour, of course.
Thus, the emergence of #NotAllMalays, which has been trending on Twitter since last week. Malay folks are populating Twitter with hilarious jokes regarding their stereotypes by exaggerating them to the point of parody:
The idea of #NotAllMalays isn’t exactly recent though — it’s appeared as early as September last year:
Still, #NotAllMalays is pretty funny — until someone non-Malay takes it up and contributes their own joke. Remember, it’s not racist if you’re making fun of your own race. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
