This has led to minorities feeling abandoned and, in the case of many lower-caste and lower class Tamils, the sense that they are discriminated against. Malays have special provisions in education, business, and politics in Malaysia, as part of what is known as the Bumiputra (Sons of the Soil) policy. Post-independence, the Malaysian Government has sought to return rights to its indigenous people, the Malays, by instituting a series of policies akin to affirmative action. They are typically descendants of Tamil coolies and labourers brought to the country by the British to work on Malaysia’s rubber plantations. Malaysia has a sizeable South-Asian minority, 90% of whom are Tamil. She is British, but the majority of artists who write and perform hip-hop in this classical language are Malaysian.
M.I.A, the world’s most celebrated Tamil rapper, uses modern Tamil melodies and rhythms in her work, but does not actually rap in Tamil.
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