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Traditional_Bell7883 143 points 10 hours ago
Yeah, they use "bumi" as a shortform for "bumiputera" (also spelled "bumiputra") which literally means "princes of the soil", as though they were the indigenous people.
But that's false. They have essentially usurped the rightful place of the truly indigenous people, the Orang Asli, in a way not very different from Australia and the Aborogines. The Malays originated from, guess where .... Southern China!
https://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/01/21/the-origins-of-the-malays/