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Look How Racist they Are....
And Don't call your self "truly asia" if U R still Racist!!!
The migration of Indians, mainly Tamils and Telugus, to Malaysia started in the second half of the 19th century, primarily as indentured laborers, who were brought by the British to work on plantations, roads, railway lines and ports.
The second wave of Indians came as auxiliaries, mostly from North India, as part of the police force and security services. About the same time also came Indians from Kerala and Sri Lankan Tamils from Jaffna to work as clerks and subordinate civil servants. The third stream of immigrants came as traders, most predominant among these were the Chettiars, a South Indian moneylending caste.
The latest wave of Indian immigration started toward the end of the last century when Malaysia, like its neighbor Singapore, began looking at India as a source for knowledge economy professionals. Starting in the 1970s, Malaysia began a transition to an industrialised economy, aided by its petroleum boom. In later decades, as the world economy globalized, Malaysia sought to become a services hub and develop a knowledge-based economy. Indians in the IT sector were especially sought after. Malaysia even formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding with India on manpower recruitment on a contract basis in March 2005.
Upadhyay and Mishra are just two examples among the thousands of Indian knowledge economy workers who work in Kuala Lumpur's IT district, Cyberjaya.
"I was actually planning to immigrate to New Zealand, but when I got an opportunity to work in Malaysia, I jumped at the offer," says Upadhyay, an engineer-MBA who works with an instructional design firm. He was working in Delhi with a multinational company before moving to Malaysia three years ago. He lives in a condo, drives a second hand car and leads a comfortable life.
Mishra who works for an Indian call centre as a hardware support engineer also came around the same time as Upadhyay. They met at Cyberjaya and became friends in an alien country. Mishra shares a condo and a newly bought car with his Malaysian Chinese girlfriend. "I was looking for an overseas posting and my company transferred me to Malaysia. It was a cool offer and I took it," he says cheerfully.
Though IT professionals like Upadhyay and Mishra lead isolated lives, mostly among the expat community, some of them have been attracted to local Chinese women.
"When cupid strikes it does not see the color of your skin," says Vinita Upadhyay, who is close to the couple.
So, will Mishra tie the knot with his girlfriend? "They are committed but Amit's family might have problems," says Vinita.
Like Mishra, Satish Shetty, 34,a Maharashtrian R&D manager with a Malaysian IT company, too has a local girlfriend. "I was working with an IT firm in Brunei when I met my Malaysian girlfriend," says Shetty. "Both of us were in an alien country and loneliness drove us toward each other. We fell in love and I decided to follow her to Malaysia."
"We plan to get married soon," he says, a gentle smile playing on his lips.
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