aug 13, 1976 - “Gone Overseas” (1976) ‒ Lee Geok Lan [Poetry]
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The National Language Act and the NEP introduced in 1963 and 1971 respectively caused many non-bumiputeras to migrate overseas because they see these policies as examples of institutionalised racism in the country and not as efforts to reconstruct society through poverty eradication and cultivating a sense of national identity (Faridah & Quayum, 2003)._____________________
Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf & Quayum, M. (2003). Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women’s Writing in English, 1940s - 1990s. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM
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aug 13, 1976
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~ 49 years ago